From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 5 11:55:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D6D315634 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:55:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 12374 invoked from network); 5 Oct 1999 18:55:43 -0000 Received: from userat31.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.137.134) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 5 Oct 1999 18:55:43 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id TAA00956; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 19:55:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 19:55:31 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Kris Kennaway , "D.M.P." , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A record? Message-ID: <19991005195531.A315@marder-1> References: <37F9436B.889B106B@mindless.com> <19991005085824.A5143@rucus.ru.ac.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991005085824.A5143@rucus.ru.ac.za> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 08:58:24AM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Mon 1999-10-04 (19:18), Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Question: Linux 2.0.18 has been running for 907 days? I wasn't > > > aware that Linux 2.0 had been out that long (2.5 years). > > > > It's probably wise to take these figures with a fairly large grain of salt > > (although they do make good PR). It's amazing what you can do by fiddling > > with your system clock or tweaking your kernel's "time of last boot" > > variable :-) > > Amusingly, when Windows 2000 Professional (beta 3) hibernates (dumps > memory and stuff to disk, and turns off) and is woken up, it retains > your uptime. > Well, they had to find some way of getting the uptime measured in weeks, didn't they :) BTW, has anyone else read the supposed decree from Lord Gates to the W2K development team that "...anything that requires a reboot is to be considered a bug". Now that I have got to see. > Neil > -- > Neil Blakey-Milner > nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ 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-chat" in the body of the message