Re: System passwords

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Having to "excercise" an old system each week increases the odds of
hardware failure.

Actually, in our experience, putting our 40S on a weekly exercise cycle
substantially extended the MTBF on its hard drives (which had shockingly
short MTBFs even when running 24/7). I borrowed the concept from when I
worked part-time at an ice rink, and our emergency generator (not nearly
big enough to run all the lights, much less the refrigeration system) was
kept on a weekly exercise cycle, and when the 7-day wall timer that ran
the exercise cycle failed, so, eventually, did the engine on the generator
(you haven't lived until you've tried to work on an engine bolted to a
concrete floor, surrounded by brick walls with less than a foot of
clearance!)

As to the matter at hand, sw4you@xxxxxxxxxx seems to be the current email
address for system passwords, and predictably, they needed to be told that
(1) D02s don't have processor feature codes, and (2) their system password
version codes are QZ-series instead of QY-series. <rolleyes> At least they
have plenty of time to dig up the generator.

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JHHL