[ale] Up for 1 year

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 09:49, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> 
> 
>>Not quite that cool, but here's my primary email/samba server's uptime...
>> 9:48am  up 410 day(s), 15:44,  1 user,  load average: 0.16, 0.13, 0.59
>>
>>Jonathan Glass
> 
> 
> The friend that introduced me to Linux had a Slackware box that had been
> up for nearly 2 years. The department was moving to a new building and
> it was going to need to be switched off. We spent nearly a week toying
> with ways to keep power applied safely while the box was carried down 5
> floors and 2 blocks down the street to the basement of the new science
> center at GSU. The limiting factors were : it was not already on a UPS
> (they were still VERY expensive in 1995 for a University budget for a
> grad student computer) and it was already powered up so soldering jumper
> leads to existing power connectors while powered on just didn't seem
> like a good idea.
> 
> End result was safety won out and we powered it off. :(

wimps.

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