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Herbert, the server no one knew was a server.
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Kitten Torture. (Score:1)
He should've just shut the system down and let it come out, instead of trying to fry it. What a lamer. And he uses a Linux distro as a prying tool to 'save a kitten and an E10k'...
Kinda dumb story.
I hope someone got root to herbert (Score:1)
Someone who can be trusted to not screw up admining him. Not too many people mind you, but enough people that the maintance can be done.
Otherwise he will be gone in a month when everyone realises that the disks are full, and they don't have an clue as to how to fix the probelm.
hot swapable boards and you don't bother to try? (Score:1)
Come on, what true geek has ever seen a comtpuer with hot swapable motherboards and never wanted to try. Perfect exceuse to see if solaris really will route around such a problem in real time. Pull some boards, get the kitten, put the boards back.
Although turning the power off wouldn't have been a big deal considering this machine is so uncritical that you can consider turning it off for the night.
Agreed... (Score:1)
Yet another person to add to your list of 'never hires', unless you or your boss get off on burning kittens (adding torture to the terror undoubtably already experienced from being locked inside an e10k overnight to begin with).
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Kitten Torture. (Score:1)
Not mine, either. Although allergic to cat hair, I am a wholehearted cat lover. How he described the poor thing being scared to death made me grind my teeth.
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Nice Story, but... (Score:1)
does a lot of stuff which people rely on. And
now I'm leaving, and nobody's going to know
how to admin it...
That's the "but"... How do you get your employers
to realise they need to recruit a replacement who
groks UNIX, when your UNIX box was sneaked in through the back door?
Actually, the kitten was the only funny story. (Score:1)
The rest is just some "Linux rulez" dumb advocacy.
Flame if you want, it's just my opinion
ZDNet still sufering from old ilness. (Score:1)
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Talk about backward mentality ?
Whole family of Herberts here... (Score:1)
After a couple of days, I noticed a few old 486's gathering dust in the back room. One trip home to grab my RedHat CD and we had an IP Masquerading Internet gateway, e-mail server, a fast and reliable file server, networked printing, and a MySQL based database server which I am currently converting our Access stuff to (thinking about going with Oracle, but MySQL has been great so far). A little negotiating with our ISP and a check to the InterNIC, and the whole office had full Internet e-mail, complete with our company name as the domain name. All using my boss's $20/month dialup Internet connection (It's now $60 since I switched it to a static IP). This should be upgraded to cable-modem access this month, providing TCI sticks to their schedule. The quoted price for the cable modem will be about $2 less than we pay for the dialup accound plus the dedicated business phone line.
Not a bad range of network services for a couple hundred bucks a year. I haven't even bothered to figure out what the same services would have cost had NT based solutions been used.
Its a shame we all can't do such things (Score:1)
I've been trying to put linux on the network at work, but its too non MS for these ppl.
Its a shame that people are becomming some narrow minded. If 200 million isn't spent on advertising it, it obviously isn't any good...
That box may just survive. (Score:1)
From my own experience: I quit a job some 3.5 years ago. I had just installed a 386 with Linux as a gateway machine/proxy server between the company's LAN and a leased line to NLnet (now UUNET). That was the first and only Unix-like box there (except one Sun in the software development department) and it sat in a cupboard where nobody noticed it.
Over a year ago I saw their new sysadmin and he told me they were going to replace that setup by an NT server 'real soon now'.
However, I just did a quick scan and it sure looks like they still haven't changed a thing, except for the portmaster that is now connecting it to a higher-speed link. The network services on that box are the same as when I left.
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Kitten Torture. (Score:1)