[ale] OT: mourning the end of an uptime...

[Randy Ramsdell]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 11:40 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Wed March 15 2006 11:29 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> > These days, if you have a box that's up very long, you're likely to
> > have a vulnerable kernel.  I can remember having uptimes over 1 year
> > on a couple of p75s I was using as firewalls.
> >
> > These days, I reboot after any kernel update.
> 
> not to mention video driver update..
> my NVIDIA driver has been updated a number of times, and every time I 
> do that I also reboot, I've never been successful just restarting X.
> 

Really? That is strange as you should never have to reboot for that
reason. I also update Nvidia drivers, but have never rebooted after
that.

rcr