It's been a long, long time since I've posted here..sighed and went in. Rebuilt inittab, nothing else wrong, customer much relieved, but running on an ancient, very dusty Gateway.. amazing the poor thing is still running. I warned them that they will lose it sooner rather than later. They've already
I was reminded of this yesterday because I had to go fix an old 5.0.4 system that had lost its inittab. I tend to turn down most SCO stuff nowadays (especially anything pre 5.0.6), but this was an old customer from the 90's or maybe even earlier so I
Almost all of my old SCO customers have switched to Linux or Windows. I still keep the thousands of old SCO troubleshooting and help articles up at http://aplawrence.com, but the traffic has declined for rather obvious reasons :-)
Every time I do a job like yesterday's I think "This could be the last time I ever touch a SCO system".
Nowadays I mostly do mail servers and firewalls.. mostly Linux based, of course..
Just saying hi to anyone still here from the old days.
Tony Lawrence
It's been a long, long time since I've posted here..sighed and went in. Rebuilt inittab, nothing else wrong, customer much relieved, but running on an ancient, very dusty Gateway.. amazing the poor thing is still running. I warned them that they will lose it sooner rather than later. They've already
I was reminded of this yesterday because I had to go fix an old 5.0.4 system that had lost its inittab. I tend to turn down most SCO stuff nowadays (especially anything pre 5.0.6), but this was an old customer from the 90's or maybe even earlier so I
Almost all of my old SCO customers have switched to Linux or Windows. I still keep the thousands of old SCO troubleshooting and help articles up at http://aplawrence.com, but the traffic has declined for rather obvious reasons :-)
Every time I do a job like yesterday's I think "This could be the last time I ever touch a SCO system".
Nowadays I mostly do mail servers and firewalls.. mostly Linux based, of course..
Just saying hi to anyone still here from the old days.
Tony Lawrence
It's been a long, long time since I've posted here..sighed and went in. Rebuilt inittab, nothing else wrong, customer much relieved, but running on an ancient, very dusty Gateway.. amazing the poor thing is still running. I warned them that they will lose it sooner rather than later. They've already
I was reminded of this yesterday because I had to go fix an old 5.0.4 system that had lost its inittab. I tend to turn down most SCO stuff nowadays (especially anything pre 5.0.6), but this was an old customer from the 90's or maybe even earlier so I
Almost all of my old SCO customers have switched to Linux or Windows. I still keep the thousands of old SCO troubleshooting and help articles up at http://aplawrence.com, but the traffic has declined for rather obvious reasons :-)
Every time I do a job like yesterday's I think "This could be the last time I ever touch a SCO system".
Nowadays I mostly do mail servers and firewalls.. mostly Linux based, of course..
Just saying hi to anyone still here from the old days.
Tony Lawrence
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