I think, everyone from Linux industry, knows about kexec (fast rebooting ... actually not rebooting just switching kernels) or Pannus (live kernel patching, but right now the project is dead) and their use. The Linux community started very earlier to think at a method to switch or patch a live kernel, but this things should work only on a very good kernel with very good memory and process isolation ... but this was achieved some time ago, we have a very good and mature Linux kernel (in my opinion was perfect from 2.4.2x) what can run for years without a reboot (my record is 4 years on a system with kernel 2.6.8 and this kernel is far to be perfect).

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After some power failure and fu** up hardware this article just save my day ...
http://enterprise.linux.com/enterprise/06/10/11/1911211.shtml?tid=47

eBay rolled out Sell Your Item 3.0 at the end of the summer, but not for linux.
All the scripts are made for Internet explorer and not for any other browser.
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Knowing that sometimes the combination of operating system and browser is the source of the problem, I experimented with a variety of combinations. I used Firefox, Konqueror, Epiphany, and Opera on Linux, and I tried Firefox on Mac OS X and Windows.Linux is the only element that triggers faulty behavior from the Sell Your Item form. None of the Linux browsers I tried worked correctly, and all of the browsers I tried on the other operating systems worked fine.

If you want to work under linux install Firefox user agent switcher and change you browser identity to Internet Explorer 6 ...
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