From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 02:28:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CA1C106568B for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:28:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from modulok@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F0CD8FC19 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:28:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from modulok@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so281164rvf.43 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:28:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=hbo4P9g0LLZ+i2eTmhmH7Ly5Hq8k/69V7qaTy7bD5SM=; b=fEJBpmYhkEotUFkJAvBem0evsiZDoFubbFsXWGFvTtHr5f4tcN9GjHS4T/ecAsCGdL 1iLjPzWajn5jpOIN98l0pqex5mpibT+1mMxIZ+YyUzvclJCaFI5nYSOHbTeFQIqOye0D GrAWhH4okHwYBvrgnO2efOcybP9jOrmidWelA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=dYUaVhaOezYJj4uSxsAy9XuU7y/H5kmAn2PNIJg9C5JAR5XbNWaTTLR1ScY23F8zHl pW5ABY3uVv3Ob5MOtlc6jRMfCXRxe5Bsw9fjwLm7CPZA3EXkIghC8Y65RmR7zikUtL6G qvjsldbKZX28cP2MnQ2BJ9zDjX17cfGhm+TBc= Received: by 10.142.230.11 with SMTP id c11mr433671wfh.302.1223603963528; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:59:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.177.16 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 18:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <64c038660810091859q2423041fq86f2c0cc5f9b5d31@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:59:22 -0600 From: Modulok To: cmarshall@ahm-inc.com In-Reply-To: <48EEA4B3.3050707@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081008162153.GA80866@icarus.home.lan> <20081008164540.GA78500@ozzmosis.com> <48ECF908.5080100@gmail.com> <44y70y7yiy.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <48EEA4B3.3050707@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uptime 2 years! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:28:34 -0000 >> uptime 2 years! Congratulations. Long uptimes should be shared, so as to encourage people to consider FreeBSD for long-term stability. Thank you for posting. Through this discussion the lazy administrator topic came up... In regards to that, we must keep in mind, 'stability,' pertains not only to run-time stability but also to temporal stability and general quality of the design and implementation of the original code base. If an administrator has to make offline kernel patches every week to fix a glaring security hole, something was wrong with the sofware's original design or implementation. Regardless, mistakes do occur, so keep your system up for as long as you can, but don't forget to watch the security reports for things that would directly affect that specific server. All things in moderation. >>Sorry to bother you...You know, you could just leave well enough alone if you don't >>care. There goes any future donations from me and my organization as this is >>more than the first untactful email I recieved from this, I'll donate and use other >>platforms. Please don't send any other emails Don't let a few sour grapes get you down. I think it's cool. -Modulok-