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(DIR) Post #AdYuEvivmdqeB5LrWa by tallship@gleasonator.com
2024-01-06T07:25:03.790220Z
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For those who aren't aware, those old Sun boxes were built to run for years without having to shutdown. redundancy was at every level. Redundant, hot-plug power supplies, and of course, hot-swap HDDs.You could even swap out memory cards simply by opening the box, pressing a button to disable one of the memory banks, swap it out for one with good RAM, and then with a press of a button activate the replacement or upgraded RAM.Those machine's were beasts!Imagine you're a small company with about 100 or so employees, drivers, foundry workers, office staff of about 20 or 25 people, all of your accounting, invoicing, order/inventory control, and even the jobs you receive from Home Depot (where you get most of your kitchen installation orders) come into that one machine, which has plenty of spare parts to replace virtually anything that fails...@gabriel just asked this hypothetical, I presume in jest, because he wants to hear war stories or maybe how field engineers look at problems stemming from a customers irresponsible behaviors test our impatience, bringing out the #BOFH in all of us, lolz...#tallship #Sun #Solaris #tales_from_the_darksideāµ .RT: https://public.mitra.social/objects/018cdd87-3b19-d682-843e-9f83a3789de6