From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 4 11:29:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hp9000.chc-chimes.com (hp9000.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8991150C4 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:29:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost by hp9000.chc-chimes.com with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA195423683; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 13:54:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 13:54:43 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: "Ron G. Minnich" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving on and check out my .sig In-Reply-To: <36DDB131.630AF7F1@newsguy.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Note my .sig. 49.7 days is how long it takes a 32-bit millisecond counter > > to roll over to zero. It's kind of hilarious that nobody seems to have had > > windows up that long until now. > > What's worse is that this problem looks obvious. I wonder if whoever > was responsible for this part of the code did not simply think along > the line "Windows running for 49 days straight? Get real!" A mentioned this to a few of my co-workers who responded, "what part of Windows". Is there a page that has the gory details somewhere? - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message