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   David W. Jones (dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 10:46:12 JST David W. Jones

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   Oh, the first real job I had in Hawaii was with a consulting service that ran their financial accounting on a very old Prime minicomputer. When they went to wipe its array of disks (spread across a wall of cabinets), they set off a wave of disk failure messages. I guess the hardware had been on the edge of failure for years, as disk controllers silently corrected errors until forced to wipe disk sectors they'd left alone for years.

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     Jim (sullybiker@sully.site)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 10:46:12 JST Jim

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     @dancingtreefrog We had someone set up a marketing material workflow using an old mac as some kind of batch server. They left and nobody knew about it for years. Until one day it stopped working.

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     David W. Jones (dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 10:46:14 JST David W. Jones

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     @sullybiker Interesting. About 20 years ago, a large private school system I used to work for finally got around to demolishing the interior of an old building. In the process, they found a Novell Netware server, still running, that much earlier remodeling had walled up inside a storage closet.
     Sounds to me like old Netware rules the reliability roost!

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     Jim (sullybiker@sully.site)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 10:46:14 JST Jim

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     @dancingtreefrog That poor server! At a place I worked they had some print server that had been up for around a decade that was down to the final working disk, and they were scared to ever reboot it.

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     Jim (sullybiker@sully.site)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 10:46:15 JST Jim

     Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good • The Register
     https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/switching_from_linux_to_bsd/