[offtopic] Government and technology

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi!

On Friday 06 February 2009 23:42:54 Ira Abramov wrote:
> Oh, and just so this remains slightly on-topic, I am enjoying the nice,
> round number of uptime days on my server, so I'll share it with you:
>  23:40:21 up 512 days,  9:49,  2 users,  load average: 0.89, 0.83, 1.11
> (it's the curse and the blessing of working with Debian "stable" :-)
>

That's a nice uptime. However, weren't there any newer kernels released since 
with important security updates? Won't that potentially jeopardise your 
system?

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish (who is using Mandriva Cooker on his home machine, which 
recommends rebooting for every upgrade of the kernel, glibc or dbus, etc. and 
who is shutting down the computer at night anyway, to save on electricity.)

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