[ale] uptime?

[Wandered Inn]

"Robert L. Harris" wrote:
> 
>   Was watching a discussion the other day.  Someone made a snide
> anti-linux comment about everyone pro-linux being so impressed by uptimes
> and how useless they were.
> 
>   At anyrate, I started wondering what good is an uptime in reality?  I'd
> like to know a real good use for it.  You can caluculate how since the
> last crash, etc.  I have my own reasons, but what are other good uses for
> this information?

I've recalled a couple of variations on a story regarding uptime for
windows 95, in that there was some specific uptime timeframe in which
this OS has never exceeded.

The point is, extended uptims speaks of stability and robust kernel and
application code.  One of the problems I believe NT has is memory
leaks.  I used to have to run NT on my laptop, and it would just plain
go brain dead after a while.

Understand, that if you have memory leak problems, eventually, they will
bring your machine down.

> 
> Robert
> 
> :wq!
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> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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