Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 20:01:29 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> Cc: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rpm and WordPerfect Office 2000 Message-ID: <20000517200129.F232@parish> In-Reply-To: <20000517034754.D89671@argon.blackdawn.com>; from andrews@technologist.com on Wed, May 17, 2000 at 03:47:54AM -0400 References: <200005152346.QAA11498@freeway.dcfinc.com> <200005160032.KAA09256@amor.wcs.uq.edu.au> <20000516084052.A12672@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> <20000516195819.J233@parish> <20000517034754.D89671@argon.blackdawn.com>
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On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 03:47:54AM -0400, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 07:58:19PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > Doesn't W95 hang after 47.9(?) days anyway ;-)
>
> I have a Windows box across the lab here, while running Windows 95 (one
> of the older releases) it often attained 200-250 day uptimes. In stark
> contrast, under Windows 98, it usually lasts between 30 to 60 days.
>
Must have had the fix applied. I was referring to the (documented in
the M$ knowledgebase) bug caused by a milli-second counter being an
unsigned int and so rolled over back to 0 after 2**32 milli-secs, or
49.71 days.
> Of course, I sure like my FreeBSD's box (which takes a lot bigger
> beating than that secretarial win98 machine)'s uptime:
>
> 3:46AM up 101 days, 21:45, 15 users, load averages: 1.22, 1.18, 1.25
>
> Take care.
>
> --
> Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
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> G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y?
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