[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Paul Sture]

In article <iquh7a$g3u$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>,
 Keith Parris <keithparris_deletethis at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 5/17/2011 12:35 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> > For those who understand German, there was a bit of (unintentional?)
> > humour in C't magazine a few years back:
> >
> >     [...] ein gut konfigurierter Windows-Rechner, an dem niemand
> >     herumspielt, läuft auch über mehrere Tage stabil.
> >                                                     (c't 14/2004, S. 147)
> >
> 
> And for those who don't understand German, Babelfish says:
> 
> "a well configured Windows computer, at which nobody plays, runs also 
> over several days stably."

My translation:

"A well configured Windows computer that nobody mucks around with will 
run stably for several days."  Could be "multiple days" in there.

A better sense of the verb "herumspielen" is given here:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/67lhn6m

I picked the polite version above :-)

-- 
Paul Sture