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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?"

5 of 480 comments (clear)

  1. Catastrophe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I crashed into this.

  2. Yes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I crashed my friend's car on the way home from a party last night. Thankfully, I was able to run before the cops caught me.

  3. Re:Well this is obvious... by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Troll

    You don't enjoy it when a hot girl ties you down, injects a pint of saline into your nutsack, shoves a glass rod up your urethra, and shits on your chest? To each his own, pervert.

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  4. Re:driver by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wrong, the Zune Millenium+9 bug was actually M$ trying any odd cheasy plan to show off their peace of junk no one wants anyway.

    Maybe if we are lucky we might they might even get mices to bug (hurray, at last we'll have found what's so special about their bluetrack bs)

    cheers

  5. Re:No. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Of course he's alone. He runs Linux.