System uptime, the amount of time since a computer’s last boot up, can be an important piece of information for troubleshooting and maintenance purposes. Here are two ways to find your Mac uptime in OS X.
Check a Website’s Status with ‘Down for Everyone or Just Me’
A TekRevue reader recently asked us about an odd situation: a website wouldn’t load on his work computer but worked fine at home. There was no error while at work, just a message from his browser that the site couldn’t be found. At first he thought the website in question was simply unreliable and would go down often during the day. After some investigation, however, he learned that an issue with caching and DNS at his office’s Internet provider was…
NetWare File Server Runs Continuously For More Than 16 Years
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 ensured against any power failures that might have brought the computer…