From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Feb 16 17:13:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D75EC1134A for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:13:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26987; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:13:24 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd026895; Tue Feb 16 18:13:19 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA14285; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:13:12 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902170113.SAA14285@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD robustness To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 01:13:11 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jlemon@americantv.com, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36C9F695.6FE5CE8A@softweyr.com> from "Wes Peters" at Feb 16, 99 03:52:05 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I was hoping to get another 2 years out of it, barring hardware failures. > > > > Oh well. *sniff* > > > > At least it proves the robustness of the operating system, and I guess > > I'll take advantage of the downtime to load 3.1-RELEASE on it. > > And stick a gargantuan UPS on it, so it'll live through the next halon- > dump test. Right? ;^) You should be able to "hot plug" one of those ISA board UPS units, and hit the switch on the back. That should be enough to keep it up 10-15 minutes. If that's not enough, you should be able to plug it into a real UPS, since you'll have 10-15 minutes to do the deed. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message