6,030 days, 5 hours, 21 minutes, 19 seconds. That’s how long a server monitored by Ars Technica forum user Axatax has been faithfully operating without interruption. The 16-year-old server, powered Novell’s NetWare operating system, finally shut down last week after its 5.25-inch SCSI hard drives started to fail. The NetWare File Server’s impressive uptime was due to the server’s use in a large financial company; a centralized UPS system insured against any power failures that might have brought the computer