From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 14 22:54:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gizmo.internode.com.au (gizmo.internode.com.au [192.83.231.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 618D914F84 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 22:54:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from newton@gizmo.internode.com.au) Received: (from newton@localhost) by gizmo.internode.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA02764; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 17:01:15 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from newton) Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 17:01:15 +1030 From: Mark Newton To: Michael Bacarella Cc: Harold Gutch , Soren Schmidt , Brian Beattie , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT life spans [was: UDF] Message-ID: <20000115170115.E2610@internode.com.au> References: <20000114214234.A14486@foobar.franken.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://www.on.net/~newton/pgpkey.txt Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 06:53:57PM -0500, Michael Bacarella wrote: > ~18 work days per month, times 12 months per year. 10 minutes per day.. > 18 days/month * 12 months/year * 10 minutes/day = 2160 minutes/year > 2160 minutes / 60 minutes/hour = 36 hours/year > The average number of hours that a human being lives, if they live to 80 > is 691200 hours (GAH). > 19200 humans working with NT for a year, a single lifespan is lost waiting > for NT to reboot. (19200 * 36 = 691200) > Some other perspectives: > If 1,000,000 people use Windows NT for 1 year, 52 human lives are lost. > That's a human life per week! > 1,000,000 people using NT for 5 years = 260 lives. > I'll let the numbers speak for themselves about the TCO involved in > deploying Windows NT across your enterprise. The life insurance costs alone would be a killer :-) - mark -- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message