Re: uptime

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* Dimitri Maziuk (dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu) spake thusly:
> * Rino Mardo (rmardo@yahoo.com) spake thusly:
> > On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 01:45:41PM -0500 or thereabouts, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
...
> > > Hmm. We had an NT swerver with about 8 months uptime at work[n - 1].
> > > The only reson it got rebooted was because we bought a rack and had
> > > to switch the fscker off to put it in there. So it's not the OS, it's
> > > how you use it...
> > > 
> > so you mean you've never used your nt server at all hence the
> > unbelievable uptime?  don't get me wrong here i just can't believe the
> > figures
> 
> We didn't run luser apps on it, except Access (well, DAO, actually). Other 
> than that it was serving files 24/7. And it was NT _server_, not WS.

More to the point, that post triggerred a pet peeve of mine: winders can
be stable, when set up properly. Anyone who says (or implies) otherwise 
is clueless luser perpetrating FUD.

Winders, and the rest of MicroShit crapware is horrible - for many reasons. 
Uptime is not one of them.

Dima
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