i told mary about NT being tested for us in a nuclear control facility
and she said "god save us all!".
note that i've cc'ed mary on this message - she'll probably receive
it sometime _tomorrow_. guess what mail service they are running...
joe
ps. why the hell does microsoft need > 30 mail servers? for the same
reason that kaiser needs one fragile nt server per a couple hundred
users, i'd expect. so... m$'s 20,000 employees / 500 (generous)
accounts / server ~= 40 or 50 systems just for mail servers? <sigh>
joe
Joe Barrera writes:
> I looked at the uptime numbers for some of the Microsoft mail servers.
> The way the restart times are correlated (close in time, but with some
> skew) makes me believe that the machines were intentionally rebooted.
> For example:
>
> [D:\joebar\vc\uptime] uptime red-28-msg
> There are 38627 records in the System event log.
> 21d 10:53m Tue May 14 22:26:51 1996
> 36d 3:13m Thu Jun 20 01:40:09 1996
> 41d 20:48m Wed Jul 31 22:29:05 1996
> 81d 15:50m Mon Oct 21 14:19:44 1996
> 21d 6:29m Mon Nov 11 19:48:50 1996
> 105d 14:56m Tue Feb 25 10:45:43 1997
> 38d 12:48m Fri Apr 04 23:34:10 1997
> 34d 23:18m Fri May 09 23:52:57 1997
> 0:27m Sat May 10 00:20:28 1997
> 0:36m Sat May 10 00:56:38 1997
> 0:07m Sat May 10 01:04:18 1997
> 35d 21:44m Sat Jun 14 22:48:33 1997
> 0:06m Sat Jun 14 22:54:53 1997
> 4d 16:05m Thu Jun 19 15:00:07 1997
>
> [D:\joebar\vc\uptime] uptime red-29-msg
> There are 24688 records in the System event log.
> 8d 11:47m Tue May 14 22:26:57 1996
> 36d 3:13m Thu Jun 20 01:40:43 1996
> 42d 20:42m Thu Aug 01 22:22:53 1996
> 3d 14:55m Mon Aug 05 13:18:39 1996
> 78d 19:37m Wed Oct 23 08:56:19 1996
> 19d 13:01m Mon Nov 11 20:58:09 1996
> 112d 21:09m Tue Mar 04 18:07:42 1997
> 31d 5:26m Fri Apr 04 23:33:42 1997
> 34d 21:09m Fri May 09 21:43:20 1997
> 0:38m Fri May 09 22:22:05 1997
> 0:22m Fri May 09 22:44:22 1997
> 0:06m Fri May 09 22:50:23 1997
> 38d 5:16m Tue Jun 17 04:07:06 1997
> 22:54m Wed Jun 18 03:01:42 1997
> 1:59m Wed Jun 18 05:00:58 1997
> 6:51m Wed Jun 18 11:52:14 1997
> 1d 3:08m Thu Jun 19 15:01:12 1997
>
> Here's the source for the program I used:
>
>
>
> - Joe
>
> Joseph S. Barrera III (joebar@microsoft.com)
> http://research.microsoft.com/~joebar
> Phone, Office: (415) 778-8227; Cellular: (415) 601-3719; Home: (415)
> 588-4801
>
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