I though Bob worked for AccounTemps???
From: Steve Ens [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 2:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Bean Counters Microsoft Bob? He knew ALL about computers. On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: " It was all done before I got here, by some guy named Bob who knew all about computers. " ROFL! -sc > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 3:22 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OT: Bean Counters > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Sherry > Abercrombie<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > Just had a question from an accounting type person of "Do we still > have > > backups of the Pic system?" Now the system in question was in place > in the > > late 90s ... > > I've got a virtual Windows 95 client networked to a virtual Windows > NT 4.0 server on a virtual LAN in VMware, all for access to a legacy > accounting system. Once in a blue moon some VIP will say they need > something from it, and I have to fire that up on my workstation. All > I need is some virtual dust to blow off it when that happens. ;-) > > Both server and client were P2V'ed, because the prospect of actually > trying to install either client or server from original media was > frankly terrifying. It was all done before I got here, by some guy > named Bob who knew all about computers. Erk. (Documentation? What's > that?) And I think they lost some of the install disks, too. > > One neat thing about that system (back when it was in production) > was that Bob had somehow found a way to get the C: partition to be the > entire 9 GB first hard disk (RAID? what's that?). NT 4.0 couldn't > read past 7.8 GB during bootstrap. Things were fine until we > installed SP4 (updates? what are those?), and the new version of > NTOSKRNL.EXE was placed past the 7.8 GB line on the disk. Black > screen of death on reboot. (It apparently didn't even have enough > marbles to generate the color blue.) Ah, that was fun, fixing that. > Digging around for a copy of Partition Magic that could boot off > floppy -- at 10 PM in the evening... > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
