>BUT...
>
>Aaron is not a Nazi. There is no proof that Aaron diminshed anyone's
>ability to use their computer, nor caused the slow response time reported
>in the article.
Thank you for that affirmation that I'm *not* a Nazi :-)
>I believe that no such proof shall come to light. If Aaron did not mess
>with the priority levels of PrimeNT, it can be easily shown that response
>time was not diminished on these systems.
Again, I left the default priority setting that NT Prime uses, and also, it
is worth noting that only computers in Phoenix apparently had problems. If
the cause *was* in fact NT Prime, then why weren't the computers in Omaha
and Denver also similarly afflicted?
And also note that since the machines had been running the software for a
period of maybe 2 weeks, why were there problems only on one particular day?
The circumstances surrounding the US WEST slowdown, in fact, point *away*
from NT Prime as the culprit, and instead, they point with full force to the
mainframe computers that US WEST uses.
FWIW, the users machines simply run an XWindow server that plugs into some
Unix machines. So if they were having delays retreiving phone numbers (or
whatever), it reeks to high heaven of a *nix problem to me...especially
since I am somewhat familiar with these kinds of things happening to US WEST
in the past.
Aaron
PS - Don't quote me on any of that :-)
