[KLUG Advocacy] One year anniversary

[Adam Williams]

>>>>[marshall@megatron marshall]$ uptime
>>>> 10:46am  up 365 days, 16:44,  2 users,  load average: 0.40, 0.40, 0.36
>>>Cool!!! 
>>>I've never been able to keep power going that long.
>That's been a problem here at Chez Brown as well. 
>>What you need is a huge UPS and a redundant pair of natural gas powered
>>generators. :)
>What we need is a more reliable electric company, dammit! When I was 
>living in NY and NJ, we never had this frequency of short outages.

It has been getting better, at least here in G.R.  Of course anything
beats being on the O & A Electrical cooperative where a week without a
power outages was a phenomenon.

>>[root@littleboy /root]# uptime
>> 11:07pm  up 257 days, 17 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.42, 0.22, 0.13
>>barracuda:~ $uptime
>>11:07pm  up 415 days,  6:57,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>>root@firewall /root]# uptime
>>12:16am  up 353 days, 13:18,  2 users,  load average: 0.15, 0.03, 0.01
>>mie:/ $ uptime
>> 11:09PM   up 338 days,  10:24,  3 users,  load average: 1.55, 1.20, 1.13
>>[root@natches root]# uptime
>>11:09pm  up 108 days, 14:49,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>>But still only one has broken a year.  My limitation is having to
>>physically move things. :(
>Yes, but in less than 10 days, you'll have 2, and in less than 30 days, 3
>So that's not too shabby!
> Sadly, my uptime has suffered from a number of little problems, my longest
>at the moments is 251 days, which is when I rebooted the machine after 
>plugging it into a UPS. Before that I had 184 days of good service from it.
>With 9 machines here, only 3 of them are on a UPS, the ones I deem 
>essential for production. Of those, one is the machine with long uptime,
>another would match it, but got its power switch bumped into 134 days, 
>10 houra, 5 minutes ago, and a third had a problem with its wiring 
>harness that dropped it out 96 days 11 hours 12 minutes back.

That is in large part due to crappy PC hardware.  Only one of the above
boxes what would classically be considered a PC.

>It has been a rough year, but obvious to me is the factthat our favorite
>OS has not been the wek link in the chain, that's for sure!

True.