[OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

[Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)]

> From: DormitionSkete at hotmail.com [mailto:dormitionskete at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 11:42 PM
> 
> A Sun Solaris machine was shut down last week in Hungary, I think, after 3737
> days of uptime.  Below are links to the article and video.
>
> Warning:  It might bring a tear to your eye...

It would only bring a tear to my eye, because of how foolishly irresponsible that is.  3737 days of uptime means 10 years of never applying security patches and bugfixes.  Whenever people are proud of a really long uptime, it's a sign of a bad sysadmin.