Party like it's 999,999,999 from BBC News: Dot Life. [thanks, End the War on Freedom] All about the 9 September tick to UNIX S1B. Didn't realize the tenth anniversary of Linux is 15 September, though. Another good thorough article, including explanations of UNIX, computer timing, and Y2.038K:
Many people running Unix systems are gradually changing to 64-bit systems which can run for more than 290 billion years before they run out of numbers. As the Universe is thought to be only 15 billion or so years old then this should be enough.
