Not everyone is buying that explanation. I certainly am not. Bad as Windows is, there's no reason Skype should have been affected by something like this.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/08/20/skype_reaction/index.php On 8/21/07, Hendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >From TechCrunch: > ---------------------------------------------- > > Skype has finally > explained<http://heartbeat.skype.com/2007/08/what_happened_on_august_16.html>the > reasons behind the 36+ hour outage of their popular P2P VOIP service > last week: Windows Users. > > According to Skype the outage was caused by "a massive restart of our > user's computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they > re-booted after receiving a routine software update" which The Register points > out <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/20/skype_outage_post-mortem/>was > Microsoft's monthly patch Tuesday. Patch Tuesday is the time of the > month Windows users receive security updates that often result in widespread > reboots by Thursday. > > Skype said that whilst their peer-to-peer network has an inbuilt ability > to self-heal, the event "revealed a previously unseen software bug within > the network resource allocation algorithm which prevented the self-healing > function from working quickly." > -- > ________________________________________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oraclelinux.org > _______________________________________________ > Slugnet mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > > -- Regards, Anshul "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." -- Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist"
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