Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Typical Mac users Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:49:15 -0700 Organization: A place where nothing fits quite right Lines: 34 Message-ID: <20260423094915.000001c7@gmail.com> References: <87qzo73oeq.fsf@rpi3> <10sa2pm$24a8s$3@dont-email.me> <8X6GR.974697$4wI6.165854@fx24.iad> <10sb1na$2eidm$1@dont-email.me> <10sb8o2$2gl78$5@dont-email.me> <10scp6j$2tb33$2@dont-email.me> <10sdcqm$33psb$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:49:20 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="60479f5de1390bdd2c648c5e40b290ba"; logging-data="3320099"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+qzScrXV9Y6w9jb83aVVLZvWZYgpmsowg=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:8F/6nk7l8rl8teQv66lQ9WNWabM= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:85859 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:144913 On Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:11:18 -0700 Alan wrote: > Well as the technical support contractor who maintained their Mac > network (AppleTalk on thinnet Ethernet: remember that; terminators!), > I was disassembling everything when I came upon the machine in the > bottom of a closet I knew was there from the existence of zones on > the AppleTalk network, but had never seen. > > In a closet, where it had been running continuously for something > like 10 years, there was a Mac II ci. The Forgotten Machine In The Broom Closet is always a fun one. Had a client once with the most utterly ad-hoc network I've ever encountered (we're talking "second building hanging off a single CAT5 strung across the eaves" bad,) and for the longest damn time we *could not* find the domain controller for their Windows machines. They had two different Server 2008 R2 instances running out of a fairly beefy *nix VM host, but neither were It, and when we connected into it via RDP it turned out to be running Server 2003 instead, which wasn't on any of the PCs we'd gotten our mgmt. tools set up on during the initial onboarding. Well, it was running reliably enough (and it was even odds whether any given workstation was even domain-joined in the first place,) and as you might infer we had a whole smelt-fry of bigger fish at that place, so we left it to itself for the time being. But one day during some on- site work I chanced across a machine that was just sitting perched atop a switch in their equipment rack, humming quietly away. Hooked up a spare monitor & keyboard, and there was our domain controller, running on...a Dell Pentium III consumer desktop. It was still there when I left that job six months later. For all I know, it still is.