From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 18:23:55 +1000 From: Adrian Tritschler Subject: Re: [9fans] disk/^(mbr format fdisk prep) In-reply-to: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <200405151823.56285.ajft@ajft.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7c080870-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, 14 May 2004 19:17, Kenji Okamoto wrote: > > Not everyone lives in a region when blackouts last for hours > > occasionally. > > The last time when we experienced blackout without pre-announcement, > I don't remember it. Probably it may before 30 years ago. =E2=98=BA Wow. No big blackouts here, just lots 'n lots of little ones. Here in the third world...Ok, Melbourne, Australia, I'm lucky if the PC at= =20 home runs for four weeks without a power outage that forces a reboot. They= =20 might only be momentary, maybe upto few seconds, but resetting every clock = in=20 the phone, the microwave, the alarms, etc, around the place is getting to b= e=20 a major pain. The wonder that is our privatised electricity network, maximum profit, mini= mum=20 maintenance... 1 123 days, 06:17:47 | Linux 2.4.20 Mon Jun 2 18:19:15 2= 003 2 110 days, 19:51:16 | Linux 2.4.20 Wed Dec 4 20:53:55 2= 002 3 52 days, 00:01:53 | Linux 2.4.18 Tue Sep 3 17:53:52 2= 002 4 34 days, 21:38:02 | Linux 2.4.24 Tue Feb 24 18:38:53 2= 004 5 32 days, 03:53:20 | Linux 2.4.20 Fri Apr 4 18:47:57 2= 003 6 23 days, 14:42:10 | Linux 2.4.20 Sun Oct 5 19:46:50 2= 003 7 22 days, 23:30:03 | Linux 2.4.18 Thu Oct 31 16:53:11 2= 002 =2D> 8 21 days, 22:18:38 | Linux 2.4.25 Fri Apr 23 19:34:18= 2004 9 15 days, 10:36:07 | Linux 2.4.24 Tue Mar 30 16:55:21 2= 004 10 14 days, 00:01:04 | Linux 2.4.20 Sat May 17 16:19:53 2= 003 11 12 days, 20:01:49 | Linux 2.4.22 Thu Nov 6 21:46:13 2= 003 12 11 days, 03:27:08 | Linux 2.4.18 Sat Nov 23 16:24:55 2= 002 13 10 days, 05:12:44 | Linux 2.4.20 Tue May 6 22:45:37 2= 003 No comments on the OS, please! And don't tell me I should buy a UPS, I thi= nk=20 I already know that. Adrian > Kenji