My uptime on my Linux server is 112 days, and that's just because I had to install memory. My uptime on my Windows 98 laptop is about 1 day.
We had--until the middle of december--a linux box running mysql that served as the solitary authentication DB for our (the company I work for) website. Approximately 500k users in the database. About 200k active in a given week. The *mysql* instance had been running for 246 days. The machine under it for a little longer. It had run for several months before that, but it was moved from one building to another. For space and saftey reasons we moved it to a Sun 420 with a big disk cluster with Veratas. It crashed and burned within a month. Never fuck with a working box. -- A quote from Petro's Archives: ********************************************** "As someone who has worked both in private industry and in academia, whenever I hear about academics wanting to teach ethics to people in business, I want to puke."--Thomas Sowell.