From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Feb 6 17:13:55 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5553EEA69C for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2018 17:13:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-cmomta01.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "Client", Issuer "CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7CCE1748BC for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2018 17:13:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from raspberrypi.bildanet.com ([65.186.67.174]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id j6gPerUd7Qyfvj6gTeXIaq; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:05:29 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.143] by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1ej6gP-0002cX-L3 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:05:25 +0000 Subject: Re: Response to Meltdown and Spectre To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <23154.11945.856955.523027@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <5A726B60.7040606@gmail.com> <92120E50-19A7-4A44-90DF-505243D77259@kreme.com> <044e62f7-69ca-71fe-34a8-5c5cafc06f08@yahoo.com> <0520dd84-c00c-fbf2-da1c-f6ff4c63739d@yahoo.com> <20180203224612.GA10517@milliways.localdomain> <51178.108.68.160.114.1517699531.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <53029.108.68.160.114.1517707316.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <20180205143720.d4d98011.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Baho Utot Message-ID: <4f629e22-658b-93a0-0ed3-d553dcd24430@columbus.rr.com> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 12:05:20 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfOiM6eFNUopXsgV4Y14L5D4ym1oBgj5m2sN1m9RLRKyrplJIi2nMnZYmVDWNSNREIHcrnekbomB16f/wtddQEPF+8UzpPYWnnM57NrvcjcMXDHdFq18P b1V67G49WZzWLRV34fEqMBnqmOfaexsBw4hXZAwhJn1Xl7w1QwL9TcvMBttyqSeiBFvCvlAusfuhOofuKiPqcKlfFVZD3H3+aZ0= X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:13:56 -0000 On 2/6/2018 10:16 AM, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > On 2018-02-06 01:06, Chris Hill wrote: >> On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Polytropon wrote: >> >>> ...On the other hand, I know many businesses where rebooting servers >>> is quite common ("Windows"-based installations, of course), which if >>> often due to software problems, wrongly configured hardware, broken >>> hardware, or missing technical skills of the "professional >>> consultants" and "solution experts"... >> >> Off topic here, for a change. At the place where I worked during the >> year 2000, a sysadmin told me it was standard that they would reboot >> the servers (Windows monoculture, even back then) every Friday after >> close of business. When I asked him why, he said it was "best >> practice." And if anything went wrong, they had the weekend to fix it >> :^\ > > Are you seriously saying that their Windows servers stayed up ALL WEEK > without a reboot? Yes it happens, get out of the gutter > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"