Hard to say. His message had a few different themes in it. He spoke about his dedication to the binary machine arts, but then confessed to using an expensive machine as a "door stop"?
And, he praises the use he's gotten from OBSD and the list, but then jinxes it by questioning its direction and bringing up the issue of its lifecycle. I just wanted to bring up the issue of idle time versus cpu time. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Der Engel > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 10:31 AM > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: OBSD: OS Of The Rad > > Umnada, > > Did you get his point? > > On 1/4/07, Umnada Tyrolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I came here to compute, to help inanimate machines do so, > well. -this > > > list, more than any other resource (including my old favorite > > > google.com/bsd) got me where I was going. The OS -how > long will it > > > last? I hope forever. But nothing lasts forever. I do > have an old > > > host that's been up for 1,248 days without reboot, i'm > sure there are > > > those on this list with longer. > > > > First of all, not everyone likes to share how long, but > thanks. Secondly, I > > think it's not the duration of up-time but rather cpu usage > time which says > > what kind of machine you have. > > > > You know what I mean? CPU usage (on a user machine, not > some bragbox) says > > what kind of software and hardware stresses have been > going. I've got over > > 5,961,600 seconds of cpu usage on this machine. And it's not all pf, > > spamassassin and mplayer. Not all.
