> Someone should do a study to find out how many human life spans have > been lost waiting for NT to reboot. > Ken Deboy on Dec 24 1999 in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Hmm. Our Compaq Proliant (running NT) takes about 5 whole minutes from the moment I click reboot to the time when I can log in as Administrator and actually do something. The Proliant has 4 Pentium Pros at 200 MHz and half a gig of RAM, with a 24 gig array. It is running IIS (for our Front Page clients) and is also acting as a PDC. The results would be slightly more horrfying if you had a slower server. Less horrifying if you had a faster server. If I spend an entire day on it doing something, it usually needs two reboots or so. More if something major happened. So, let's say I worked on it for an entire year. ~18 work days per month, times 12 months per year. 10 minutes per day.. 18 days/month * 12 months/year * 10 minutes/day = 2160 minutes/year 2160 minutes / 60 minutes/hour = 36 hours/year The average number of hours that a human being lives, if they live to 80 is 691200 hours (GAH). 19200 humans working with NT for a year, a single lifespan is lost waiting for NT to reboot. (19200 * 36 = 691200) Some other perspectives: If 1,000,000 people use Windows NT for 1 year, 52 human lives are lost. That's a human life per week! 1,000,000 people using NT for 5 years = 260 lives. I'll let the numbers speak for themselves about the TCO involved in deploying Windows NT across your enterprise. Michael Bacarella To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
