[ale] OT: mourning the end of an uptime...

[Scott Castaline]

Sid Lane wrote:
> even the best configured, most redundant/fault tolerant systems 
> eventually go down...
>
> yesterday our plans to celebrate four years of uptime on a Sun 1125 
> were suddenly and cruely cut short.  exactly one week shy of its 4th 
> birthday it fell victim to server room power loss:  1st, GA Power had 
> a nearby transformer explode then we discovered that one of the 
> batteries in that room's UPS was bad (we discovered this when it 
> exploded as well :).  the patient was successfully revived but now has 
> this strange ":" character in its uptime which the windoze guys tell 
> us is normal after rebooting and that the ex-mainframe guys assure us 
> will go away with time.
>
> I know it sounds silly but I'm really bummed...  we were planning on 
> having a little party for it.  to put it in perspective my 3 yr-old 
> son did not exist (even as a parasite) when this box was last rebooted.
>
> so now that I've adequately grieved who's top dog on uptime now?
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While working for Quotron Systems back in the 80's I remember hearing of 
a site that went down but the service group had no info on it. About 2 
days later it was found that it was a customer that had been intalled 8 
years earlier, never had an outage or a change in service request. They 
were just forgotten about having never heard from them. The Accounts  
Receivable dept at QSI received payments on time for 8 years.....