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Re: [TCLUG:17041] <OT:anti-M$> *scary* stuff...



That KB article he was referring to is talking about Win98.  I don't
think the same bug was in any other version.

Larry Greenwald wrote:
> 
> I guess that I will have to tell the NT servers I have had running non stop
> since New Years that they can't still be running.  The only reason they were
> shut down then was as part of a corporate Y2K precaution.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John R. Sheets [mailto:dusk@ravendusk.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 3:24 PM
> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:17041] <OT:anti-M$> *scary* stuff...
> 
> On Tuesday, May 02, 2000, Clay Fandre <cfandre@cfsmo.honeywell.com> wrote:
> >
> > I suppose you can have a Micro$$$$$$$oft box running for a few years if
> > it doesn't do anything. But from experience, (we have around 15 NT
> > boxes) and they all leak memory like a sieve.
> 
> Heheh....even if you _could_, you can't.  Microsoft Knowledge Base
> article Q216641 points out that after 49.7 days of continuous operation,
> your Windows box can spontaneously hang.  I've always found it amusing
> that it took so long to notice this bug.  I assume it's fixed in W2k.
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q216/6/41.ASP
> 
> > Please excuse my keyboard. It tends to stick sometimes.
> 
> (c:  Mine to.
> 
> John
> 
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