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| DATE | 2014-05-01 |
| FROM | Ron Guerin
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Nostalgia in the office
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On 05/01/2014 07:26 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> This week I have had the pleasure of repairing a bunch a appliances
> which convert film into digital beta (basic HD quality) at work. The
> reason why this was a nostalgic pleasure is the controllers for the
> system run Red Hat box set 7.4 circa 2002. Bot of the systems had dieing
> hard drives but I was able to dig up the install ISO's off
> of ftp.sscientificlinux.org .
> Ho yes this is one of the pre fedora 2.4 kernel version of Red Hat
> linux. I almost said out loud hello old friend lol. But seriously this
> thing was built at a time when most people out side of web and Pixar
> thought Linux was a toy and its nice to see one off these systems from
> then still considered to be business critical it means we did a great
> job as a comunity.
As far as tech goes, we succeeded. As far as passing on our values to
the kids behind us goes, we failed.
- Ron
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