NetWare 3.12 Server Taken Down After 16 Years of Continuous Duty 187
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.'"
Was it discovered in the wall?? (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/ [theregister.co.uk]
Time to install... Lantastic! (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:Seriously? (Score:1, Funny)
Are you saying that every channel on the TV should show the same program?
Re:16 years and they did not run of space on it? (Score:5, Funny)
Just to piss of pompous, holier-than-thou assholes like yourself. Mission accomplished!
Re:Netware 3 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Seriously? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Continuos? (Score:4, Funny)
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.