Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:12:17 -0700 From: Brad Wetmore <bradford.wetmore@sun.com> X-Accept-Language: en To: spaf@cerias.purdue.edu Subject: Server 54, Where are you?
If you haven't seen this yet, you will soon...
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20010409S0001
Server 54, Where Are You?
The University of North Carolina has finally found a network server that, although missing for four years, hasn't missed a packet in all that time.
Try as they might, university administrators couldn't find the server. Working with Novell, IT workers tracked it down by meticulously following cable until they literally ran into a wall. The server had been mistakenly sealed behind drywall by maintenance workers.
-- John Rendleman
As one of my coworkers said, it obviously was running some form of UNIX...
Brad