Netware 3.12: 6030 Days 5 Hours 21 Minutes 19 Seconds

Non-Technical Threads Chatting over the Back Fence
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Nice:

‘Epic uptime achievement unlocked. Can you beat 16 years? | Ars
Technica’
(http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/epic-uptime-achievement-can-you-beat-16-years/)
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Sixteen and a half years later, INTEL’s hard disks—a pair of full height
5.25 inch 800 MB Quantum SCSI devices—are making some disconcerting
noises from their bearings, and you’re tired of the complaints. It’s
time to turn off the old warhorse.[/color]

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modicr

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modicr sounds like they ‘said’:
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Nice:

‘Epic uptime achievement unlocked. Can you beat 16 years? | Ars
Technica’
(http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/epic-uptime-ach
ievement-can-you-beat-16-years/)
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Sixteen and a half years later, INTEL’s hard disks�a pair of full
height 5.25 inch 800 MB Quantum SCSI devices�are making some
disconcerting noises from their bearings, and you’re tired of the
complaints. It’s time to turn off the old warhorse.[/color][/color]

So my response to modicr’s comment is…

Holy buckets! That thing had been running longer than I’ve worked
here…

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Stevo

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On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:40:41 +0000, Stevo wrote:
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Holy buckets! That thing had been running longer than I’ve worked
here…[/color]

My reaction was “on the one hand, that’s cool…on the other hand, no
Y2K updates or other patches? Is this admin crazy?” :wink:

Jim

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Jim Henderson, CNA6, CDE, CNI, LPIC-1, CLA10, CLP10
Novell Knowledge Partner

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Most of our Netware 6 servers were running at around 2-3 years when we
decommissioned them.
If only OES were that good.

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I used to be an eagle…

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the little netware box that could…

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gleach1

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I’m presently at 415 days. Was at 697 days before we relocated our
facilities.