IT BS thread

Small college around here was still using Netware as of a few years ago. Hopefully they moved beyond it at this point.

 

I'm looking for something I can use now with windows and move to a different OS later. If I can move my Windows raid/storage spaces drives to it later that'd be great mmk. I like rock solid.

 

In a dark dusty corner of my home office...

 

You're missing Groupwise

Right up there with Lotus Notes. One of IBM's largest facilities is (was, they have sold off a lot of the buildings now) here, they made the AS400 here back in the day along with a few other things and software development.



More than a mile of Big Blue. They are a shadow of what they once were and over the years as they laid people off I interviewed quite a few of them. Years ago I said to one applicant that I guess he had no Exchange experience because of Notes. He told me top management wasn't aware of it but they had several Exchange servers on campus and a lot of employees used Outlook instead of Notes LOL.

 

That reminded me of some books I have on the shelf...lol

 

I moved out of the office a couple of months ago to WFH full time (hey I was ahead of the curve) and that collection never made it here. Along with a whole bunch of others. Didn't think there is a need for Citrix Winview or Winframe anymore either.

The 2 that hurt the most were Crickets DNS and BIND



And Priscilla Oppenheimer Cisco Networks Top-Down Network Design.

 

That was my first cert. I like to fuck with the admins now by asking “where’s the WINS server?”

 

Hey, those AS400's were tough as hell. Last gig was a growth by acquisition company. One of my tasks was to evaluate the tech the new acquisitions had. There was one that had laid off all their tech people a couple of years before we got them. When I showed up asking to see the server room nobody knew where it was. After MUCH searching I found they had drywalled the server room door closed. When we tore that down there was an AS400 sitting in there running the business, with zero support for years.

 

They still are! Do work on them all the time...I started out on S/36 back in the 80s. Doing a iSeries V7R4 upgrade in the coming weeks.

It's a venerable platform to be certain

 

as of about 2 to 3 years ago, TCS (tata consulting services) was still using notes.....

 

As of 5 or so years ago so was Toilet & Douche

 

I spent a lot of time at that gig helping move the acquired businesses off of what ever they were running and onto our SAP system running on AIX. There were a number of AS400's that were shutdown. I don't remember anyone having anything bad to say about them.

 

One good thing coming out of this COVID response is that I have time to complete all my CPE courses for my certs. Thank God for that - I was afraid I was going to have to do them on my own time!

 

After 5 weeks of taking daily online courses because of covid.

 

I don't know who did it, the org I work for or Microsoft, but someone kneecapped sharepoint.

I feel like I'm better off building a folder of flat files and sharing over one drive or RFC 2549.

 

I think it's your org. We're on O365 and our hosted SharePoint structures are plugging along normally, even all the fancy workflow-coded ones.

 

Probably. Its running the same way it has the whole time I've been here - but it just sucks. Navigation is slow and it seems to be missing a ton of features that I remember having back when I first started using sharepoint. Syncing between Teams and Sharepoint seems to be strange too - folders that were renamed get synced back in with the old name randomly.

Not confidence inspiring when you're trying to setup a critical documentation repository.

 

sharepoint just sucks in general. Such a pile of shit.