[nflug] UNIX-HATERS Handbook

[Mark Musone]

I personally experienced something equivalent to this that is completely true. Back when I worked at UB, we were taking over a number of offices in Baldy hall that was previously used a storage for us. 

To preface this, there had been a sun server... one of the fairly large multi cpu machines, about 2 feet tall, about 1 foot wide and deep..that we never could find. it was actually used by a number of people, but we had no idea where it was. we had kinda assumed it was simply in somebody's office and/or labeled incorrectly. We had complete network access to it, but never remotel rebooted it for fear of it not coming back up and not being able to find it.

During the cleaning of the offices, there was one that was stacked _full_ of desks, chairs, books, and general junk..
we got halfway through cleaning the office and noticed a network cable on the floor..we followed the cable into the center of the mess, and low and behold found the server under the entire stack! it had been up for over 5 years!!

-Mark


On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 07:21:55AM -0700, Robert Meyer wrote:
> Well, the story I'm thinking of involved a VAX running BSD.  I think I saw a
> reference to a fellow by the name of John Sokol.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Bob
> 
> --- Bootz <eric at bootz.us> wrote:
> 
> > I heard the story also, from a Novell Netware Instructor that worked for
> > IKON before it was ITT ...isn't netware's base OS unix or very similar
> > to unix anyway :) ...so the story can be swayed.
> > 
> > 
> > Darin Perusich wrote:
> > > i've heard that story before but it was a netware server.
> > >
> > > me thinks it's urban legend :)
> > >
> > > Robert Meyer wrote:
> > >   
> > >> Yeah, I've heard it all before.  Somehow, with all of it's problems, *nix
> > just
> > >> keeps plugging along, hidden away in the dark recesses of data centers
> > where
> > >> nobody ever goes 'cuz they just keep running...
> > >>
> > >> Did I ever tell the story of the Unix server that needed to be shut down
> > and
> > >> retired but they couldn't find it 'cuz it had been walled in during
> > >> construction 3 years prior?
> > >>
> > >> Cheers!
> > >>
> > >> Bob
> > >>
> > >> --- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>     
> > >>> VERY GOOD !  It makes me happy to realize people were fighting the same
> > >>> issues 10 years ago that we fight today...
> > >>>
> > >>> However the book makes me think of a Quote from Churchill 
> > >>> (Substitute *nix for Democracy)
> > >>> Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world
> > of
> > >>> sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise.
> > Indeed,
> > >>> it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except
> > all
> > >>> those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Speech in the
> > House
> > >>> of Commons (11 November 1947)
> > >>>  
> > >>>
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