Anyone Besides Zune Owners With New Year's Crashes?

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?"

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Re:Well this is obvious...

[Ecuador]

The original comment was not a troll since he could have been referring to Windows Vista, or even a typical user's infested Windows XP.
I also have an XP at home mainly as a HTPC, and it has never crashed in about a year of running 24/7 (similar record to my Suse desktop), but I would certainly not call myself a typical user (I don't have even an anti-virus installed). My friends' PC's that I have to fix from time to time though, are a much different story, due to the "typical" users inability to protect themselves from viruses, adware and installation of crap software.
Now, Vista is a different "beast". I got one in the office for cases where a VM is not enough and the damn thing hangs and reboots randomly from the start, with only Visual Studio and Office installed. SP1 has not helped, so I still have to do everything I need from Windows on a VM. I must say that machine matches the original posts premise perfectly.