Bye bye uptime :( - Page 2

Goose · 27-02-2008, 16:56

Unplug it, move it and plug it back it. Do it quick enough and maybe it won't notice.

Garp · 27-02-2008, 16:57

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Originally Posted by Takhisis

You do realise they will successfully move it, get it all happy in its new home, and then something will break?

probably will happen.

Daz · 27-02-2008, 16:58

You know, to put that into context, this machine was booted around the time XP SP1 was released

You would never think of keeping a doze box running for that time, what with all the patching etc.

Feek · 27-02-2008, 19:33

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Originally Posted by Daz

You know, to put that into context, this machine was booted around the time XP SP1 was released

You would never think of keeping a doze box running for that time, what with all the patching etc.

Don't you believe it - I commissioned a packet radio node on the 19th December 2002 using Windows 2000. It's still running, has never been revisited and as far as I know never rebooted. One day I must go and plug a screen and keyboard into it and see what it's uptime is.

LeperousDust · 27-02-2008, 20:50

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Originally Posted by Feek

Don't you believe it - I commissioned a packet radio node on the 19th December 2002 using Windows 2000. It's still running, has never been revisited and as far as I know never rebooted. One day I must go and plug a screen and keyboard into it and see what it's uptime is.

Not quite sure what the hell you're talking about there Feek, so i'm not sure how much work that doze machine has to do, but i'd hazzard a guess, the little beastie Garp was talking about has been doing a lot more work over the past 5 years

I could boot a doze machine up and leave it for 5 years (well i hope so, blaster worms aside

) but thats no fair comparison...

Daz · 27-02-2008, 20:54

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Originally Posted by Feek

Don't you believe it - I commissioned a packet radio node on the 19th December 2002 using Windows 2000. It's still running, has never been revisited and as far as I know never rebooted. One day I must go and plug a screen and keyboard into it and see what it's uptime is.

'kin ell!

It must be in a secure network though - a machine that old will be vulnerable to a large collection of remote code execution exploits!

Feek · 27-02-2008, 20:58

Alex, it's doing a fair bit of work, it's reading data in through a couple of serial ports, processing it and outputting it again, even though there's no screen attached it's got a GUI client running with a hacked DOS TSR program in the background! I think it's a P2-200 with something silly like 64Mb RAM so it is working quite hard. It's a machine I was given by one of our users when they upgraded.

Daz, it's not on a network so it's safe.

I wasn't saying that it's doing as much work as the one Garp is talking about (although I'm sure it's swapping a heck of a lot and the CPU doesn't sit anywhere near idle) but just pointing out that Windows boxes can run and be doing stuff without reboots for a long time.

Mark · 27-02-2008, 21:24

Feek - Just as well it didn't have this to worry about then. Though how anyone could get a Win 95/98 machine to run that long is beyond me

27-02-2008, 16:56	#11
Goose The list is long, but distinguished Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Århus, Denmark Posts: 1,643	Unplug it, move it and plug it back it. Do it quick enough and maybe it won't notice. __________________

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Daz The Stig Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Swad! Posts: 10,713	You know, to put that into context, this machine was booted around the time XP SP1 was released You would never think of keeping a doze box running for that time, what with all the patching etc. __________________ apt-get moo

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Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	Alex, it's doing a fair bit of work, it's reading data in through a couple of serial ports, processing it and outputting it again, even though there's no screen attached it's got a GUI client running with a hacked DOS TSR program in the background! I think it's a P2-200 with something silly like 64Mb RAM so it is working quite hard. It's a machine I was given by one of our users when they upgraded. Daz, it's not on a network so it's safe. I wasn't saying that it's doing as much work as the one Garp is talking about (although I'm sure it's swapping a heck of a lot and the CPU doesn't sit anywhere near idle) but just pointing out that Windows boxes can run and be doing stuff without reboots for a long time. __________________

27-02-2008, 21:24	#18
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	Feek - Just as well it didn't have this to worry about then. Though how anyone could get a Win 95/98 machine to run that long is beyond me