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« on: 23 June 2002, 12:39 »
using the uptime program from microsoft..

\\WESTBOURNE_VPN1 has been up for: 417 day(s) 20 hour(s) 25 minute(s) 6 second(s)

Estimate based on the last record in the event log
See Uptime /help for more details.

This is an NT 4 server running at my school.
and you shmoes say windows is unstable beeheehee
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« Reply #1 on: 23 June 2002, 13:02 »
Reminds me of this one Counter-Strike toon. There is this computer that has a sign "This computer has been running for 4 years straight"

Lord Destros(the protagonist in the cartoon) clicks the "Counter-Strike" icon on the desktop, a warning pops up "WARNING 0.0000001% system resources free". He runs it and the computer bursts into flames.  
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« Reply #2 on: 23 June 2002, 19:50 »
Oh and the computer was using Windows 95 I believe. (So now you can't find a loophole)

Is it really wise to run a computer for more then a few days straight? Isn't it better to give those components a rest?
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« Reply #3 on: 23 June 2002, 21:11 »
no, as long as the capiciters are good/*i have a few horror stories and dead x86 boxen to prove there a bitch*/ keeping the machine up forever is actually better then shutting it down. getting a 7200 rpm harddisk up to 7200 rpm takes a bit of work and where, things in motion tend to stay in motion. however, don't run shitty motherboards/computers constantly using seti iv killed three machines this way/*well, i was trying to kill one of them:;*/. however, if you have a decent mobo/processor keep it up and run seti for me. you also don't have to wait for it to boot up, its always there. i also run a lot of seti and run servers on all my boxen, by the way, does anyone want to start a windows-sucks seti team
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« Reply #4 on: 24 June 2002, 00:36 »
Yes, but im a gamer and a surfer. I don't run servers and have no clue what Seti is.  

Well Linux is one thing, but with Windows you have no choice but to reboot eventually.  

Usually when I go down, my comp goes down with me to dream.  
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« Reply #5 on: 24 June 2002, 15:28 »
when these guys say seti, they mean the united devices agent, running seti@home.

united devices have a program that snags unused flops of your CPU, but does not slow down any other programs if they want to use those flops. This enables the agent to transparently do calculations in the background. This is used to effect by SETI, as they have a thing where you download some raw info which has been recorded from incoming signals from space, and your UD agent processes the data looking for patterns. You then upload the results back to SETI, and they can save a lot of time figuring out if there's anybody out there.

There's also a program (which i am now using) which enables you to check for cancer cures in the background. Bastards have only released a windows version though, and i am no god at configuring wine (a 2 year old version of wine no less...)
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« Reply #6 on: 24 June 2002, 19:42 »
ahh, i think i have to correct you calum. setiathome has it's own client it came out long before united devices's. you can find it at www.setiathome.com
it runs on atleast 20 platforms. though doesn't the united devices client also have the possiblity to run setiathome?

and about windows uptimes. at my school our network gets shut down once every 2 weeks
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« Reply #7 on: 24 June 2002, 20:54 »
our network at school was fine, but then it was all macs...

As for seti@home, the united devices page says that their engine is what seti@home uses, however if you are right, then i bet that that's what they mean and they're just tootling away on their own trumpet...
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« Reply #8 on: 26 June 2002, 00:31 »
My Linux Internet Gateway has been running for weeks and weeks with no problems. It is only a Pentium I with 32 MB of RAM.
btw, if anyone out there is planning on building a server that will be on all the time, DO NOT USE IBM's recent HDD's, because for a start they are a bad bunch and also IBM has made a statement saying they cannot be run 24/7. (these are the IDE ones)
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« Reply #9 on: 26 June 2002, 00:51 »
yeah whats up with IBM lately, on linux servers we have been building we used to use IBM scsi drives but usually half of the batch would be DOA!! We recently switched to seagates. IBM has gone to shit for HDD's
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« Reply #10 on: 26 June 2002, 01:21 »
Wow, very unlike IBM.  I am amazed to hear this. Hopefully they get this resolved soon and don't let it happen again.
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« Reply #11 on: 26 June 2002, 02:34 »
I like Seagate and Maxtor.
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« Reply #12 on: 26 June 2002, 02:43 »
well interestingly enough the new western digitals look almost exactly alike in design as the ibms meaning they are produced in the same plants now. this may be the cause...
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« Reply #13 on: 26 June 2002, 02:45 »
There has been an issue with the GXP120 series but IBM has retracted the statement since.
The drives have been succesfully tested in a 24/7 environment.
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« Reply #14 on: 26 June 2002, 23:24 »
Western Digitals have problems too but mostly on the 30GB ones...
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