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Scarpozzi said:
Do you still run Netware though? I'm certified in 5 and 6! Sad to see how that company has been split apart. I always though Jack Messman was a great CEO....especially because he looked a little like Rip Torn:
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I ran a netware server at home for my file, print, dhcp, dns, directory services. I messed with iprint and ifolder and a few other web services. I transitioned from IPX to IP with NW6 and even ran my eDir tree across a wan. Server motherboard fried itself a few years ago and I havent had time to resurrect the server. Always was my favorite OS for providing office network services, damn thing was rugged and ran forever, despite the growing lack of apps (developers shunning the complexity of developing NLM apps for the netware environment). Sadly ive used windows for my home servers lately...
 
NetWareHead said:
I ran a netware server at home for my file, print, dhcp, dns, directory services. I messed with iprint and ifolder and a few other web services. I transitioned from IPX to IP with NW6 and even ran my eDir tree across a wan. Server motherboard fried itself a few years ago and I havent had time to resurrect the server. Always was my favorite OS for providing office network services, damn thing was rugged and ran forever, despite the growing lack of apps (developers shunning the complexity of developing NLM apps for the netware environment). Sadly ive used windows for my home servers lately...
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The biggest problem with running 3rd party apps was the OS memory management. OS layer memory was shared with the apps....so if you ran JAVA and had a memory leak with no garbage collection, your system could run out of memory. I'm not sure how that would work these days with most servers at 16-128GB of memory. I'm still a 4GB-6GB Ram kind of guy...I think more memory unless on Linux/Unix with Oracle is a waste...

Yeah...IPX was great if you didn't have to route anywhere. I started with Netware 3.12 and 4...then 5.1, 6, 6.5....SuSE Linux and Open Enterprise Server. The switch from bindery to eDirectory was rough, but eDir is still superior to AD....even though it lost the war. iPrint is still a cool concept and iFolder is similar to Google Drive, OneDrive, and all the other apps with similar sync technologies.... I only tangled with Groupwise a little, but ran just about every other product they sold except Sentinal and a few of the other workflow snapins. I miss the old days. 😀
 
Someone at work a few years ago microwaved squid in the breakroom, I don't think there is a worse smell. It smellled like a combination of overcooked fish and burning hair.
 
Harrod said:
Someone at work a few years ago microwaved squid in the breakroom, I don't think there is a worse smell. It smellled like a combination of overcooked fish and burning hair.
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Reheating squid should be a little smelly but overall ok. Cooking squid in a microwave is just improper cooking technique...how the hell is that supposed to taste good??
 
At the last place I worked, some retard put a metal cup in the microwave so he could reheat his coffee. Yeah, it caught the microwave on fire....
 
Scarpozzi said:
The biggest problem with running 3rd party apps was the OS memory management. OS layer memory was shared with the apps....so if you ran JAVA and had a memory leak with no garbage collection, your system could run out of memory. I'm not sure how that would work these days with most servers at 16-128GB of memory. I'm still a 4GB-6GB Ram kind of guy...I think more memory unless on Linux/Unix with Oracle is a waste...

Yeah...IPX was great if you didn't have to route anywhere. I started with Netware 3.12 and 4...then 5.1, 6, 6.5....SuSE Linux and Open Enterprise Server. The switch from bindery to eDirectory was rough, but eDir is still superior to AD....even though it lost the war. iPrint is still a cool concept and iFolder is similar to Google Drive, OneDrive, and all the other apps with similar sync technologies.... I only tangled with Groupwise a little, but ran just about every other product they sold except Sentinal and a few of the other workflow snapins. I miss the old days. 😀
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Lol no one I knew was masochistic enough to run java apps on a NW server :biggrin: I mean yeah it could be done... Anyway I liked IPX. No DHCP needed, It was self configuring using the mac address of the NIC as its own address. It broadcasted for the network # which obtained from the server or router. And routing wasnt even too bad...every multihomed NW server functioned automatically as a router. And if you didnt want to use NW serever as router, than IPX routing on a cisco router was not hard at all. You just had to pick the proper frame type and network number when initially setting up. As much as I loved NW, IPX/SPX treated the NW server as the ultimate focus. And the more NW servers you had, the more SAP broadcasts you would get to the point of saturation. I guess not much of a problem now with today's network hardware but back in the days f token ring and 10 and 100 base T ethernet, it was a concern. And groupwise was solid and awesome...loved it so much better than exchange or notes
 
NetWareHead said:
Reheating squid should be a little smelly but overall ok. Cooking squid in a microwave is just improper cooking technique...how the hell is that supposed to taste good??
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It was in there for a few minutes, not 30-40 seconds to warm it up again.
 
Probably the worst food to warm up at work is squid. I'm not sure what the hell female coworker at old job was thinking! Poor ventilation + squid and vinegar (and whatever else was in there) made most coworkers and even visitors sick. Some left work early, I stayed and sprayed Lysol in the kitchen and my cubicle.

After that, company director sent mass email out to everyone that no more seafood is allowed at work.

EDIT: I see squid has been mentioned already. Some people think the work kitchen is their home and can cook whatever they want.
 
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CraKaJaX said:
I more-so hate the (usually obese) people who decide to microwave something a normal person would consider lunch or dinner at 8:30AM (ie, FUCKING CHICKEN WINGS). Why god? WHY? I would welcome the smell of a burnt bagel around here.

Just another day in the office I suppose.
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I just heated up leftover enchilada's and rice for my breakfast here. Everyone in the office and you can suck it!!! I'm eating this shit!!! lol
 
CraKaJaX said:
I more-so hate the (usually obese) people who decide to microwave something a normal person would consider lunch or dinner at 8:30AM (ie, FUCKING CHICKEN WINGS). Why god? WHY? I would welcome the smell of a burnt bagel around here.

Just another day in the office I suppose.
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what's the big deal with that?

a lot of times, if I have like 20% of my lunch leftover, I'll just leave it at the office and reheat it for lunch the next morning (usually something like half of a sandwich or leftover chicken and rice)
 
I used to work at a place where I was close to a break room where people would line up to warm up their lunches in a microwave. I swear it smelled like ass was a popular lunch item.
 
buddy of mine reheated some leftovers at lunch one day, meant to put 3:00 on the timer ... inadvertently added an extra '0' on the end. Walked off, totally forgot about it. The whole kitchen area filled with smoke... it took the remainder of the week for the smell to go away.
 
Gunslinger08 said:
But microwave popcorn generally smells good.
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It's not about smells, your coworker talking too loud or making noises or, poor behavior in the public bathrooms at work. It's about the limited number of "safe" topics to vent about when you're a cube monkey. It's stress relief. I'm sure hamsters really hate a wheel that squeaks.
 
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