Time- ~Late 1990s. Place- Small financial institution in the NE. Having just finished two weeks on the job, one Friday evening before heading out I decided to

Time- ~Late 1990s. Place- Small financial institution in the NE. Having just finished two weeks on the job, one Friday evening before heading out I decided to reboot my Sun Sparcstation. I of course did not have root but there was L1-A which put you into the BIOS. Then: sync;sync;reboot Workstation starts rebooting. 30 seconds later the sysadmin is standing over my shoulder. SA - "What did you do?" me - "I rebooted it" SA - Incredulous. Like I just set my hair on fire. "Why?" me - "Its been two week, you know defrag memory, free up the page tables" (some vague psuedo cs bs) SA - "This is a Solaris X.Y/SunOS Q.Y machine. It had an uptime of 180+days. I have machines here with an uptime of 2+ years." me - "Really?" SA - "These machines do not need a reboot. Ever. Please do not do this again." I arrived Monday to find that L1-A had been disabled on my machine. How far we have (pro|re)gressed in 20 years! ;) (edits - typo)