[wplug] Just need to vent...

[duncanhutty at comcast.net]

Yes, all the time. Of the 30ish hosts I have to keep going, there are 2 P3s (fileserver/PDC and database server) 2 early P4s (my desktop and one other) and the rest are K6-2 450/500s or worse with 64-128MB running win98 and they wonder why the antivirus scan takes so long. 
I am trying to create an SMTP/IMAP server with spamassassin on a box with a 6GB drive which doesn't support DMA.
Passwords are shared between all employees and not changed when one leaves...
blah, blah, blah.
Duncan

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> Sorry, Just need to vent.. 
> 
> Dont you just love it when your company won't buy any decent hardware so 
> you're forced to work with circa 1990 computers? 
> 
> This morning I was in at 7:30 to find our win98 box we have displaying 
> stats on a tv-monitor has BSODed again.. (more frequently lately). 
> 
> I have another box with the software already on it running 2k pro, so I 
> think I'll just swap the tv-out video card to the other box. 
> 
> But it couldn't be that simple, the other box is a oem HP box with pheonix 
> bios and no way to disable the on board video. Yet the board has an agp 
> slot. 
> 
> It's 9:10 now, and I just got everything back to the way it was and I'm 
> nuking and repaving the bsoding machine.. 
> 
> Really seems like my linux boxes are the least problematic lately.. 
> 
> Anyone else deal with this sort of thing at work, looking like a fool 
> because you cannot accomplish a certain task with your sub-par hardware? :) 
> 
> First person to send me an off-list email with a work horror story gets a 
> gmail invite.. :) 
> 
> Thank you for letting me vent.. 
> 
> -Mike 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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