…of course, it is no big deal that the mirrored drives got fried as a lot of the code and such was specific to RHEL5 era servers and no longer works on modern Linux. I also,no longer have any hardware even capable of running RHEL5.
No matter. I held my nose and ported everything to modern, systemd-based systems. RHEL7 server is humming right along.
Got home from work at 11:00pm. A crucial, outward facing server blew up. I've never seen a power supply take out a motherboard and all of the drives in a raid array.
Had to reconfigure services and such from scratch.
Still working on it remotely.
@matigo Seems like both ZIP and floppy-based tape drives existed to do just that.
// @streakmachine
@matigo In Linux, even today, I still have a root terminal open and enter sync; sync before ejecting. Got burned several times back when Linux wasn't so graceful.
// @streakmachine
@larand Every simplification they made to Word since Word 98 made it more incomprehensible to me.
// @tewha
A customer I talked to a couple of months ago was complaining about his hip hurting and that he had an appointment to have it looked at.
Our bookkeeper just came in to tell me that it was bone cancer and that he also had it in his lungs. Died in just six weeks.
Dear Lord.
@JeremyCherfas I imagine finding that in brick/mortar will be difficult. Particularly in these parts.
When I originally read it, it was in the old Anglo-Saxon from an older Norton Anthology. I was eight years old and it was quite an uphill climb.
Amazing that the Korean war is just now being ended - 65 years after the fact.
A little good news in the world is nice.