NationStates Jolt Archive

No, not that of your computer; that of your mind. How long have you been awake? I have now been so for ~24 hours.

It has been an interesting night, with coffe drinking, the consuming of tasty stuff, near-constant programming combined with the reading about particular aspects of it, giggling maniacally after entering a somewhat questionable (as far as sanity goes) thought pattern, waiting for downloads to finish, playing some skin flute, and my first attempt at self-modifying code and successful use of asm.

Sadly, this morning was also the first day of the new school term. I stayed alert though, and even drank some more coffee when I had the chance. (my stomach appears to have grown stronger recently; now it can handle more)

I still haven't got more than slightly tired, so I guess I will stay up for a few more hours, resuming my programming.

No, not that of your computer; that of your mind. How long have you been awake? I have now been so for ~24 hours.

It has been an interesting night, with coffe drinking, the consuming of tasty stuff, near-constant programming combined with the reading about particular aspects of it, giggling maniacally after entering a somewhat questionable (as far as sanity goes) thought pattern, waiting for downloads to finish, playing some skin flute, and my first attempt at self-modifying code and successful use of asm.

Sadly, this morning was also the first day of the new school term. I stayed alert though, and even drank some more coffee when I had the chance. (my stomach appears to have grown stronger recently; now it can handle more)

I still haven't got more than slightly tired, so I guess I will stay up for a few more hours, resuming my programming.

You really need a girlfriend.

Maybe a dog....

A big goofy dog......

My "uptime"? About 15 minutes.


*yawns*


Good morning, NS General (well, good afternoon really, but eh).

About 2 1/2 hours right now. Although I'm likely to do nothing but post here all day, so I don't know quite why I bothered.

I rarely sleep, but I'd like to think I'd wake up around 6am, if I did.

14 hours, 3 hours to downtime

12 hours, 45 mins. But it feels more than that.

When you're chockablock with hormones, at the peak of organic vitality (say 16-18 years), and the world is still making allowances for you because you're young, but you have most of the brain you'll ever have, I say ... the clock is your enemy. Your hours are worth more than the standard hour.

Smash the compacent little bastard. Take it out the back (if you have a back yard) and smash it into kitty-crunch with an axe (if you have an ax). If you live in a high-rise, just open a window and chuck it as far as you can. If you can't open a window, smash one.
Plenty more sensible advice coming. Read on.

That clever artifice is nothing more than a demon in a box.
Or, it's a box with wires and stuff in it, which keeps accurate time. It marks your time against an oscillating crystal, and holds the grain of sand above your life.

Mariners, before mechanical clocks got good, could tell their latitude within a few degrees, by which stars were visible. By the stars, the local time was always known, but the absolute time deviated the more days you spent away from a known longitude.
For landlubbers, consorting together and consulting sundials, time was a more certain thing. It was generally in accord, formalised by the construction of a Towne Cloche, and used to regulate business. Learnt that from playing Call to Power, I did.

And which of these strands of timekeeping holds sway today?
Is it a lifesaving grace, a great privelege to know the exact celestial time?
Or is it your obligation to abide by the publicly acknowledged time?

Smash the nasty little thing, I say. Uptime is for operating systems.

Get a dog. Feed him/her just before you go to bed. When the dog starts whining and nudging their food bowl, you know it's the normal bedtime. Trust the dog.

Is that totally insane? Feed a dog at 10 pm?
Feeding a dog at a regular time is completely insane. It's anthropomorphism, or worse. I'm saying, a hungry dog as a timepiece is better than a clock: it's more regular (never wrong by 12 hours!), it takes account of your own perception of time (really, they cut you some slack on the daily walk if you're really busy, and when they gratuitously seek your attention, it's usually because you're achieving nothing and simply wasting time -- dogs are cool, and so are cats) and this: if you tell the boss that your dog (cat, whatever) didn't wake you up when they usually do, as opposed to "the battery must have run down in my clock," they're going to think "that's kind of silly, but hey, dogs are alright. It's not really the dog's fault, or <employee>s fault" ... as opposed to "cretinous employee can't be bothered buying a decent clock, must be spending all their money on drugs."

That was an very long sentence. I'll leave it there.

It's 8:31am here, I have been up for 4 hours, I will be up for another 14-16 hours. Today is my "long day", most days are only 16 hour days, just not you know Sunday, Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.........wait........how many days are in a week again?

It's 8:31am here, I have been up for 4 hours, I will be up for another 14-16 hours. Today is my "long day", most days are only 16 hour days, just not you know Sunday, Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.........wait........how many days are in a week again?
Ahh, Smunkee, you always make me smile :)

390 days ...

Oh wait not computer uptime, my max ever was 96 hours ... I have only been up 1 hour 45 minuits today. Actualy got sleep (layed block at a friends house all weekend, now I know why I will NEVER be a mason lol)

37 minutes, thank you very much. I must shower shortly though.

I've been up for almost 13 hours, and the night before I had less than 5 hours sleep. Bah.

I've been up for 5 hours but my personal record is 50 hours

Maybe thirty hours?

Oh, you mean today, not ever. Sorry.

I've been up for five hours. Thanks to a shower and two cups of hot chocolate, I am awake and alert. I get up at 6:45 to go to work, where I arrive at 7:30. Then I go home at 3:30 and miss the traffic. it's nice.

My record for most uptime is 42 hours, and it involved energy drinks, slapping myself to stay awake at times, and sadly, a few hours behind the wheel of a car.

No, not that of your computer;

17:54:21 up 47 min, 2 users, load average: 0.52, 0.46, 0.45.

Mäh, jag drog det ändå. :p

17:54:21 up 47 min, 2 users, load average: 0.52, 0.46, 0.45.

Mäh, jag drog det ändå. :p
Geek I can recognize a top output :)

Geek I can recognize a top output :)

It was actually a "w" output, but I do believe top uses it, so it's the same, yeah.

The uptime just went back to five minutes. I forgot to shut down windows properly -> couldn't mount the partition with write through ntfs-3g. *sigh*

Coming up on 16 hours. Still need to type that damned report...

It was actually a "w" output, but I do believe top uses it, so it's the same, yeah.

The uptime just went back to five minutes. I forgot to shut down windows properly -> couldn't mount the partition with write through ntfs-3g. *sigh*
AH alright was so simmilar
(top)
last pid: 76391; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 390+22:37:52 11:27:24
63 processes: 1 running, 62 sleeping

2 hours. I should still be asleep, but my jackass little brother decided that throwing a tantrum just outside my room was the best way to wake me up on my birthday.

:mad:

AH alright was so simmilar
(top)
last pid: 76391; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 390+22:37:52 11:27:24
63 processes: 1 running, 62 sleeping

Do you like ever do anything?

Been up for almost 12 hours now. Won't go to bed til 11.30.



No wonder I've been so tired lately!

Do you like ever do anything?
That is not my main machine it is a backup server ... so it handles file transfers and thats about it

That is not my main machine it is a backup server ... so it handles file transfers and thats about it

Cheater, of course it has impressive uptimes, then.

8 hours and 46 mins, more or less.

Cheater, of course it has impressive uptimes, then.
Hey it is a PERSONAL server (it is a little ol compaq p3)

Anyways this is my ubuntu box

top - 11:47:38 up 14 days, 19:22, 4 users, load average: 1.01, 1.01, 1.00
Tasks: 83 total, 3 running, 80 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie


(just knoticed the format is different the first one was FreeBSD this one is Ubuntu)

Hey it is a PERSONAL server (it is a little ol compaq p3)

Anyways this is my ubuntu box

top - 11:47:38 up 14 days, 19:22, 4 users, load average: 1.01, 1.01, 1.00
Tasks: 83 total, 3 running, 80 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie

(just knoticed the format is different the first one was FreeBSD this one is Ubuntu)

Now, that looks more reasonable, even if those 14 days are officially bad for the environment. Yeah, that's the ticket...

Now, that looks more reasonable, even in those 14 days are officially bad for the environment. Yeah, that's the ticket...
Lol its doing a prime computation for a local contest

(oh on a side note new version of gaim fixed some of thoes issues you were seeing with msn (unless I am confused and it was posi I was talking to) http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=440695&group_id=235 )

my personal uptime is around 48 hours but my friends have done it for 4 days.How?I have no clue.

Lol its doing a prime computation for a local contest

They have contests in this? Nerds!

(oh on a side note new version of gaim fixed some of thoes issues you were seeing with msn (unless I am confused and it was posi I was talking to) http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=440695&group_id=235 )

It must have been Posi. I've had no issues with the Gaim beta.

They have contests in this? Nerds!



It must have been Posi. I've had no issues with the Gaim beta.
Lol just a local work thing ... we are geeks we are but I managed to push a p4 2.5 past a dual core macbook (only running one core for the app) ... the file is now to 3. something gig almost 1 billion listing

sleep is for the weak.....



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....

and i am very weak

Longest natural uptime: 57 hours

longest chemicaly enhanced uptime: 75 hours

Current uptime: 15 hours

all measurements are aproximate

Lol its doing a prime computation for a local contest

(oh on a side note new version of gaim fixed some of thoes issues you were seeing with msn (unless I am confused and it was posi I was talking to) http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=440695&group_id=235 )
I regularly use gaim (1.3) ... bizarrely enough, yesterday it began crashing whenever it tried to connect. I didn't update anything, and all of a sudden it stops working.

I regularly use gaim (1.3) ... bizarrely enough, yesterday it began crashing whenever it tried to connect. I didn't update anything, and all of a sudden it stops working.
Hmmm no issues here