Scott Hanselman

Windows 2000 site goes over two years without a reboot

This month is the first time that a Windows 2000 site has appeared in the 50 top sites which have the longest period of time since last reboot. www.byteandswitch.com has been running continuously since November 2000. When we first started graphing web servers uptime in the summer of 2000, many people were skeptical that a Windows machine would ever make the top 50. Perceptions change, and although two years is exceptional, several Windows 2000 sites have run for more than a year without a reboot. In the hosting industry, Microsoft partners Interliant and Divine each have sites that have not been rebooted in over a year, while Microsoft has also run several of its own sites for over a year between reboots. 

Heh...Remember the Windows 9x 49.7 day bug?

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My dentist said to me, "If you don't floss, then you might as well not bother brushing."

I have ammended this to "If you don't write Unit Tests, then you might as well not bother coding."

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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/25/1245206

"Since about midnight EST almost every host on the internet has been receiving a 376 byte UDP payload on port ms-sql-m (1434) from a random infected server. Reports of some hosts receiving 10 per minute or more. internetpulse.net is reporting UUNet and Internap are being hit very hard. This is the cause of major connectivity problems being experienced worldwide. It is believed this worm leverages a vulnerability published in June 2002. Several core routers have taken to blocking port 1434 outright. If you run Microsoft SQL Server, make sure the public internet can't access it. If you manage a gateway, consider dropping UDP packets sent to port 1434." bani adds "This has effectively disabled 5 of the 13 root nameservers."

Installing SQL Server SQL 3 fixes this problem!  It pays to stay up to date (and get up early on a Saturday and walk straight over to your computer...)

Details at the links below:

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sqlexp.worm.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/370308
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/399260
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/484891

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A reminder on coding standards and best practices from Jim Little:

Shu: Learn the rules.  Practice them religously.
Ha: Break the rules.  Learn where they don’t apply.
Ri: Leave the rules.  Use rules as a tool, nothing more.  (also, “Make the rules.”)

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ShuHaRi
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ThreeLevelsOfAudience

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I need to stop with this piece of...Radio Userland sucks my left ass.  I just lost everything in this stupid editor because radio's use of the IE HTML Editor ate it.  Crap.  I'd use the Mail-To-WebLog if it supported Titles.  Sigh.  Why does Dave Winer have time to post 8000 things a day, but noone in his organization bothers to read their own support newsgroup?  Haven't we been on Version 8.08 for a 11 months?

Question of the day: How do I export my entire Radio Userland life into one MEGA RSS file for archival (read: moving to another tool) purposes ?

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