[c-nsp] Long Uptime

[Ziv Leyes]

Hey Ted, (off topic) why would you sell such a nice car? It's a classic! I'd love to get one and pimp it!


-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:tedm at mittelstaedt.us] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 7:07 AM
To: Sridhar Ayengar
Cc: Ziv Leyes; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Long Uptime

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Ziv Leyes wrote:
>> I second that, besides, back then, there were not so many bugs as 
>> today, as with every new feature and more complex technology comes 
>> also a lot of bugs.
>> When systems were simpler, there were less problems, how many times do 
>> you remember having to hard reset your PC when using DOS 6.2 because 
>> it "hanged" and nothing else could be done?? Also, the exploits that 
>> might be there on such an old device are SO old that nobody will think 
>> to try, is like to try to find a computer with "Netbus" Trojan open 
>> for you to just hack in... heheh
> 
> Besides that, there are operating systems that can be updated without a 
> reboot.
> 

I once had a FreeBSD system at a customer site acting as a NAT router, a
486/33 with 200MB disk drive - uptime of 3 years on it.

This was before the days of sub-$100  1605's on Ebay.

The biggest obstacle to the super-long uptimes is electrical power,
IMHO.  You have to have a pretty expensive UPS that will allow
hot-swapping to even get into the game.

Speaking of long-running times for computers - I sold a 1984 Chevy
2 years ago that had a computer-controlled carb in it - while it
wasn't running continuously for 23 years, I have no doubt the thing
is still trundling along the highways today.

Ted

 
 
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