Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Server retired after 18 years and ten months Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 16:02:47 +0400 (GMT+04:00) Organization: news.individual.net Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Bp5FBKqK3zbBsVcyw+utag+VwO+1SRUL7IekOkva1+VBdKg2vV Cancel-Lock: sha1:kQ9+TOwDpWGJffWpgTT16VUwcBI= X-Newsreader: PiaoHong.Usenet.Client.VIP:1.65 Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:10018 > Fun story for the electronics of course, but that's obviously a > terrible, terrible idea. Holds invoices? Real time account enquiries? > Sounds like business critical processes to me, and to have them on such > an supported environment is just foolish. > > They later say it took a lot of work to move the reports to a new > machine. The work would still have been worth it, but even if they'd > done something as simple as dd the drive to some virtual machine and > then run the same system on non-EOL hardware, they'd -still- be better > off. > > Clear example of penny wise, pound foolish. ... but they earn full geek cred of course. Gosh, imagine cqlling your company only to learn they are storing your info on a pentium 2. Yikes. It occurs to me the cost in electricity alone for the hardware would be far greater than newer machines.