[rescue] Sad Solaris geek

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Sat Dec 20 18:09:01 CST 2003


On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:26:29PM -0800, Nadine Miller wrote:
> So I am at $job now for three days.
> 
> They have no clue about their two NetApp 7xx series boxes,
> so they are replacing the one that's still powered on with
> a Snap Appliance 4500 (from FC-AL to serial ATA--what is
> the world coming to?).
> 
> They have all these FC-AL trays loaded with disks from the
> Mirapoint Mail Appliances they are replacing over the next
> few months.  Then there's one D1000, one A1000 (both powered
> off), and in the dev lab--also to be replaced--a couple of
> E250s, U2s, and several U60s.  All because the consultants
> I am working for (two layers of contracting) are Linux
> fanboys.

*sigh*  what a friggin' waste.

> The replacement servers are HP Proliant 380s with SMP Xeon.

*hurl*


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