From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx.freeshell.org ([192.94.73.18] helo=sdf.lonestar.org ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HPqxF-0005SE-00 for ; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:05:05 -0500 Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (eheil@otaku.freeshell.org [192.94.73.2]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2A24sTD020987 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:04:54 GMT Received: (from eheil@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.8/8.12.8/Submit) id l2A24sxc023450; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:04:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:04:54 -0500 (EST) From: Erik Heil X-X-Sender: eheil@otaku.freeshell.org To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: An official slightly off topic anouncement In-Reply-To: <45F1DFD7.2090704@talkingirc.net> Message-ID: References: <02ae01c75b48$aee318c0$4ba65c90@vv507j> <20070309171155.GJ4176@rednote.net> <20070309185645.GB21362@gmx.net> <20070309193247.GA27700@taylor.homelinux.net> <45F1DFD7.2090704@talkingirc.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:05:05 -0000 Wow! That's excellent. I would have had something similar on a few of these boxes, if it weren't for a power failure and my misconfigured UPS. On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, ace wrote: > Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:29:43 -0500 > From: ace > Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: An official slightly off topic anouncement > > [irc] $ uptime > 5:22PM up 463 days, 12:26, 8 users, load averages: 0.05, 0.09, 0.09 > [irc] $ > > How's that for an uptime? > > Erik Heil wrote: >> Hello >> A few months of uptime is nothing in the Linux world. I've seen boxes that >> I personally have here been up for over 380 days of uptime. In fact, the >> only reason why it was rebooted was do to massive power failures which is >> obviously beyond my control. Given the upgrade of kernels, you obviously >> can't count that against uptime. Honestly, I can't recommend Windows for >> any sort of environment. Security concerns are way to numerous. Every >> week, you hear about potential problems that may allow people to take >> control of you're computer. Any real operating system would not have been >> released with such glaring bugs. Just demonstrates that Microsoft is not >> able to write stable software, and is more concerned with market share >> than with quality of the end product. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > eheil@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org