using samba for backups

[Matthew Seaman]

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 
> disgruntled MS employee who put code into W95 to make it crash after 41 
> days or something.The funny part of course was how nobody interviewed could 
> 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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