I remember reading about it before I was married (I stopped getting the paper then), so it would have been 8 to 10 years ago. That would also put the server in the time period of the Novell 3.1 server - one of the most stable beasts to ever be created by man.
I don't think the on-line archives go back that far for the N&O. Does the Admin for the med school go back that far? As I recall there were several departments to the med school, each with an admin in charge - sort of like a many headed beast - a many, mini-headed beast... Jon On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 15:14, Jeff Bollinger wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > That's very interesting. I can't find the article when I search at > newsandobserver.com and I spoke with the administrator of the Medical > School who also said it was not true, and who also said he heard it > happened on MAIN campus! Wow, lots of red herrings here. I think it's > am amusing story, but it's really nothing more than a Novell commercial. > > http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2001-05/sunflash.20010521.3.html > > Jeff > > Jon Carnes wrote: > | On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 11:14, Thomas C. Meggs wrote: > | > |>What comes to mind immediately when I hear Novell is that it is very > |>often used in medical environments, and the Med School could very well > |>have had a Novell server hiding away somewhere doing something inane. > |> > |>As far as Novell taking credit for finding the server, it could have > |>even just been a Novell contractor on site helping out with a support > |>issue, they didn't neccesarily have to utilize any black magic. :) > |> > |>Regards, > |>Tom > | > | > | I read this story in the paper when it happened. The computer was at > | the Medical school. They had some quotes from the Administrator of the > | Med School. Apparently their network and machines had been installed by > | multiple contractors over a lot of time and no one was fully up-to-date > | on everything on their net. > | > | If this is a hoax then it was an elaborate one that fooled the News and > | Observer. > | > | I did some work for the Med school back when I was a contractor. Some > | of the buildings were in horrible shape. They looked like a giant > | kindergartner had taken a couple of Victorian houses and crammed them > | together. There were corridors that didn't go anywhere, hallways with > | steps that mysteriously carried you up four feet then right back down > | again to *almost* the same level - where the hallway continued - Windows > | that opened up onto solid brick walls... > | > | I could easily believe that a server was drywalled over and forgotten > | about. > | > | Jon Carnes > | > | _______________________________________________ > | TriLUG mailing list > | http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > | TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > | http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > > - -- > Jeff Bollinger > University of North Carolina > IT Security Analyst > 105 Abernethy Hall > mailto: jeff_bollinger@unc dot edu > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQE9neiQvoVlxVBmgsURAvpdAKDa9HSf6dhcsMra/prH9p1cpOqjIwCfRTah > dFfGZt375zrW0KI84vWj01E= > =MJ9W > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
