nixCraft π§What do you think we should bring back from the 90s IT departments? π€
Jason Tubnor π¦πΊ@nixCraft Servers under the desk, that is the real cloud.
codingWombat (he / him) β¨@codingWombat @nixCraft If only hardware was that reliable these days.
@codingWombat @nixCraft Youβd be surprised on how reliable CBD power actually is. Iβve seen uptimes of 3000 days back in the good ol days
@tubsta melbourne cbd? so missing living in melbourne :D
Dominic πͺπΊ π³οΈβπ πΊπ¦@codingWombat @tubsta @nixCraft ββ¦but remember the big outage last quarter? the cleaning staff knocked the power cable out. we still havenβt figured out what the box does, but it seems to be important.β
Viss
Aleksei οΏ½ Matiushkin@nixCraft professional developers
Wolfram RΓΆsler@nixCraft People who know how to use the shell
f1zz-e
Phil Ashby 
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Timotheus Schneidegger
b-loved dreamer
Ryu Gen π unemployed
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Bit Regurgitator@nixCraft lunch beers
Alex 
@arichtman @nixCraft Did you mean lunch or launch? I remember launch team parties before we simply went into the next sprint.
ShawnT π§π@nixCraft Ethernet cable crimping contests.
Pickle Rick 
@nixCraft Do they still have suspended floors with suction cups to pick up the tiles? I always thought those were awesome. (I haven't been inside a server room in many years...)
Gary 
@beeftacos @nixCraft we still have them π
Koos van den Hout@beeftacos @nixCraft suspended floors and if you pick up a tile you see layers and layers of cabling: serial, coax, utp, fiber with blinking equipment here and there that may or may not be an active part of some network.
svartpæng
Alexa Devreux-Swift
SkjeggtrollThe faint scent of counter-culture.
Mania Emma
KlavsKlavsen@nixCraft interest and thus knowledge about how the lower layers of their systems work - would be my biggest. We have chosen to hire programmers and educate them in that.. slowly.. as even with 5-10 year exp. devops people we found that they are lacking the 'mental strength' to actually learn this. Its hard - but its really necessary. Being a big team we try to make it easier than ever for everyone - by having exp. colleagues to talk to.
@KlavsKlavsen @nixCraft I am constantly demonstrating to my devops and automation team how many problems can be solved by looking at the layers below layer 4. If it's inconsistent and flaky, have you looked at the power supply and connectors?
Mathieu
Ivo Limmen@nixCraft server rooms that where old discarded desktops π
Staz@ivolimmen @nixCraft on the contrary, sweet, in-house top-notch computers that get passed down to the childs of the staff when they were replaced by the latest gen. Or caritative associations of course
My dad worked IT at architecture firm that used the first gens of video cards π thanks dad
SkyBlitz
random thoughts@nixCraft The fun of learning and doing. You had to investigate, ask people, learn, discuss, argue, implement. None of this vibe coding shit.
tth
Paul Williams@nixCraft 365+ day uptime!
Shiraz Turvey π π²@nixCraft The 3.5" emergency boot disc (or 5.25" for those who didn't upgrade from the 80s)
Simon Greenwood@nixCraft
The server under someone's desk that everything is somehow routed through.
The server under someone's desk that everything is somehow routed through.
MrGrumpyMonkey
Paul@mrgrumpymonkey @nixCraft Yeah, but only CRTs with a Degauss button, solely for the wonderful boing noise it generated.
Dent, Arthur Dent@nixCraft inter-office mail cubbies!
Paul G
Ozgur
Ray McCarthy
Douglas Floyd@nixCraft Cheap tape drives, so we know data is able to be backed up offline easily. I'd love a LTO drive, but I don't have $5-9k for a basic single drive.
Kevin
Resuna
Zimbobble π@nixCraft human beings
Wish the sun to stand still π@nixCraft CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs that could not be infected with malware after they were created.
xiffy
Vastmans ππ±@nixCraft @peterjsefton MS Office on thirtysomething floppies. Gave us from IT more time to rest, awaiting the installation. π
Peter Sefton πͺπΊπΊπ¦
Captain Salem@nixCraft IRC please.