Hey Ted, (off topic) why would you sell such a nice car? It's a classic! I'd love to get one and pimp it!
-----Original Message----- From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 7:07 AM To: Sridhar Ayengar Cc: Ziv Leyes; [email protected] Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Long Uptime Sridhar Ayengar wrote: > Ziv Leyes wrote: >> I second that, besides, back then, there were not so many bugs as >> today, as with every new feature and more complex technology comes >> also a lot of bugs. >> When systems were simpler, there were less problems, how many times do >> you remember having to hard reset your PC when using DOS 6.2 because >> it "hanged" and nothing else could be done?? Also, the exploits that >> might be there on such an old device are SO old that nobody will think >> to try, is like to try to find a computer with "Netbus" Trojan open >> for you to just hack in... heheh > > Besides that, there are operating systems that can be updated without a > reboot. > I once had a FreeBSD system at a customer site acting as a NAT router, a 486/33 with 200MB disk drive - uptime of 3 years on it. This was before the days of sub-$100 1605's on Ebay. The biggest obstacle to the super-long uptimes is electrical power, IMHO. You have to have a pretty expensive UPS that will allow hot-swapping to even get into the game. Speaking of long-running times for computers - I sold a 1984 Chevy 2 years ago that had a computer-controlled carb in it - while it wasn't running continuously for 23 years, I have no doubt the thing is still trundling along the highways today. Ted ************************************************************************************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. ************************************************************************************ ************************************************************************************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. ************************************************************************************ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
