@kdfrawg The most painful was running a USENET feed off a NT4 Server box. It's as if the Compaq Proliant was screaming, "Killllll Meeeeee". Just like that scene in "The Fly"
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@kdfrawg I keep this around for a reason. Whenever someone has a dumb idea that sounds great in theory, I point at it and the discussion ends.
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@kdfrawg Ugly and dated UI but I miss the stability. First Winows I could run for an entire week without having to restart.
NT 4 server was a different matter.
We ran a ISP with it. Lost count of the times I had to go to the office in the middle of the night and cold-boot the stupid thing from the memory leaks.
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@hybotics It's doable if you fight with XDM long enough.
We had a "We're going to try thin clients across a network" edict many years ago that ended with..
"You got your wish. There it is. Now, can we throw this crap out and file the whole debacle away as a brainfart?"
"Yes", was the answer.
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@literary It's a shame there isn't a telecommuting option of some sort.
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@hybotics FreeBSD is probably the better supported, hardware-wise, of the two.
Takes too much futzing around to make it into a desktop though. At least, that's the way I feel about it. They have a Desktop-specific re-spin but I've not tried it.
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Dave Mustaine was never what you would call a gifted singer.
Age is not doing him any favors in this regard.
Hate to say that, but, there we are.
@kdfrawg There are certain headless server tasks I need a dirt simple and reliable *nix for. BSD has filled that role nicely.
For my personal stuff, I was in the "couldn;t care less about it anymore" camp.
I'm starting to reconsider my stance after recent events.
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@kdfrawg It doesn't pay to render it to a company that has already made up it's mind and is only asking for sake of appearances.
@kdfrawg I think the BSDs is about as close as you're going to get.
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