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eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Hed posted:

Datacenter is a bunch of Raspberry Pis:

running Plan 9

all workstations are also Raspberry Pi running Plan 9

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eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

The Management posted:

do I need a directory or something? I don�t know these things.

yeah you need a white pages and a yellow pages, which is why you need an old Sun in a corner running an NIS server on SunOS 4.0.3

nobody can remember the password so the admin just reboots to single user to make changes

also its NVRAM battery died decades ago so the admin has to enter an incantation at any cold boot to set the Ethernet address; the Post-It with the incantation is faded and impossible to read (it�s in the original CTO�s chicken-scratch) but the admin knows it by heart

incidentally all systems�including portables connecting via the PPTP VPN�have hard-coded IP addresses that must reverse-ARP to a name in that Sun�s /etc/ethers to use any network server ces

# ¿ Jul 30, 2020 09:23

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

first implementation of the service was by the CTO using Common Lisp

you�re not allowed to rewrite it and he will fight you on any attempt to use other tools

# ¿ Aug 3, 2020 00:54

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