John Hasler wrote: > If I tell a client that he should install a used machine and it fails he > will blame me. If I tell him to buy a new one and it fails he will > blame the vendor (or more likely, if I recommend a used machine he will > buy a new one anyway and then never hire me again since he "knows" that > no one competent would ever recommend the use of a "banged up pc" for > anything serious). The fact that the used machine would work fine is > irrelevant.
And thus the world spirals to global warming and depletion of natural resources. On the other hand, all the organisations I have worked for have a long winded capital expenditure approval process, so requiring a new machine can kill or seriously delay a project. The likelihood is that the service gets put on a highly loaded existing Windows box, rather than on a new dedicated and appropriate system. (Global warming is a complex issue. I was mainly thinking of manufacturing carbon costs. However ntpd works best when most power management functions are disabled.) _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
