Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 13:07:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@sarnoff.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Microsoft dies after 47 days (was: Moving on and check out my .sig) Message-ID: <19990306130741.N490@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.990304135414.3628D-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>; from Bill Fumerola on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 01:54:43PM -0500 References: <36DDB131.630AF7F1@newsguy.com> <Pine.HPP.3.96.990304135414.3628D-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>
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[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
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