Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 19:55:31 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.FreeBSD.ORG>, "D.M.P." <gryph@mindless.com>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A record? Message-ID: <19991005195531.A315@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <19991005085824.A5143@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <37F9436B.889B106B@mindless.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910041916150.77709-100000@hub.freebsd.org> <19991005085824.A5143@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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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
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