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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. Yes, Christine Maggiore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Some kind of bug, not HIV though.

    1. Re:Yes, Christine Maggiore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That woman was evil. Can't say I am glad when anyone dies, but she pisses me off. She should have died in prison.

  2. Re:boxen! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The plural of box is boxes. Trying for some flip geek cool (if such a thing could ever actually exist) merely shows ignorance. I still fail to understand how you people can act the way you do, arrogance, ignorance, lies about anything that does not meet your philosophical bent, etc, and not see how it negatively affects the image of this crowd, and ANYTHING we advocate. If we behave like idiots, we can advocate the greatest OS in the world, and no one will care. This is probably why there will never be a year of the linux desktop.

  3. Re:Well, after drinking a couple of beers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, as usual, I lubed up a jar and started carefully pushing it into my anus...

    And then you can imagine what happened. I'm still pulling out the glass shards.