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techrecoveryIt's snowing.
...And nothing, I mean nothing, where I live is plowed yet. Not even I-95. It's only been coming down for what.. 2, 3 hours now? I watched someone do a 360 right in front of me, pirouette across all 4 lanes, and end up in the left shoulder facing the wrong way. I had to do a bit of sideways driving myself to avoid him.
I had to drive all the way from Baltimore to Dulles and back earlier today. Gods, I hate going down there. Drivers are rude and downright insane sometimes, and it seems like there's a freakin' toll every on and off ramp. I'm not suprised. It's really close to Herndon, VA... and you know what's in Herndon. The pollution hangs in the air for miles around, you can taste it.
Scary. Almost as scary as the XENIX box I had to bring back to life today.
The biggest problem was WHY it died. Luser at some point sets a BIOS password, Luser forgets password. System has been up for (literally) years but finally crashes for whatever reason. Luser is told by TS to open it up and flip the CMOS jumper.
Luser somehow manages while doing this to to pop an 8-port serial card halfway out of the ISA slot. Probably with the power on. Poof!
Now it's my turn. I wedge the important parts into another box and beat the bastard son of M$ and SCO into semi-happiness. Take the remaining carcass for repair. The biggest problem appears to be the 8 port I/O card. Kernel sees it, ports don't actually I or O. It's cooked, Jim, and it's up to the luser to replace the expensive fscker.
I cracked up over the fact that XENIX won't boot if you have MORE than 32 MB RAM in the system.
The resulting error is:
So that's what you get when Microsoft takes a crack at a UNIX OS.
...And nothing, I mean nothing, where I live is plowed yet. Not even I-95. It's only been coming down for what.. 2, 3 hours now? I watched someone do a 360 right in front of me, pirouette across all 4 lanes, and end up in the left shoulder facing the wrong way. I had to do a bit of sideways driving myself to avoid him.
I had to drive all the way from Baltimore to Dulles and back earlier today. Gods, I hate going down there. Drivers are rude and downright insane sometimes, and it seems like there's a freakin' toll every on and off ramp. I'm not suprised. It's really close to Herndon, VA... and you know what's in Herndon. The pollution hangs in the air for miles around, you can taste it.
Scary. Almost as scary as the XENIX box I had to bring back to life today.
The biggest problem was WHY it died. Luser at some point sets a BIOS password, Luser forgets password. System has been up for (literally) years but finally crashes for whatever reason. Luser is told by TS to open it up and flip the CMOS jumper.
Luser somehow manages while doing this to to pop an 8-port serial card halfway out of the ISA slot. Probably with the power on. Poof!
Now it's my turn. I wedge the important parts into another box and beat the bastard son of M$ and SCO into semi-happiness. Take the remaining carcass for repair. The biggest problem appears to be the 8 port I/O card. Kernel sees it, ports don't actually I or O. It's cooked, Jim, and it's up to the luser to replace the expensive fscker.
I cracked up over the fact that XENIX won't boot if you have MORE than 32 MB RAM in the system.
The resulting error is:
Not enough physical memory to load kernel.So that's what you get when Microsoft takes a crack at a UNIX OS.
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Date: 2004-01-24 06:13 am (UTC)And I'm not sure what you're talking about with the pollution... Either I'm used to it, or you live in a forest... :-P
_MaH
What's in herdon.
Date: 2004-01-24 07:56 am (UTC)AOL's center of operations is in Herndon
Re: What's in herdon.
Date: 2004-01-24 07:58 am (UTC)[silence]
Holy crap I just sealed my fate....
_MaH