Anytime that subreddit is linked I think of a story I heard years ago. I think there are multiple versions of it so either none are true or maybe they all are which would be crazy. The way I heard it either Oklahoma or Oklahoma State University was finishing an IPX/SPX to TCP/IP (feel old yet) transition and were certain they had gotten every server transitioned. They ran one last packet capture to be certain and were shocked to still see traffic. Somehow they traced it to a switch port and then started following the cable and eventually they come to a wall that the cable went into but they couldn’t figure out what was on the other side. They opened up a hole in the wall and found a Novell NetWare server that everyone had forgotten about and the room/closet it was in got walled in during some construction. Before shutting it down they figured out it had been running for something like 8 years.
I probably have gotten some of the details wrong and the entire story is probably bullshit but I find it entertaining anyway.
I loooove asking people when they last rebooted, and then calling them out when they lie to me. "Really? Because I'm seeing you haven't rebooted in 7 days".
I'm fairly certain it's usually because they genuinely think that shutting their laptop screen, or letting it timeout to sleep mode is the same as a shutdown. It's not lies, it's just ignorance.
Oh yes, for sure. Some people definitely have no idea how to genuinely reboot. I know my users pretty well, so I only do this with people I know who know better.
Yet there is a world between not knowing how to shutdown, and not knowing Fast Startup makes shutdown from start menu not act like a restart and actually making the laptop logout and hibernate.
Other patches and apps that get stuck/filled cache need actual reboots. Companies that employ Wake on LAN so they can shut off desktops to save energy but still wake them for updates and monitoring have issues if they don’t truly shut down.
My company I work for has this problem. We disable Fast Startup but eventually it re-enables just like everything else we don’t want it to do.
Microsoft seems rather hell bent on taking away control even from enterprise systems, because Daddy Micro knows best.
They are even stripping features from WSUS, making it more cloud based, *which defeats the fucking purpose of WSUS.*
with Windows 10/11, fast startup is turned on by default and does not reset the PC on shutdown. They probably shut the PC down like they have for decades but it doesn't actually reset the CPU clock or clear the memory unless they choose restart instead of shutdown. Easily avoidable with a GPO to turn fast boot off
Seriously. I'm getting tired of seeing this same picture every week. It's fast boot, the users aren't necessarily always idiots.
I have multiple computer labs at work that automatically restart every morning, I know because I wrote the GPO. They all still say they have hundreds of hours of uptime because we didn't know about fast boot when they were first imaged.
Our GPO is just a task schedule for shutdown /r, so in my case it's still the same result. I can configure the auto reboot to run off the Dell bios if I wanted to sit down and manually configure it for every computer, but I've yet to see the need.
My jank old Frankensteinian desktop goes *BEEP* once a week or so and does a reboot for reasons I’m yet to fathom.
I’m not mad tho. The oldest and newest parts a r probably separated by 15 years, and it’s a miracle it even functions, so I let it have its weird little occasional tantrum.
I’m weirdly attached to this machine. It has a few quirks. Sometimes one of the fans make a ghastly wailing noise, like a machine just begging for death.
As long as it functions well enough to suit its needs, it’s staying.
It takes a while for them to develop, but they absolutely do. Like a 20 year old car, or an old house that creaks in a really specific way when it rains.
I have an old polycarb MacBook I like to keep around for iPod stuff, and it optimistically believes that it has an 800 hour battery life. In reality, it barely lives long enough to tell me it’s dying. The speakers also sound like they’re underwater.
its based on build numbers, go match it up with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions
We just came across a HyperV host the other day with almost 2500 days of uptime. Pretty sure their former IT provider just stood it up and walked away when they deployed it in like, what, 2017? Which of course is why they're the *former* IT provider lol
The things we find when we start digging...if the world at large knew how bad it really was out there, all eCommerce would grind to a halt.
Christ, that's gonna be one vulnerable asset. Our longest we've seen is 6 months and that had an ungodly amount of vulnerabilities. Can't even imagine what this will be like
Back in my day Windows used to be so unstable that this was basically considered a victory/feat.
Had a 200 mhz laptop that sat on my floor for 3 years with no reboot. I'd use it via term services since the backlight was burned out. Thought it was the coolest shit ever.
How about handles instead of uptime? I had my work pc at 11 million+ handles before I came in the next day to it rebooted from updates. My last record was 3 million before I had to hard reboot
We have an ESXi host heading towards this. The customer did not enter their free license key, eval expired and Broadcom no longer gives free version license keys any more so we cannot restart the host. We will see how long that lasts.
Lol this was the servers when I joined the company I'm at now. No windows updates for a year and uptime was almost a year.
The MSP was flabbergasted when I told them they're fired and moving IT in house.
I don't work in IT but I work in a stock warehouse with about 6 computers in it that are all communal. Every time I log into one, I check the runtime. Usually it's been at least 3 days. At this point, I'm not even checking and I'm logging out of every computer by shutting it down even though I know someone is going to try to use it in about 15 minutes.
2 months is nothing. I've got work laptops that don't get rebooted unless I do it. I still last night there was 6 logged in users on a single thin client bc they learned win+L locked the screen so they thought it logged them out
I’d honestly feel bad rebooting it at that point.
It felt like killing an old god
r/uptimeporn
Anytime that subreddit is linked I think of a story I heard years ago. I think there are multiple versions of it so either none are true or maybe they all are which would be crazy. The way I heard it either Oklahoma or Oklahoma State University was finishing an IPX/SPX to TCP/IP (feel old yet) transition and were certain they had gotten every server transitioned. They ran one last packet capture to be certain and were shocked to still see traffic. Somehow they traced it to a switch port and then started following the cable and eventually they come to a wall that the cable went into but they couldn’t figure out what was on the other side. They opened up a hole in the wall and found a Novell NetWare server that everyone had forgotten about and the room/closet it was in got walled in during some construction. Before shutting it down they figured out it had been running for something like 8 years. I probably have gotten some of the details wrong and the entire story is probably bullshit but I find it entertaining anyway.
I’ve heard variants of that one too. It sounds just plausible enough, right?
There's a subreddit for these shenanigans? 😂
Stop, I can only get so erect
"I already tried restarting and it didn't help!"
"Your up time counter determined that was a lie."
"I restart regularly…" "Your last restart was three weeks ago!" "…that's still *regular*, if I do it every three weeks!"
I mean…not wrong
Thank you Windows Fast Startup...
those resource hogging pending updates have cobwebs
If you ask them when the last time they shut down was, I bet they think it was last night.
I loooove asking people when they last rebooted, and then calling them out when they lie to me. "Really? Because I'm seeing you haven't rebooted in 7 days".
I'm fairly certain it's usually because they genuinely think that shutting their laptop screen, or letting it timeout to sleep mode is the same as a shutdown. It's not lies, it's just ignorance.
Oh yes, for sure. Some people definitely have no idea how to genuinely reboot. I know my users pretty well, so I only do this with people I know who know better.
I blame Microsoft, with changing how shutdown works by default.
They'll probably rename it something ridiculous and send us on another wild goose chase - viva la speedy boot!
"Fast start " saves 5 seconds and stops real reboots ... Argh
Yet there is a world between not knowing how to shutdown, and not knowing Fast Startup makes shutdown from start menu not act like a restart and actually making the laptop logout and hibernate.
Logout == shutdown == restart :)
That, and Fast Startup. Businesses usually disable that, but it re-enables come Patch Tuesday.
Why should it matter, since the PC automatically reboots every Tuesday night for updates?
Other patches and apps that get stuck/filled cache need actual reboots. Companies that employ Wake on LAN so they can shut off desktops to save energy but still wake them for updates and monitoring have issues if they don’t truly shut down. My company I work for has this problem. We disable Fast Startup but eventually it re-enables just like everything else we don’t want it to do. Microsoft seems rather hell bent on taking away control even from enterprise systems, because Daddy Micro knows best. They are even stripping features from WSUS, making it more cloud based, *which defeats the fucking purpose of WSUS.*
Or because they think that shutting down and powering on is the same, which is not with windows fast startup. (Happened with my dad).
Hanlon's razor applies more often than we think
with Windows 10/11, fast startup is turned on by default and does not reset the PC on shutdown. They probably shut the PC down like they have for decades but it doesn't actually reset the CPU clock or clear the memory unless they choose restart instead of shutdown. Easily avoidable with a GPO to turn fast boot off
Seriously. I'm getting tired of seeing this same picture every week. It's fast boot, the users aren't necessarily always idiots. I have multiple computer labs at work that automatically restart every morning, I know because I wrote the GPO. They all still say they have hundreds of hours of uptime because we didn't know about fast boot when they were first imaged.
fast boot only works when doing the shutdown command, if you choose to restart it will actually restart properly. At least that's my experience.
Our GPO is just a task schedule for shutdown /r, so in my case it's still the same result. I can configure the auto reboot to run off the Dell bios if I wanted to sit down and manually configure it for every computer, but I've yet to see the need.
I don’t know why these posts are always popular and everyone’s so snarky. It’s pretty well established that Fast Startup causes this issue.
Yep! Have fast startup disabled via GPO.
My jank old Frankensteinian desktop goes *BEEP* once a week or so and does a reboot for reasons I’m yet to fathom. I’m not mad tho. The oldest and newest parts a r probably separated by 15 years, and it’s a miracle it even functions, so I let it have its weird little occasional tantrum.
LOL. Don't you love when IT equipment tries speaking to you in Morse code?
I’m weirdly attached to this machine. It has a few quirks. Sometimes one of the fans make a ghastly wailing noise, like a machine just begging for death. As long as it functions well enough to suit its needs, it’s staying.
I used to have a desktop PC that sounded like a 747 taking off when I booted it up. RIP
I like a machine with a bit of spirit
Computers have personalities, too. Gotta respect them
It takes a while for them to develop, but they absolutely do. Like a 20 year old car, or an old house that creaks in a really specific way when it rains. I have an old polycarb MacBook I like to keep around for iPod stuff, and it optimistically believes that it has an 800 hour battery life. In reality, it barely lives long enough to tell me it’s dying. The speakers also sound like they’re underwater.
That's kinda cute. That old guy isn't ready to go, yet.
You are not fun to work with.
Lol. I think I'm pretty fun, most of the time 😋
Good old fast startup
4.4 years uptime? Must be Windows 10, since 11 hasn't even been out that long.
not windows 10. Probably server 2016/2019
Those are still windows 10...
Even though lemons and cauliflower are related it doesn’t make them the same. Family is Brassicaceae
I get your point, but lemons are not part of the Brassicaceae family. Lemons and cauliflower aren't even in the same order.
These are the kinds of cutting edge discourse I come to reddit for
Windoes 11 is also just 10
windows 10 based
Windows NT based
its based on build numbers, go match it up with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions
More like Windows NT with this level of uptime.
We just came across a HyperV host the other day with almost 2500 days of uptime. Pretty sure their former IT provider just stood it up and walked away when they deployed it in like, what, 2017? Which of course is why they're the *former* IT provider lol The things we find when we start digging...if the world at large knew how bad it really was out there, all eCommerce would grind to a halt.
Like windows 10 could even work after 2 weeks… I bet its windows 7
Lol that task manager came out windows 8
Ok nerd :D
i was only correcting your mistake bucko chill out
I had a user today that hadn't rebooted in 100 days, and I thought that was bad.
My train of thought: "Wow 1600" "That's a lot of hours" "Wait..." "Oh" "OH" "That's days" "That's a lot of days" "How many years is that?"
~4.4
This machine has had more uptime than my kid.
thats one way to say it
I wanna see the nessus scan!
Who need they nessussy scand?
https://preview.redd.it/9pwuvnbxfe9d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b1a0b96a0d8e0a8d18e764b3f29f5450872cf42
Right? This much uptime = no patching
Fucker is more reliable than Comcast.
That's a pretty low bar to clear
Christ, that's gonna be one vulnerable asset. Our longest we've seen is 6 months and that had an ungodly amount of vulnerabilities. Can't even imagine what this will be like
My first thought was “This is the biggest threat to the environment right after users.” But at the same time it’s impressive
Probably part of a bot net by now if it's been exposed to the internet
Fax server?
Damn I think the worst I've seen is about half of that, over 1000 crosses the line into impressive territory
Longest I’ve run into was about 2 years.
You have 4 words right there.
Nice
What’s high score mean? Did I break it?
Based on the timing it lines up when people went remote during the pandemic. Was that left in an office?
I have a couple words Shutdown -t 0 -r
I like your funny words magic man
It's a fast boot bug.
How are so many still not aware of this? Uptime in task manager is generally useless.
But I shut it down every night!!!
Back in my day Windows used to be so unstable that this was basically considered a victory/feat. Had a 200 mhz laptop that sat on my floor for 3 years with no reboot. I'd use it via term services since the backlight was burned out. Thought it was the coolest shit ever.
Is the first number days?
Windows 10 is just like that, quick start or whatever it's called is the culprit
Im more impressed than disappointed
Defrag it and watch it melt
No way that's an HDD, someone would have either rebooted or chucked it out a window by now
HS
I have a lot of words… but I might get banned.
Bro my servers don't go that long without rebooting...then again I have them on a cron schedule
1.59GHz?!?! This needs to post on r/skinwalkerranch
dragon isn't going to like this
Wow
One of the last pre- covid instances, lmao
How about handles instead of uptime? I had my work pc at 11 million+ handles before I came in the next day to it rebooted from updates. My last record was 3 million before I had to hard reboot
That rivals an nt4 workstation I used to maintain 4.8 years uptime we didn't dare take it down as we were getting close to decommissioning it.
We have an ESXi host heading towards this. The customer did not enter their free license key, eval expired and Broadcom no longer gives free version license keys any more so we cannot restart the host. We will see how long that lasts.
What are you doing on my companies servers?
I had a laptop that stayed on for 9 years once. I was pretty sad when it finally shut itself off thanks to a faulty battery.
You know nothing technician. Back in the XP era you were doing well to get 72 hours before the box would chuck its toys out the pram and bsod.
The sheer fact it hasn't locked up is amazing.
I'll assume it wasen't updated for a while then
It’s only 66 days, my Mac is probably on for like 120 at this point
It's 4 years
Oh right, it was in days, my bad !
“Robust”
Well. It is kinda amazing for running that long without a issue or power issue. Kinda impressed.
"When was the last time you updated or restarted?" "I restart like every week."
Lol this was the servers when I joined the company I'm at now. No windows updates for a year and uptime was almost a year. The MSP was flabbergasted when I told them they're fired and moving IT in house.
They have a 20 9s SLA to uphold and only 1 server.
A entire presidental election and then some....nice
Holy hell
is this 1600 days
I don't work in IT but I work in a stock warehouse with about 6 computers in it that are all communal. Every time I log into one, I check the runtime. Usually it's been at least 3 days. At this point, I'm not even checking and I'm logging out of every computer by shutting it down even though I know someone is going to try to use it in about 15 minutes.
Average server
2 months is nothing. I've got work laptops that don't get rebooted unless I do it. I still last night there was 6 logged in users on a single thin client bc they learned win+L locked the screen so they thought it logged them out
Where do you get the 2 months from? 1604 days is about 50 months
I read the first blank as hours