Registered: Jun 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Posts: 16

Uptime King?

I like the Tivo King idea so much that i made a similar page/parody. The Tivo Uptime Queen.

I'm the current ruling queen with a mere 1 day 1hour 09 minutes and 49 seconds.

Submit your uptimes to this forum, and the winner should submit a photo to the website: http://www.tivonews.com/features/uptimeking.shtml

Joseph Elwell.

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Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Twin Cities
Posts: 1241

Damn, if the guy who hosts my server hadn't lost power for more than four hours (I have about 1 hour of UPS time), the machine that the Season Pass Popularity Profiler had been up for 155 days. If there are any geeks out there who care about it, I have the uptime displayed when an extra parameter is passed to the related forums . Look on the bottom of the page.

This thing's running on a $500 HP Pavillion desktop with Redhat Linux, and I barely ever touch it.

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Registered: May 2000
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A since-retired Gateway 486 I had exceeded 300 days of uptime on slackware Linux a few years ago, a feat more momentous for my power company than the PC - power outages and hardware installations were the only reasons I ever had to reboot it. But I never put the cover on it, and a month or two before it hit a year I failed to adequately restrain a just-bathed dog who of course decided to shake herself off right next to the open case. It locked up, and although it rebooted ok it was never quite the same after that.

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Registered: Dec 2000
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Well, back to TiVo: There is a theoretical maximum uptime bounded by software upgrades. Some don't last more than a week

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Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Posts: 8

i reboot my TiVo every week to make sure I don't suffer from the memory leak.
Oh, wait... that's UltimateTV.
Nevermind.

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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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quote:

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Originally posted by walters:
Well, back to TiVo: There is a theoretical maximum uptime bounded by software upgrades. Some don't last more than a week

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Registered: Sep 2001
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I had 37 days on my TiVo until it got rebooted by the 2.5.1 update.

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Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Carson City, Nevada
Posts: 3744

quote:

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Originally posted by jelwell:
I think it's bounded only by when the first TiVo hit the market. If you've still got 1.3 software and you never connected it to a phone line...

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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Posts: 147

My TiVo was up for 147 days until I got the 2.5.1 update.
It's been up now since Friday so ~5 days now.
I have mine on a USP that will keep the TiVo operating for 3.5 hours if(when) the power fails.

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Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 1290

I had 158 days until I bumped the plug last week while plugging something else into the power strip.

Still no 2.5 (I have not signed up).

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Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Seattle, WA USA
Posts: 13

&gt;&gt;And in fact a lot of the people here, including myself, bought units that came with 1.2.1, which was the shipping version on all 14 hour units

My first Tivo (model 110 - 14hr) came loaded with 1.1. It didn't support cable + satellite. You could only use one or the other. Ahhh, the memories...

FWIW, I still have that unit, but the hard drives died last year so it's running a pair of WD30s. (note: UPS/w phone filter since day 1)

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