From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Apr 28 05:10:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA04827 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 05:10:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-30.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA04692 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 05:09:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from (uk.radan.com) [158.152.75.22] by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0yU9C6-0003Zs-00; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:09:07 +0100 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id NAA04866; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:08:25 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12055; Tue, 28 Apr 98 13:08:24 BST Message-Id: <3545C6A1.AEC7F623@uk.radan.com> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:08:01 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: gsutter@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uptime References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG gsutter@pobox.com wrote: > > It seems to me that a good advertising point for FreeBSD would be > uptime. For example, I had a 16MB 486 up for 71 days before a power > outage killed it. I have also seen posts with huge uptimes (600+ days) > that would be great advertising. > > For posters, etc: huge text in background, "465 Days", smaller bolder > text in fore with "FreeBSD uptime" and a catchy slogan, e.g. "What's a > crash?" Or, to paraphrase Henry Ford, "FreeBSD, any screen colour you want....except blue!" [snip] > Greg > -- > Gregory S. Sutter "How do I read this file?" > mailto:gsutter@pobox.com "You uudecode it." > http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ "I I I decode it?" > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message -- Mark Ovens *====================================* CNC Apps Engineer | One of the main causes of the fall | Radan Computational Ltd | of the Roman Empire was, that | mailto:marko@uk.radan.com | lacking a zero, they had no way of | | indicating the successful | | termination of their C programs | *====================================* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message