[WEB4LIB] Re: Where do you get support and why?

[Dobbs, Aaron]

Check the hardware compatibility list www.microsoft.com/hcl I think.
The compatibility list is draconian, but if your hardware is on there it'll
work just fine.
(yeah, yeah - someone could write a driver for it if it were open source)
-Aaron
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-Aaron Dobbs

-----Original Message-----
From: John Williams [mailto:jwilliams at jhubc.it]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:38 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Where do you get support and why?


Win2Kpro crashed on me almost immedialtely after install. An oldish CD-ROM
drive (5 years old?) failed to read a newish CD-ROM (Canon scanner software)
so the PC just seized up, keyboard and all. Is this normal behavior?

Win2K Server configuration has gotten so complex that it may just have
people turning to a simpler more straightforward OS, perhaps Unix?

John Williams


>
> Those things are in the past for anyone running Win2K.  This Win2KPro
> box has been running 24/7 without a reboot for over sixty days.  It is
> a web server and very heavily used machine for all sorts of
> applications.
>
> I have three Win2k servers that have run for over ninety days each
> with no reboot.  They are busy webservers and proxy servers.
> Yesterday all were rebooted, but not because they "needed it" or it
> was a scheduled time.  We had a power failure and after twenty minutes
> of running on UPS and no estimate of when the power would be restored,
> we powered them down gracefully.  Of course the power came back up not
> two minutes after they were powered down.