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  • Paddy
    Super MURCer
    • Mar 2000
    • 6067

    #1

    Dan's Data :)

    Just reading an article when i came across this:




    You gotta love Dan's Data
    The Welsh support two teams when it comes to rugby. Wales of course, and anyone else playing England
  • KvHagedorn
    Super MURCer
    • Aug 1999
    • 10725

    #2
    49.7 days eh? Since when could a win 95/98 computer stay up that long anyhow?

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    • Paddy
      Super MURCer
      • Mar 2000
      • 6067

      #3
      Indeed
      The Welsh support two teams when it comes to rugby. Wales of course, and anyone else playing England

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      • Brian Ellis
        Super MURCer
        • Sep 1999
        • 9623

        #4
        Well, I suppose it might do, provided you booted up and then did nothing
        Brian (the devil incarnate)

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        • SpiralDragon
          Super MURCer
          • May 2002
          • 3548

          #5
          even them its a strech
          "They say that dreams are real only as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?"

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          • Ribbit
            Super MURCer
            • Apr 2001
            • 1174

            #6
            This is no doubt a timing wraparound issue. 49.7 days is the amount of time it would take a 32-bit counter to overflow at 1000Hz. I remember Linux on the Alpha once had a similar problem where the floppy drive would stop working after that time

            Trust Ribbit to be the nerd who feels the need to explain this stuff...
            Blah blah blah nick blah blah confusion, blah blah blah blah frog.

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            • Paddy
              Super MURCer
              • Mar 2000
              • 6067

              #7
              LOL
              The Welsh support two teams when it comes to rugby. Wales of course, and anyone else playing England

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              • RedRed
                Super MURCer
                • May 2000
                • 2423

                #8
                I have seen simmilar on a delphi app....

                20 - odd days and if you click on a scroll bar in a particular object the PC hangs....

                (Actually it technically didnt - it takes like 10 days to do the scroll!

                Click on the arrows and you are ok.... weird.....

                RedRed
                Dont just swallow the blue pill.

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