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NetWare 3.12 Server Taken Down After 16 Years of Continuous Duty
An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica's Peter Bright reports on a Netware 3.12 server that has been decommissioned after over 16 years of continuous operation. The plug was pulled when noise from the server's hard drives become intolerable. From the article: 'It's September 23, 1996. It's a Monday. The Macarena is pumping out of the office radio, mid-way through its 14 week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, doing little to improve the usual Monday gloom...Sixteen and a half years later, INTEL's hard disks—a pair of full height 5.25 inch 800 MB Quantum SCSI devices—are making some disconcerting noises from their bearings, and you're tired of the complaints. It's time to turn off the old warhorse.'"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/
It's slower but more than fast enough, supports printers too although you'll really miss those Novell print queues. And Lantastic has evolved too, you are no longer limited to Arcnet, it supports the *new* 10baseT half duplex cards! Patches are available for the DOS stack to accommodate just about any combination of hardware IRQ and base IO PORT. Just be sure to load the network TSRs BEFORE you run Borland Sidekick.
Whoa! I was having 1984 flashbacks for a moment.
<blink>down the rabbit hole</blink>
Are you saying that every channel on the TV should show the same program?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Just to piss of pompous, holier-than-thou assholes like yourself. Mission accomplished!
On the other side of an office door, I heard the worst noise I've ever heard from spinning drives and in my panic, didn't even see the "do not disturb" sign. Turns out it wasn't spinning drives I was hearing. The lactating woman on the other side of the door milking herself with a noisy pump nearly threw the infernal machine at me. Some things are not meant to be seen.
"He's using a quantum encryption scheme! That'll take hours to break!"
Only on slashdot you can laugh about silly comments, learn from really insightful ones AND learn about how HOSTS file can save your life and that APK posting as AC was impersonated by another Anonymous Coward!
Tomorrow is another day...
You know those little squiggly red lines under words you type? I think they're trying to tell you something.
No, no, that's the name of the OS.