On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:12:15 -0400, Tom Galvin wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:47:13 -0400, Warp wrote:
>> 
>>> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>> http://www.bash.org/?741630
>>>   I have heard or rumors of really, really old mainframes or other
>>>   such
>>> servers which have an uptime of something like 30 years and nobody
>>> dares to turn them off because they might not boot up anymore, and
>>> there aren't any people who would still have the knowledge to fix
>>> them. I don't know if these rumors have any veracity, though.
>> 
>> There is a story that's been around about a NetWare server that was in
>> a wiring closet that got completely closed up - no more door.  They
>> didn't even realize it was there, just chugging along.  I think the
>> uptime was something like 8 years, which for a PC server isn't bad....
>> 
>> Jim
> 
> Never ruin a good story
> 
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=6505527
> 
> With the truth
> 
> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5243/is_200105/ai_n20451515/

Sounds to me like just a denial of a Solaris box..... ;-)

Jim

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