FW: [wplug] Just need to vent...

[techmike]

Well I feel better now..  :)

We too have several NT4 boxes..  <chuckle>

-mike

-----Original Message-----
From: "Teodorski, Chris" <cteodorski at mahoningcountyoh.gov>
To: "General user list" <wplug at wplug.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:05:10 -0400
Subject: FW: [wplug] Just need to vent...

> Our production peoplesoft (financials and HR for the whole county) is
> running on an NT 4 (no longer supported) SQL 7 (no longer supported) on
> 6 year old Dell hardware with no service contract running PeopleSoft
> 7.something which is no longer supported by PeopleSoft.  We have no
> full
> time IT staff who understand the interworkings of PeopleSoft.
> 
>   
> It is a disaster waiting to happen.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wplug-bounces+cteodorski=mahoningcounty.org at wplug.org
> > [mailto:wplug-bounces+cteodorski=mahoningcounty.org at wplug.org]
> >  On Behalf Of smk
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:50 AM
> > To: General user list
> > Subject: Re: [wplug] Just need to vent...
> > 
> > 
> > I am currently running a tomcat server on a sparc 5.  I feel your 
> > pain.
> > 
> > Scott
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, techmike wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.  <sigh>
> > > 
> > > 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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