On Jan 22, 2013 11:07 AM, "Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 01:36:55PM -0600, Dale wrote > > > Well, I have seen servers run for YEARS with no reboots. Most of those > > admit, they don't upgrade them at all. One several years ago said he > > hadn't even blew out the dust in that time. It was over 5 years since > > he even logged into it. He kept his in a closet. One of those was on > > the old show TheScreenSavers on Tech TV. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/ > > Straight from Edgar Allen Poe > > -- > Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> > I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications >
The headline is misleading and too sensationalist... The server had been performing well for years, so nobody actually missed the server. Only after a network audit been performed did they realize that the server -- which might even still be happily serving clients -- is nowhere to be found. Rgds, --
