17 Apr
2010
17 Apr
'10
7:10 p.m.
On 17 Apr 10, at 04:41 , Andy Bennett wrote:
What? Oh how things have changed. Time was you'd
expect to go three or four years between reboots.
Perhaps on systems in completely controlled / closed networks that might have been true,
but in the 18 years I've been administering systems on the internet there have always
been times when it's been occasionally necessary to reboot in order to apply security-
or stability-related bugfixes. And that's not even taking into account downtime due
to failures or maintenance with facilities. (Server hosting facilities didn't used
to be as robust as they are now.)
I don't mean to start an argument, but I'm always suspicious of assertions that
things in the past were better than they really are. :) Progress is real.
Graham