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RE: setup.exe --quiet-mode
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'Look out for the The Vulgar and Unprofessional Y22k Bug Cygwin-Talk List'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:39:11 +0100
- Subject: RE: setup.exe --quiet-mode
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Matthew Woehlke wrote on 11 September 2008 17:08:
> Phil Betts wrote:
>> [...] this is
>> Windowsland where rebooting is a way of life; even Windows'
>> programmers never expected uptime to exceed 2^32 milliseconds.
>
> (That's approximately 49 days for those too lazy to whip out a
> calculator. Which is pretty sad ;-).)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216641
"Computer Hangs After 49.7 Days"
> I'd actually be quite shocked if I don't have some Windows boxes around
> that have exceeded that (at least since NT5). I think I've kept my home
> computer up longer (back when it ran W2K), and likely some lab machines
> around work (which, granted, never have software or updates installed,
> so no reason to reboot).
It was only ever true for Win95 and early versions of Win98. All NT-series
OSs count time in units of 100ns using a 64-bit long long. Which won't run
out any time soon....
cheers,
DaveK
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