Re: OT: What is the opposite of nostalgia?

Your nostalgia question prompted me to look up the date of my first SBS
install (June 5, 1998). In those days without all the patches, etc. we used
to go sometimes 8-10 months without a reboot. Good thing we didn't have all
the patches back then in the 56K modem days. I don't think we even had CD
burners back then, and the server was a 200 mhz Pentium with 64 mb ram.
Best of all, a mirrored set of 4 gb drives held all the programs and data.

That server's still around here somewhere, and I'll bet if I plugged it in
it would fire right up and give me access to my old mailbox. The first
hardware upgrade was a move of the 4 GB drives into a new server. The
second was a 4.5 -> 2K migration, one of the earliest Swing Migrations in
history, done with a TON of help from Jeff Middleton.

Everyone thought I knew what I was doing when it came to NT and Exchange,
but I was clueless. If not for this group (actually the predecessor to this
group) I'd have been on the unemployment line.


"Gary Karasik" <gkarasik@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23pLiGHVvFHA.2008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Well, one has to reboot from time to time because of service packs.
> patches, updates and such, so like you, 30-40 days. In the bad old days
> you had to cross your fingers everytime you did anything at all to the
> system for fear that some service wouldn't start or even that the entire
> system wouldn't start.
>
> GaryK
>
> "Andrew Hodgson" <me3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:5v3ui1l3gglgg7mrk5vht2l8hhrrkdubth@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 10:06:56 -0700, "Gary Karasik" <gkarasik@xxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>I was just remembering, with whatever is the opposite of nostalgia, the
>>>days
>>>under SBS4.5/WinNT4 when I was afraid to reboot the server.
>>
>> As someone who has come into Windows after hearing the NT stories, I
>> have uptimes on my server of around 30-40 days, usually interupted
>> with a powercut. What is the longest SBS machine you have seen up?
>>
>> Andrew.
>> --
>> Andrew Hodgson in Bromyard, Herefordshire, UK.
>> My Email: use <andrew at hodgsonfamily dot org>.
>
>


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