What Are You Doing Right Now
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Good night from Transylvania.
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And good morning everyone!
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@scottalanmiller good morning!
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Re-installing FOG, (Because I deleted the bloody wrong VM!!!!!)
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Doing the monthly pre-workday reboot of an ancient Unix production server
And P2V'ing some stuff.
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@crustachio said:
Doing the monthly pre-workday reboot of an ancient Unix production server
And P2V'ing some stuff.
What kind of UNIX?
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@scottalanmiller DG/UX on a Data General AViiON. In theory it should never need to go down, but it is getting cranky in its old age.
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@crustachio said:
@scottalanmiller DG/UX on a Data General AViiON. In theory it should never need to go down, but it is getting cranky in its old age.
Wow, DataGeneral!!!
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Is that an M88K unit?
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32bit? It's 2001, has to be. That's nuts.
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2001 at the latest, I mean. Thats when DG disappeared.
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@scottalanmiller Indeed. It predates my career (high school career, even) -- and will probably outlast it too
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9GB disk array!! The future is now!!!!
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@scottalanmiller said:
2001 at the latest, I mean. Thats when DG disappeared.
I'm not 100% sure when this guy was put into service but I believe it was mid 90's.
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What is it running that it isn't replaced with a Raspberry Pi?
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And I'm not kidding, a Raspberry Pi 3 might easily crush that thing in CPU, memory and disks!
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Good morning everybody!
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@scottalanmiller said:
What is it running that it isn't replaced with a Raspberry Pi?
lol...
A host of various proprietary applications. It's not a question of performance, it's just that the code doesn't port easily. P2V is a no-go due to VMware not getting off their lazy asses and coding drivers for 20 year old niche UNIX platforms -- those jerks.
We have begun porting the applications to RHEL one at at a time, but it's not in production yet. There's a lot of kinks to work out for silly stuff like terminal emulation, printers, etc.