An official slightly off topic anouncement

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[irc] $ uptime
5:22PM  up 463 days, 12:26, 8 users, load averages: 0.05, 0.09, 0.09
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How's that for an uptime?

Erik Heil wrote:
> Hello
> A few months of uptime is nothing in the Linux world.  I've seen boxes that 
> I personally have here been up for over 380 days of uptime.  In fact, the 
> only reason why it was rebooted was do to massive power failures which is 
> obviously beyond my control.  Given the upgrade of kernels, you obviously 
> can't count that against uptime.  Honestly, I can't recommend Windows for 
> any sort of environment.  Security concerns are way to numerous.  Every 
> week, you hear about potential problems that may allow people to take 
> control of you're computer.  Any real operating system would not have been 
> released with such glaring bugs.  Just demonstrates that Microsoft is not 
> able to write stable software, and is more concerned with market share 
> than with quality of the end product.
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