From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 17 22: 7:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rhenium.btinternet.com (rhenium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 017FE37BD1E for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 22:07:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [62.7.33.41] (helo=parish.my.domain) by carbon with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12s94u-0002es-00; Wed, 17 May 2000 20:01:56 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA01309; Wed, 17 May 2000 20:01:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 20:01:29 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Will Andrews Cc: Szilveszter Adam , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rpm and WordPerfect Office 2000 Message-ID: <20000517200129.F232@parish> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000517034754.D89671@argon.blackdawn.com>; from andrews@technologist.com on Wed, May 17, 2000 at 03:47:54AM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- > ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ > G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message