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Anyone Besides Zune Owners With New Year's Crashes?

Posted by timothy on from the coincidences-abound dept.

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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  1. No. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No.

    You are alone. Very, very alone.

  2. Well this is obvious... by oskard · · Score: 5, Funny

    My Microsoft Windows desktop 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 5 hours and other than the occasional BSOD and Windows updates, it has not crashed more than 1 or 2 times in 174,237 seconds of cumulative uptime. Nothing other than spyware, malware, and System Idle Process were running at the time of the crash.

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    1. Re:Well this is obvious... by oskard · · Score: 5, Funny

      It was just a joke, sorry, I don't want anyone's shit on me :(

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    2. Re:Well this is obvious... by Forty+Two+Tenfold · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ever heard of OLPC project? Heeere's the result!

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  3. No problems by sdo1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nope. Everything's fine here in New Ampst

    <carrier lost>

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  4. Re:Errrrrrr by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because thinking rationally is hard.

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  5. Mysteriously coincidental with this event.. by vorlich · · Score: 5, 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 ...

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  6. Re:Probably coincidence. by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes. People are wired to see causality everywhere, even where there is none.

    So you see a pattern in people's behavior? ;)

  7. Re:SKY TV set top box by sentientbeing · · 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.

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  8. Re:boxen! by TaoPhoenix · · Score: 5, Funny

    On Debian, RHEL, Centos & Boxen! On Irix, Solaris, Ibex & Vixen!

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  9. Re:Well, after drinking a couple of beers by rishistar · · 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.

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  10. Re:test by LunarCrisis · · Score: 5, Funny

    You guys aren't thinking far enough. A time machine is clearly in order!

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  11. Re:Well, after drinking a couple of beers by Sebilrazen · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the parent to copy and paste their post with just the mouse had to have been a nightmare.

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