From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 5 18:40:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9875715266; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 18:39:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA17293; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 13:08:13 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA09304; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 13:07:41 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990306130741.N490@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 13:07:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Bill Fumerola , "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: "Ron G. Minnich" , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Microsoft dies after 47 days (was: Moving on and check out my .sig) References: <36DDB131.630AF7F1@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Bill Fumerola on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 01:54:43PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [moving from -hackers to -chat] On Thursday, 4 March 1999 at 13:54:43 -0500, Bill Fumerola wrote: > 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? http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q216/6/41.asp Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message