Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 14:34:58 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jack@xtalwind.net (jack) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <199704202134.OAA10247@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970420171504.19004A-100000@zeus.xtalwind.net> from "jack" at Apr 20, 97 05:25:42 pm
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> > Unless you are talking about NT 3.51, you're wrong: it does not need > > a reboot, just an undocumented call into an undocumented DLL. Microsoft > > Now isn't that handy? If you've got the time and inclination to reverse > engineer the damned thing you can make it do what you want, if not just > settle for what it gives you. Or you can just use their tools and their stacks and their software like you are supposed to do. The problem only occurs when you go and buy third party software from a third party who has not paid the piper, either through sweat or through licensing fees to MS. > > just likes to ask for reboots because their change flag doesn't have > > the necessary granularity to distinguish between "changes needing a > > reboot" and "simple changes" -- all they see are "changes". > > Now that makes it a real good choice to use as a critical server. :) It always errs on the side of caution, so it may be rebooted more often than needed, but it's no less stable for the decision. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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