in ~1996
<bashrc> humidity could cause strange behavior of the coax networks
<diddledan> so linux was about 6 years old. a regular bubby
<zmoylan-pi> there's a famous story of a novell netware server walled up for a couple of years accidently and still kept running.
<ali1234> netware was probably still better than linux in 1999 but it was crippled due to using IPX not TCP/IP
<popey> i think there are still fat ethernet cables laid at my local college that I put in 20 years ago.
<JamesTait> GTA over IPX over coax made up far too much of my final year at uni.
<zmoylan-pi> they are kept to punish the bad pupils :-)
<bashrc> a company I was at used netware until about 2003
<popey> IPXSPX
<popey> NETX
<popey> IPODI!
<popey> memories...
<zmoylan-pi> don't forget share.exe if you want file locking :-)
<diddledan> netbeui?
<diddledan> is that spelt right?
<bashrc> something like that
<awilkins> Ugh, had blocked all that horrible networking stuff from my mind
<diddledan> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBIOS
<awilkins> Hooray for TCP/IP
<MooDoo> one of my first certification was for Novell Netware....
<MooDoo> blast from the past
<diddledan> crazy that MS still clings to netbios names
<zmoylan-pi> my boss while at a wedding saw the hotels server sitting behind reception desk leaned over and downed their server while drunk for a giggle.
<MooDoo> bit of a T**t then
<diddledan> zmoylan-pi, well you would, wouldn't you!
<zmoylan-pi> waking up the next morning at checkout he saw the technical staff frantically at the server wondering what was wrong.  he 'fixed' it for them and slunk out so embarrassed.
<MooDoo> what a kn*b
<zmoylan-pi> drunk, very drunk...
<JamesTait> My first job out of uni involved preparing for Y2K by migrating our Novell Netware 4 network to a Windows NT domain (to also integrate our small office network with the group network over ISDN).
<zmoylan-pi> but he'd tell that story to customers as to why they shouldn't put servers in publically accessible places so some good came of it
<diddledan> o_O the gadget 