From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 5 22:29: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E51315051 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 22:28:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA15391; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 23:28:02 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36E0CAF1.3192DDB3@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 23:28:01 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Bill Fumerola , "Daniel C. Sobral" , "Ron G. Minnich" , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Microsoft dies after 47 days (was: Moving on and check out my .sig) References: <36DDB131.630AF7F1@newsguy.com> <19990306130741.N490@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > > [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 What's the likelihood of keeping a Win95/Win98 machine up for 49.7 days in the first place? One of my co-workers opined that this is rather like warning people if they manage to flap their arms fast enough to leave the atomosphere they will suffocate. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message