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There have been several comments regarding Linux's uptime rollover, as
related to the netcraft surveys. Amusingly enough, I came across one the
other day.
<http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=www.ci...>
shows what looks to be 2 machines on a cluster, one which rolled over in
September of 2002, and one, in what looks like, December of 2002.

Now, it's possible, that both machines rebooted, at approx 497 days,
(one machine, shows a max uptime of 496.09 days. ) But I'd guess, and
that's all it is, that it simply rolled over, and is happily trundling
it's way to another year of uptime. Sweet.

As an aside, Micros~1 used to run a competing service, (which they
bought from someone else) called sidewalk, But it looks like Citysearch
bought sidewalk from Micros~1 a few years ago. <http://www.sidewalk.com>
redirects you to the same IP serving citysearch.

The reason I looked at those urls on Netcraft, was because of the url of
the "new kind of war" that was posted here recently (even though the
article was 3 years old or so.) The sidewalk service, was listed as part
of Micros~1 campaign in such a "War" guess they had a mini Dunkirk...

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> As an aside, Micros~1 used to run a competing service, (which they
> bought from someone else) called sidewalk, But it looks like Citysearch
> bought sidewalk from Micros~1 a few years ago. <http://www.sidewalk.com>
> redirects you to the same IP serving citysearch.

    An example demonstrating that you cannot make money _with_ WinDOS,
    only by selling temporary licenses to use it.

    Not even MS can make money by just using it.

    See Wintrolls ?  It sounds as dumb when the table is turned.

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> Now, it's possible, that both machines rebooted, at approx 497 days,
> (one machine, shows a max uptime of 496.09 days. ) But I'd guess, and
> that's all it is, that it simply rolled over, and is happily trundling
> it's way to another year of uptime. Sweet.

2^32 centiseconds is 497.10 days. Are times when those runs began avilable?
If so, one could use them as hint wheither it was rollover or reboot. It can't
rule out reboot enterely (too inaccurate, <5-second granularity would be
needed), but it can serve as strong hint.

-Ilari
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Yup. It is the completion which drives advancement. Monopolies deter
it. -- Ilari Liusvaara
Linux LK_Perkele_IV9 2.4.20-lsm1 #7 Sun Jan 12 12:49:06 EET 2003 i686 unknown
  8:18pm  up 48 days,  7:18,  8 users,  load average: 0.03, 0.08, 0.08