T wrote:
On 3/4/19 7:47 PM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
Baloney Todd, Last place I worked before I retired I had 2 windows
machines running for about two and a half years 24/7/365 with no shut
downs or reboots, They ran my security and door card reader systems
and where not allowed to shut down, they were critical systems. You
are spreading FUD, and its not appreciated.


Rene

Seriously Rene. Your computers ran a single app. and from that
you surmised that I am spreading FUD?

I am curious about your system.

In 2-1/2 years you never had a power hit? What kind of power
protection were you running.

What version of Windows did you run?

Was it embedded Windows?

Did you have Internet access?

Did you run any other apps on it?

Did you have updates turned off?

Did you have sleep / hibernate enabled?

We had a machine at work with an uptime of 2 years.

And knowing how often the power used to drop to that
site, it got some of the staff thinking "this cannot possibly
be right". The power at the time, would drop maybe once a
week due to lightning storms (summer months). How could
a machine stay up for two years, when all the computers
around it, dropped once a week ? It seemed like a miracle,
like finding an image of Jesus in your morning toast.
(It was a Unix box, and presumably had an uptime command.)

Then, someone decided to check where the power plug was
situated. And it turned out, that computer was plugged
into the emergency lighting system rail :-) The power
source that runs all those red Exit signs. The building design,
had that power bussed throughout the building.

So if you want a recipe for fun at work, give that
a try.

I'm pretty sure that outlet is specifically marked as
not for general consumption, but some rocket scientist
probably thought this would be funny. And, it was...

Paul