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From: Oden Eriksson <oden.eriksson@kvikkjokk.net>
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Subject: Re: Nasty suprise with uptime
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 20:43:08 +0100
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On Tuesdayen den 30 October 2001 17.25, Matt Bernstein wrote:
> At 18:46 +1100 Neale Banks wrote:
> >> It wraps at 496 days. The drivers are aware of it and dont crash the box
> >
> >You mean there was a time when uptime>496days would crash a system?

I think this thread is pretty stupid..., who with a little common sense ever 
treasure uptime? What's important is the total downtime..., and why...

I liked one idea that popped up here where one would use a random uptime..., 
that would get ignorant people to be amazed and wonder how _that_ could 
be....

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Oden Eriksson

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