netcraft uptimes

[plug@arcticmail.com]

> Additionally, NT4 uptimes cycle back to zero after 49.7 days, and give
> timestamps exactly as if the machine had been rebooted at this precise
> point, while HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD also cycle
> back to zero after 497 days. NT4 SP5 sometimes gives unreliable data,
> appearing as a "swarm of bees" effect on a graph
* On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 08:37:02AM -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
> The fundamental reason all are running *nix seems to be that no other OS
> reports uptime . . . even many *nixs with reputations for reliability
> evidently don't report uptime.  (However note that NT5 *does* report uptime.


I *TOLD* you guys that my FreeBSD box had 498 days of uptime,
but no one would believe me!

Can you EVEN IMAGINE telling someone accustomed to an M$ environment,
"We consistently run into a little snag EVERY SINGLE TIME the bloody
system has been up for more than 497 days.  It's such a pain."


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