Journal grub's Journal: 1000 day uptime 11
Ok, first off: I know "I haev teh l337x0r5 uptime" boasts are lame but this has me happy at some 14-year-old-who-just-installed-linux level:
$ uptime
3:43PM up 1000 days, 16:40, 2 users, load averages: 0.27, 0.06, 0.02
It's an ancient Pentium 166 MMX running FreeBSD 3.3 (OLD!) but has had all services touching the net up to date. The machine is well firewalled off and all packets hitting it are scrubbed with pf.
Look at all that disk space:
$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0s1a 119055 34449 75082 31%/
/dev/wd0s1f 2887188 2118030 538183 80%/usr
/dev/wd0s1e 992239 162634 750226 18%/var
procfs 4 4 0 100%/proc
This machine was at an uptime of 683 days but a power failure which lasted long enough that the UPS failed happened 1000 days ago today.
When we moved our offices in the house around I carried this computer while Kim carried the chirping UPS along. Anything to keep the uptime...
Funny, other machines I have get upgraded every 6 months (OpenBSD) or every day (Windows) and I don't care about reboots. I also have a newer machine which is ready to drop into service when this one chokes but this old crapbox has a lot of nostalgic value for me. I have no idea why. It's weird to think that this has been running since well before we talked about having kids (our daughter is 18.5 months old now).
What's your lame uptime story? What have you done to keep the uptime going? We all have a story like this to own up to...
My uptime (Score:2)
The best I managed with my old web server was a bit over 500 days, but unfortunately the ISP moved its server farm and had to shut it down. I finally retired that server -- a Duron 800 with a heavily patched Red Hat 5.0 system -- last spring. While it used to easily get uptimes of well over 200 days (broken only by kernel upgrades), towards the end it was getting extremely flaky and would only manage a few days before needing a reboot.
My current hosted server is a Mac mini running Ubuntu, and is doing qui
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Speaking of which, I had to
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I've got a Windows VM that's got an uptime of a few months, but that's only because it spent most of that time paused.
The best part about work is coding. The best part about going home is settling into my Linux desktop.
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I hate that. Type net stop wuauserv at a command prompt and it kills that annoying message.
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I use it enough that I made a
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At the 1990 uniforum vendor exhibition, key logic, inc. found that their booth was next to the novell booth. Novell, it seems, had been bragging in their advertisements about their recovery speed. Being basically neighborly folks, the key logic team suggested the following friendly challenge to the novell exhibitionists: let's both pull the plugs, and see who is up and running first.
Now one thing Novell is not is stupid. They refused.
Somehow, the story of the challenge got around the exhibition floor, and a crowd assembled. Perhaps it was gremlins. Never eager to pass up an opportunity, the keykos staff happily spent the next hour kicking their plug out of the wall. Each time, the system would come back within 30 seconds (15 of which were spent in the bios prom, which was embarassing, but not really key logic's fault). Each time key logic did this, more of the audience would give novell a dubious look.
Eventually, the novell folks couldn't take it anymore, and gritting their teeth they carefully turned the power off on their machine, hoping that nothing would go wrong. As you might expect, the machine successfully stopped running. Very reliable.
Having successfully stopped their machine, novell crossed their fingers and turned the machine back on. 40 minutes later, they were still checking their file systems. Not a single useful program had been started.
Figuring they probably had made their point, and not wanting to cause undeserved embarassment, the keykos folks stopped pulling the plug after five or six recoveries.
Oh the humanity! (Score:2)
Back in '95 (Score:1)
On one forum the guys were bragging about their Win 95 boxes and I just pointed out that I was reading the Usenet on a PC running Linux. And that box was 5000 miles away, and I was pretty sure I wouldn't have to r
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Heh. On the other side of things, at around the same time I was working at a Web agency, where I was using a Mac (being a design monkey), and most other people there were also using Macs, while one of the two owners used Win95 and thought it was teh bomb. Meanwhile our resident programming god used an early version of SuSE on a build-your-own PC, and I was bemused at how he got excited when he installed KDE and was proud to have a trash can. :-D
That was my first introduction to Linux, but it apparently di