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OT: Ya want MacOS X on x86? Well, ya just might get it!

jason moy

OT: Ya want MacOS X on x86? Well, ya just might get it!

by jason moy » Mon, 09 Sep 2002 09:37:20

On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 23:23:07 +0200, Uwe Schuerkamp


>No, you don't. You shut it down after you've raced your races
>and played your games. Saves power, you know.  Then, you do
>your day-to-day stuff on a Linux/BSD box. Don't even get me
>started about "uptime records" ;-)

One of my former coworkers at a previous job (and a great friend of
mine) had an Ultra 5 development machine that had 400 days of uptime
when he quit, even surviving a move between offices across the city.

Honestly, to this day I'm not sure if the machine has been shut down
since early 2000.  Last time I checked, about 6 months ago (well after
he quit) it was still up and being used for development and qmail
testing since it had all of his modified qmail source code on it.

I'd like to see a Windows 2000 or XP machine, in a production
environment, pull off 2-3 year uptimes...  Hell, I'd be happy if you
could run a pair of Win2k boxes behind a local director without ISS
refusing to run every day or two.

Jason

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Uwe Schuerkam

OT: Ya want MacOS X on x86? Well, ya just might get it!

by Uwe Schuerkam » Mon, 09 Sep 2002 17:10:22


> One of my former coworkers at a previous job (and a great friend of
> mine) had an Ultra 5 development machine that had 400 days of uptime
> when he quit, even surviving a move between offices across the city.

We had a similar situation on a Linux box (ok, it was only a
Squid proxy for the company and sometimes served a round of UT)
where the jiffy counter overflowed and it reported an uptime of
1 day again 8-( This must have been after near 500 days of
uptime. Quite impressive for a 2.0 kernel I believe.

They cannot. Remember you have to upgrade every two years and
pay Bill and his minions his money. That's when you reboot at
the latest ;-)

Cheers,

uwe

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