[thelist] My first Robot

[John Handelaar]

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> Sent: 23 July 2002 17:59
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> Subject: RE: [thelist] My first Robot
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> john & hershel,
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> > From: John Handelaar
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> > > The client thinks he wants a Windows platform and we
> > > estimate that the traffic will be up to 5 Gigabytes a
> > > month
> >
> > The client is, unfortunately, mistaken.  Throw that
> > much crap through a Windows box and the hard disk'll
> > be swiss cheese inside 3 months from fragmentation.
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> that is complete and utter garbage.

My, but we're being constructive today.

> i work on a number of win2k
> servers and they push out *way* more than 5gig a month of traffic

Hershel actually said he was bringing 5Gb *in*, and replacing
all of it regularly.  Which is a fantastic way to frag-up a
hard disk, as you really ought to know.

Diskeeper is indeed an option, but it ain't cheap.

> hershel, don't sweat this sort of anti-windows fear-mongering.

No, it's practical experience of running NT-based servers for
the last 6 years.  Getting religious about it helps nobody.

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