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

Steve Furlong sfurlong at acmenet.net
Tue Sep 28 12:55:45 PDT 2004


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.





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