They were "running" for four years, presenting white
characters on a blue screen and awaiting valuable input
from a SysAdmin's cowboy boot.

The secret to M$ happiness is Intermatic(TM) ubertimers,
configured to power cycle the system every two hours.

If you cannot afford (or your management refuses to pay
for) Intermatic(TM) ubertimers, you can achieve the same
effect with a 386, some RS-232C serial ports, some relays,
some Linux and some crontabs.  If serial ports and relays
scare you, X10 might be right up your alley.

"What EXACTLY does that box named 'cyclic' do, anyway?"


D

* On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:35:33AM -0700, Eric Barendt wrote:
> Have you guys seen that microsoft commercial with the nt servers running merrily along? What they don't tell you is that 2 hours after the site went live, the servers all blue screened :)
> 
> Eric
> 
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:25:48AM -0700, Carl Parrish wrote:
> > 
> > >I think the drywaller was a BOFH at least secretly and should be
> > >immortalized in the BOFH hall of fame.
> > >
> > >Damn - all that time and still running...must have been running WINNT  ;-)
> > >
> > >Craig
> > >
> > ROTFLMAO - oh yeah only a WINNT box could possibly be running for four
> > *years* without a reboot. lol
> > Def a BOFH.
> > 
> > Carl Parrish