[ale] uptime?

[adam]

Michael Trausch wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>> Michael Trausch wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>>>> 11:09am  up 771 days 14:30,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>>>>             ^^^
>>> I had a machine that I'd setup that was up for ~450 days... that is,
>>> until the power supply "lost its magic smoke".  :-/
>> Yep, we used to say, 'gotta keep the magic blue smoke inside the computer.'
> 
> In this case it was blackish.  Ahh, electrical component failure.  At
> least the server operating system was something sane like Linux, where
> the hard disk drives could be moved from one machine to another
> without issue.
> 
> The last time I tried that with a Windows > 5.0 (Windows 2000), it
> wanted a phone call to be made to Microsoft.  Right.  Because when you
> move a hard drive from one machine to another, you simply *must* have
> stolen it, right‽  *grumble*
> 
>    --- Mike
> 
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Was that an interrobang?!

Adam