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From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: christos gentsis <christos_gentsis@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
	linux-os@analogic.com,
	"Srinivas G." <srinivasg@esntechnologies.co.in>,
	linux-kernel-Mailing-list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! - Info of the day
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 12:20:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050514102051.GD18600@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4285C030.1080706@yahoo.co.uk>

On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:09:04AM +0100, christos gentsis wrote:
 
> BTW is there anyone that plan to use his embedded devise until 2038???? 
> i would happy to see that :P any way embedded devises are there so they 
> will have sort life cycle... how long are you going to use them 6 
> months???? maximum 1-2 years....
> so there is no any problem....

That depends on what you're building. If you're designing an ADSL router,
then yes, a few years are enough. If you're making a deep space probe,
considering that voyager and pioneer have been in space for more than
30 years, you might want to ensure there's no problem.

Regards,
Willy


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-14 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-13 11:43 Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! - Info of the day Srinivas G.
2005-05-13 11:48 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-05-13 12:17 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 16:07   ` Lee Revell
2005-05-13 12:22 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-05-13 12:27   ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 12:43     ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 20:36       ` Bill Davidsen
2005-05-13 20:47         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-13 21:07           ` Chris Friesen
2005-05-13 21:22             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-13 23:10               ` David Lang
2005-05-13 21:24           ` Alan Cox
2005-05-14  9:09           ` christos gentsis
2005-05-14  9:46             ` jnf
2005-05-14 10:37               ` christos gentsis
2005-05-14 10:20             ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2005-05-15 20:25           ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 14:37 ` DervishD
2005-05-13 15:19   ` randy_dunlap
2005-05-13 15:24     ` DervishD
2005-05-13 16:11 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-15 16:20 ` Helge Hafting
2005-05-16  2:09   ` Paul Jakma
2005-05-14 12:46 Matthew Geier
2005-05-14 20:27 ` christos gentsis
2005-05-14 21:19   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-15  1:04     ` Gene Heskett
     [not found] <43GQ7-5qy-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-05-14 13:41 ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>

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