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Re: setup.exe --quiet-mode


Dave Korn wrote:
Matthew Woehlke wrote on 11 September 2008 17:08:

Phil Betts wrote:
[...] this is
Windowsland where rebooting is a way of life; even Windows'
programmers never expected uptime to exceed 2^32 milliseconds.
(That's approximately 49 days for those too lazy to whip out a
calculator. Which is pretty sad ;-).)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216641 "Computer Hangs After 49.7 Days"

Oy, hadn't run across that before :-).


I'd actually be quite shocked if I don't have some Windows boxes around
that have exceeded that (at least since NT5). I think I've kept my home
computer up longer (back when it ran W2K), and likely some lab machines
around work (which, granted, never have software or updates installed,
so no reason to reboot).

It was only ever true for Win95 and early versions of Win98. All NT-series OSs count time in units of 100ns using a 64-bit long long. Which won't run out any time soon....

Aww, you don't think a Windows box will manage an uptime of 29,227,102 years? ;-)


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