Anyone Besides Zune Owners With New Year's Crashes? 480
aputerguy writes "My Fedora 8 Linux server crashed sometime between 18:59:40 EST (GMT -5:00) and 19:00:00 EST (GMT -5:00) on Dec 31, 2008 which remarkably corresponds to within at most 20 seconds of the New Year in GMT. I have been running this same hardware non-stop for more than six years and other than the occasional reboot for kernel (or distro) upgrades, it has not crashed more than 1 or 2 times in 2237 days of cumulative uptime. Nothing other than background processes were running at the time of the crash. Could this be a coincidence or was there some 2008/2009 rollover issue going on here? Has anyone (other than Zune 30GB owners) noticed similar year-end issues with their computers or electronic devices?"
Well (Score:4, Funny)
Well, you know what they say, this wouldn't have happened with Red Hat.
Well, after drinking a couple of beers (Score:4, Funny)
No. (Score:5, Funny)
No.
You are alone. Very, very alone.
Well this is obvious... (Score:5, Funny)
No problems (Score:5, Funny)
Nope. Everything's fine here in New Ampst
Re:Errrrrrr (Score:5, Funny)
Because thinking rationally is hard.
Re:Well this is obvious... (Score:5, Funny)
Mysteriously coincidental with this event.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Probably coincidence. (Score:5, Funny)
So you see a pattern in people's behavior? ;)
Crashy box crashes, you say? (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently, you have pre-existing stability problems with this box. The fact that it crashed yet again yesterday should come as no great surprise.
Anyone With New Year's Toast Accidents (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Well (Score:5, Funny)
Nobody got fired for going with Redhat?
Re:Well (Score:3, Funny)
Re:SKY TV set top box (Score:5, Funny)
A similar thing, though probably unrelated to the leap second - my parents VHS clock has been flashing 12:00 since 1986.
It would probably bring bad luck for the new year to set it correctly for 2009, so I think ill leave it.
Re:boxen! (Score:5, Funny)
On Debian, RHEL, Centos & Boxen! On Irix, Solaris, Ibex & Vixen!
Re:Well, after drinking a couple of beers (Score:5, Funny)
Being more refined, I spilt a Gin & Tonic all over my keyboard. The keyboard doesn't work now - maybe it was the drink, but as it was an MS jobby I'm willing to bet it was a Zune like crash. Crappy Microsoft products.
Re:No problems (Score:3, Funny)
You guys still on Dialup? Want an AOL coaster?
Re:test (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Errrrrrr (Score:5, Funny)
Its more fun to be paranoid. Join the club. No wait, we don't trust you to join you might be one of 'them'.
Re:Mysteriously coincidental with this event.. (Score:3, Funny)
my cat hid under the bed at almost 25 seconds into the New Year. Right after he heard the first of the fireworks. However he did restart normally about 22 minutes later after a soothing saucer of milk. I wonder if ...
FYI, servers don't restart if you give them a saucer of milk, no matter how soothing it is.
Re:No problems (Score:3, Funny)
I guess the real lesson here is that it's spelled New Amst
Re:Well this is obvious... (Score:3, Funny)
This thread is relevant to my interests...
Re:Well this is obvious... (Score:5, Funny)
Ever heard of OLPC project? Heeere's the result!
Re:Well, after drinking a couple of beers (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well, after drinking a couple of beers (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, I spilled Gin & Tonic on my laptop a few months ago. I had to replace the Keyboard. Frickin' Vista...
Re:Probably coincidence. (Score:3, Funny)
Once, at the end of the staff meeting I was holding, I casually mentioned that I noticed that 40% of all sick leave were taken on Fridays and Mondays.
Immediately, 2 people jumped out and said it was an outrage, and that we should do something about it. That something like this shouldn't be happening.
*sigh*
Re:boxen! (Score:2, Funny)
Trying for some flip geek cool (if such a thing could ever actually exist) merely shows ignorance
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer says hi. You might not be able to hear him, though I don't know whether to blame the fact that the joke went miles over your head, or that you're wearing your asscheeks as earmuffs.
Re:Errrrrrr (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, he needs a faster hard drive.
Re:SKY TV set top box (Score:2, Funny)
Barbie says "Programming is hard!".
Re:Time Mathematics and Microsoft (Score:3, Funny)
Try once yourself to code conversion from "seconds since 1/1/1970 00:00:00" to any other user digestible presentation.
It's not as easy as it might seem.
Done:
$ perl -MHTTP::Date -e 'print time2str(1230796800)';
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT
Re:No. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Well, after drinking a couple of beers (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fedora 8 locked up here (Score:4, Funny)
I was my DHCP server, so the network went down.
I was my DHCP server too (I entered my DHCP responses on a hex keypad) but then I got dnsmasq, and now the computer hands out addresses for me.
Re:Probably coincidence. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Well this is obvious... (Score:3, Funny)
Hey now, 4chan /b/ is funny sometimes.
Hang on, I'll get you an example.
nevermind.
Re:Mysteriously coincidental with this event.. (Score:4, Funny)
Is that a cat-5 or cat-6? Is re-installing M.I.L.K. a normal procedure? I understand some models have patches available after a fix, is your model fixed?