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Agreed! You're right about using approved drivers and well written software!
Also, writing automatic pruning code for log files, archived transactions, etc... is always a good measure.
I write several services for a global mail/collaboration product. One of our marketing folks was telling a customer that they should restart their services every so often. So, I took an old machine of mine, installed our product on a Windows Server 2008 VM on it. Used another Hyper-V machine and simulated a 1000 ActiveSync, SMTP and IMAP client botnet via several dozen Hyper-V Windows XP VMs, running JavaScript and PowerShell. ( I use JavaScript to test my ActiveSync service regularly). I turned it all loose and let it run for 30 days.
My ActiveSync and all other services were still running as flat as they were by the time the 1000th client connected.
When the marketing guy saw this, he was astounded, and asked what kind of activity had been occurring.
Some of the stats that I recall from that demo...
Almost 200,000 original emails sent (averaging 30% with attachments of various sizes).
Around 50,000+ Replies
Around 30,000+ Forwards
over 650,000 deliveries to recipients (list bifurcation)
around 250,000 or so items moved between folders.
around 300,000 ItemOperations Fetch calls
1/4 million or so Deletes
1.5 millions Global Address List searches
In general, the numbers were huge compared to what most of our SMB market customers ever see. My ActiveSync testing script behavea similar to the client type they are to impersonate ie., Androids, iOS (UGH!), Windows Phones, Outlook, etc...
After that, he was all excited about showing customers five 9's  I guess he thought we didn't have it in us! LOL!
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Around 1990 I was a system manager for a MicroVAX 3600 and if I didn't reboot it once a week (Friday nights) by Tuesday it would slow to a crawl and crash.
Probably a memory leak in the third-party software, written in VAX BASIC.
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He should pony up some compensation!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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A couple of ponys should be enough!
--edit--
For the non UKians a pony is £50 (I think... )
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Quit horsing about!
He's financially stable, so it was probably a spur of the moment thing - it's a bit much to blame it all on him, he was probably saddled with the meat. While I appreciate your unbridled enthusiasm, perhaps we should rein it in?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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arrrrggggghhhhhh!
Punned to death!
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The guy ran for local elections you know. Apparently it was first past the post....
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Let's not take a blinkered approach. I'm champing at the bit for someone to stirrup some more puns although I don't want to end up in hock to them. I might snaffle some of the better ones for myself. The pun quality has been good in the mane considering most of them were created on the hoof.
Andy B
modified 7-Jul-17 3:42am.
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They trotted out that idea already
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Do you ever bloody work? How the hell do you have so much time to spend on this site?
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Well, currently no, well, yes, but on a maintainer contract after a project.
SO I am at home working on the house. (Believe me, I would rather be working.... try tiling a pool surround in full sun at 37C. Its a frigging nightmare)
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I don't do anything in prolonged, direct sunshine anymore. If I work outside it is in the morning and late afternoon. During August, when it is the hottest, and most humid, I turn into a vampire and only come out at night.
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Yeah, I gave up at midday, christ, it was insufferable, then slobbed out on the dark with the shutters closed. Sad really, but sunshine does, in excess, become an insult.
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Stupid really, people getting upset by a smart idea, it's actually quite good.
Time to reign in another vintage practice, make it a stable product.
(Yes, seriously, it's nice and it's healthy too).
Sin tack
the any key okay
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It is, it is readily available in France, it is a nice steak. Better than cheap beef for sure.
Mind you the frogs also eat fried donkeys ears, half pigs heads, and brains. The butchers section of a French supermarket looks like a battle field!
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I was thinking, after reading the article...
Wow, this is 1 Euro cheaper per Kg... I need to try horsemeat...
(Don't tell the wife and daughter... They are sensitive about that stuff. They usually can't eat a meal if they know the name of the animal we are eating...)
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I believe the problem is not so much that he used horse meat (as others have pointed out, it is considered a delicacy in many parts of the world), but that the burgers were not advertised as such. Were he to have sold them as beef-horse-burgers, and listed the horse meat in the ingredients, he would be in no trouble at all levels
(Whether he would still be in business is another matter)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Reminds me of an incident from my misspent/well spent youth (you decide).
I was invited to a formal dinner by a lady who laid claim to a French title, principally on the grounds that I was shag.. er... walking out with her daughter. The entrée was horse meat. As a keen rider, riding to hounds on occasion, I declined to eat it. Englishmen do not eat horses.
The accusatory eye of the contessa fell upon me, and she asked if there was anything wrong with the meat. I replied "Madame, there is only one of God's creatures that I both ride and eat, and I can assure you it is not the horse".
At first, there was a stunned silence around the table, then some titters, and then guffaws from the assembled gentlemen. The ladies present looked at me with renewed interest.
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Worthy of a great comedy film!
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Does your company hire "pushy" people simply because their building's doors are not automatic?
modified 6-Jul-17 11:51am.
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FAIL! 
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Wait... Does that also mean it has to hire "pully" people to open the doors from the other side?
On the other hand, you have different fingers. - Steven Wright
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No, its a double sided hinge.
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