Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:08:01 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good PR Message-ID: <20030204110801.GA25299@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <xzpu1fkcoue.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <xzpu1fkcoue.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:38:49AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > These stats are good news for *BSDers: > > <URL:http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html>; > > The only thing that worries me is that with an uptime that long, they > must be running a FreeBSD version with known security holes... Especially as the uptime counter that Netcraft detects loops back to zero after 497 days for HP-UX, Solaris, Linux and <ta-da!> recent versions of FreeBSD. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#whichos And that there are a whole slew of operating systems for which Netcraft can't detect the uptime at all. Besides, as you say, keeping a server running continuously for that length of time probably indicates that a great deal of essential maintenance has been neglected. It's a nice looking page, from the point of view of PR, but don't try and use it to impress anyone with a modicum of technical nous. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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