[LOGic] More on remote operation

[K0DAN]

I'd vote "technical foul" too!

But then when you said "not running Windows", that kind of negated any 
bargaining power you had! I'm joined-at-the-hip with Windows, but not cuz 
I'm in love with it.

Hence all my rambling about warm/cold/hard boot.

73

dan
k0dan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mel Martin" <ve2dc at videotron.ca>
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Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [LOGic] More on remote operation


> 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&#39;s and the rig that run 24/7 and have for 
>> years.... at work I have 18 or so PC&#39;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&#39;s that do get shut off , the hard drives do not like 
>> to sit not spinning for very long...
>>
>> just my .02 worth
>>
>> Dan N8DCJ
>>DC
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