Long Linux uptimes aren't particularly big news anymore, but still, I
don't image it's all that often that one reaches the four-digit milestone:

	http://www.libpng.org/tmp/qube-uptime-sshot-20020311.png

This Cobalt Qube 1 (150 MHz QED MIPS R5000, 16 MB RAM, 2 GB disk, loosely
based on Red Hat, from what I can tell) was last rebooted in mid-June 1999
and hasn't been turned off in more than three years.  At that time it was
in Palo Alto, but it's been on two road trips since then and has survived
at least one two-hour rolling blackout, thanks to its low power usage (25W
max, 15W typical, supposedly) and 500 VA UPS.  It now lives in Sunnyvale,
and its uptime would be the full three years if somebody hadn't forgotten
that updating its network configuration over the network is a delicate
operation.  (Hint:  don't do "ifconfig eth0 down" via telnet.)  The Qube
doesn't have a keyboard or serial interface, so the only way to reconfigure
it at that point is to push the six little buttons on the back and reboot.

While it hasn't exactly led a strenuous life, it has been used as a low-key
web server and Majordomo server, and it's survived some occasional compiling.
Presumably the hard disk will be its undoing, but the dude should make it to
three or four years without too much trouble, and five isn't entirely out of
the question.  We shall see...

Regards,
-- 
Greg Roelofs