Re: tlug: A little NT chuckle...

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Sean Bennett wrote:

> ...with the talk of new hard drive partitioning of late, I
> thought I'd add this...
> 
> The other night I was installing WinNT onto a new partion on
> my hard drive; A Diablo Game CD (surely a left over from a
> previous owner ;-) was in one of the cdrom drives, and when
> I inserted the NT cdrom, it adopted the Diablo icon for
> itself.  Now, no matter what drive I stick the NT cd in, in
> the Control Panel it shows up with an 'evil-warlord
> skull-and-bones' icon.  Thought it was kind of humorous....
> hope it isn't an indication of what NT has instore for my
> system... <g>

you should know better.  The icon had nothing to do with Diablo, that's
the default NT CD-ROM icon starting with SP3, I think (just kidding, of
course).

I also heard that Microsoft themselves recommends that you shut down and
reboot NT servers every 3 or 4 days..?  This was from a friend of mine who
works for the company that does the data processing for Saturn and GM here
in Japan.  They say that when they need a machine to stay up for a long
time, they use a Solaris box or a Linux box (they actually have a couple
of Linux boxes in their company doing real work).  They do, in fact,
reboot the NT machines every 3 or 4 days, due to stability concerns.

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