Prosthetically Hip

So, I decided to recently take a look at the box that runs my email, in addition to running DNS and some web for me. It’s not a very beefy box by any means, but it’s been stable as hell for a long time. By a long time, I mean ~9 years - it’s a paltry 400MHz. I shit you not.

willt@cog ~ $ date; uptime; uname -a; cat /proc/cpuinfo
Wed Apr 4 17:16:29 CDT 2007
17:16:29 up 238 days, 14:16, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.06, 0.06
Linux cog 2.6.18-rc6 #1 PREEMPT Mon Sep 11 17:51:55 CDT 2006 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 5
model : 8
model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
stepping : 12
cpu MHz : 400.938
cache size : 64 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow k6_mtrr
bogomips : 802.47

I got this processor in ‘98 when it came out. It’s been running pretty much ever since.
To be fair, I did give it about a month and a half vacation in 2005 (Katrina).

I think that the most surprising/impressive thing about the above output is that the bike in which it lives hasn’t lost power, well, been out of power for longer than my humble UPS could provide, in ~8 months. This is the pseudo-famously-electrically-unstable Maringy Triangle, chirrens.