[LOGic] More on remote operation

[Mel Martin]

AT the risk of wandering a little off subject Dan.

Back in the 90's when I was responsible (along with another Ham) for the 
servers for one of the faculties at McGill University, we had a bet 
going with another faculty as to who could keep their servers up and 
running uninterrupted for the longest time. BTW, the dean was aware and 
probably had a few bucks riding on the outcome. We were past 2 years 
(These servers were NOT running Windows) and counting when our luck ran 
out. A 550V building transformer had to be replaced and the building 
power was shut down over the weekend. When we restarted the computers on 
Monday morning, 3 of 12 servers would not boot! BTW the bet only applied 
to the main file servers (3 or 4 machines). We lost but tried to claim a 
technical foul ;-)

Dan Bookwalter wrote:
> at home I have 2 pc's and the rig that run 24/7 and have for years.... at work I have 18 or so PC's in the lab that pretty much run 24/7 and all through the plant there are probably 4-500 machines always on and we have never had a fire.... the biggest problem we have is with the few pc's that do get shut off , the hard drives do not like to sit not spinning for very long...
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> just my .02 worth
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> Dan N8DCJ
>DC