[plug] [OT] Friday evening horror stories

Senectus . senectus at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 22:43:08 WST 2005


On 7/1/05, Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 21:09 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> > Anyone here able to beat these?
> >
> > ====================================
> >
> > Another fine example of good IT planning: A vmware Linux server running
> > on a Windows NT server, running off an x86 addon card inside an AS/400
> > running a production server for thousands fo terminal application users.
> 
> I can just imagine the sinking feeling when you power off the AS/400 to
> retire it and the phone starts ringing off the hook...
> 
> Nothing like thinking "so, where exactly *is* ${HOSTNAME} anyway..."
> 

Not learning past lessons and saying "yes mother I'll fix your win98 PC"


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