From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 14 04:07:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 293EB16A4D0 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 04:07:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 640CC43D2D for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 04:07:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) i2EC73SP010641 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:07:03 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i2EC72H8010640; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:07:02 GMT (envelope-from matthew) Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:07:02 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: Marty Landman Message-ID: <20040314120702.GB9984@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Marty Landman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20040313104947.14d6d920@pop.face2interface.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040304, clamav-milter version 0.67j cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using samba for backups X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:07:10 -0000 --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAVErmdtESqEQa7a0RAljIAKCRoZSTpllmHt3i3I+QeStr1/D0fgCfU0w/ X+J7Lm1d59SOFHx0yG3Z330= =N6SQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI--