Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:07:02 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using samba for backups Message-ID: <20040314120702.GB9984@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20040313104947.14d6d920@pop.face2interface.com> References: <6.0.0.22.0.20040309174210.21cd7918@pop.face2interface.com> <200403131404.42487.anubis357@optusnet.com.au> <6.0.0.22.0.20040313104947.14d6d920@pop.face2interface.com>
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On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 07:32:51PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
> There was an article around a couple of years ago I think about some=20
> disgruntled MS employee who put code into W95 to make it crash after 41=
=20
> days or something.The funny part of course was how nobody interviewed cou=
ld=20
> even imagine a 95 box staying up that long.
I don't think there was deliberate sabotage. It was a programming
error that led to some early versions of NT4 having a counter
roll-over every 42 days, causing the system to crash. The greatest
irony of all was that Microsoft were touting NT4 at the time as a
"Unix killer" and promising that five-nines uptimes could be achieved,
at the same time as officially advising all users to reboot their
systems every 30-something days. Somebody calculated that meant that
NT4 would have to be able reboot in well under a minute...
Cheers,
Matthew
Note: followup to freebsd-chat, as this is getting off-topic.
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