Re: How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 14:37, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:

"The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to prevent a data overload, a union official told the LA Times." That would be 49.710269618055555555555555555556 days, or (curiously enough) 4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF) milliseconds. Known problem with Win95 ('cept they call Win95 a "server").

How the heck do they keep a Win95 machine up for 49 days? I think 1 day is a more realistic MTBF.