[rescue] KVM and Sunfire 280r

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Fri Apr 25 10:22:33 CDT 2003


On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 12:16:23AM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> > In it was a 5.5 million $$$ Cray/SGI combination that happened to be
> > generating 75% of their revenue at the time.
> >
> > "They aren't even using it, and none of it is hooked up."
> 
> The proper response was: "I'll give you $3.50 for it!  You don't even
> have to pay shipping.  I'll pick it up."

I did that one time, but a nearby bean counter caught the tremble in my
voice I suppose, and got suspicious.  Came very close to getting a DEC
Alphaserver with a dozen drives and hardware RAID for $100.

> > All the wiring was, of course, under the floor.
> 
> With their bodies soon to follow, I hope.

Nah, the room would smell bad.  There are perfectly good landfills for
them to go into... :)


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