Power outage and uptime

[John (EBo) David]

Kevin Brown wrote:
> 
> Damn, I need to get a UPS for my poor little DEC Alpha multias.  One of them was
> at an uptime of 213 days with a load average of 1.06 .86 .90 when last I looked
> and then went downstairs to watch a movie and the whole house goes dark.  It all
> comes back up in about two minutes (long enough for me to find a flashlight and
> look around :) ) and then I get the joy of trying to remember how to boot the
> poor things.  I found a site that gave me the basic syntax so I figured it out
> again.
> 
> Heh, just goes to show how much a skill can atrophy from lack of use.  Last time
> power went out one of the multias was nearing 400 days uptime.  Oh well, it's
> booted and working again so back to my movie.

at $20 to $100 for a little UPS, they are LIVE savers...

BTW, isn't there a time tic' bug that overflows the time tic' at around
400 days?

  EBo --