From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24550 invoked by alias); 11 Sep 2008 16:51:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 24541 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Sep 2008 16:51:47 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:51:08 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KdpNk-00056H-SX for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:51:00 +0000 Received: from 65.207.248.83 ([65.207.248.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:51:00 +0000 Received: from mw_triad by 65.207.248.83 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:51:00 +0000 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: setup.exe --quiet-mode Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:51:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <48C0316C.F9E434A9@dessent.net> <00fc01c90f39$f4006970$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <007101c9136b$a62b3e10$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <007c01c91372$1c48c3a0$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <5E25AF06EFB9EA4A87C19BC98F5C8753016D87EE@core-email.int.ascribe.com> <014a01c9142c$eb129570$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080723 Fedora/2.0.0.16-1.fc9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: <014a01c9142c$eb129570$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Original-To: Still running. Nothing outlasts the uptime of a Microsoft server. Well... almost nothing. Ok, just about everything. Oop, there's the BSOD. X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List X-SW-Source: 2008-q3/txt/msg00093.txt.bz2 Dave Korn wrote: > Matthew Woehlke wrote on 11 September 2008 17:08: > >> Phil Betts wrote: >>> [...] this is >>> Windowsland where rebooting is a way of life; even Windows' >>> programmers never expected uptime to exceed 2^32 milliseconds. >> (That's approximately 49 days for those too lazy to whip out a >> calculator. Which is pretty sad ;-).) > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216641 > "Computer Hangs After 49.7 Days" Oy, hadn't run across that before :-). >> I'd actually be quite shocked if I don't have some Windows boxes around >> that have exceeded that (at least since NT5). I think I've kept my home >> computer up longer (back when it ran W2K), and likely some lab machines >> around work (which, granted, never have software or updates installed, >> so no reason to reboot). > > It was only ever true for Win95 and early versions of Win98. All NT-series > OSs count time in units of 100ns using a 64-bit long long. Which won't run > out any time soon.... Aww, you don't think a Windows box will manage an uptime of 29,227,102 years? ;-) -- Matthew If you believe you received this e-mail in error, you are probably sadly mistaken, but if not, aren't you lucky? -- Unknown