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On Friday 25 October 2002 12:19, Richi Plana wrote:
> Kevin Anderson wrote:
> >We skipped a few patches on one of our servers that had been up for a
> > couple of years, until it was finally time to replace the hardware.
>
> _We_? Are you saying you were with the group that discovered the server
> behind the wall? Or is that paragraph unrelated to the previous one?
> Just curious.
haha... zing!
this is one of the classic "urban myths" of the computing industry. i've heard
so many permutations of this story it isn't even funny.
unix (name the flavour), netware, this university, that university, those
labs, these labs, this year, that year, so many years, behind drywall, behind
panelling, could hear it beeping, could ping the system, could see the wire,
found it during remodelling, searched to find it to upgrade hardware,
accidently put a hole in the wall and there it was...
it's a nice parable relating the solidity of a True operatin system, but most
likely not real.
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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
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