From jkovach@mbhs.edu Sun Nov 12 13:53:22 2000 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:07:15 -0500 (EST) From: Spaceboy To: Evil Dr. Porkchop Cc: James Dang , Justin Osborn , fogies@mbhs.edu Subject: Re: Calling all (former) Sysops! On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Evil Dr. Porkchop wrote: > dude, I'm impressed how much we all seem to remember about this stuff; one > thing I am noticing, though, is that we're hitting the core stuff (Binx, > Goober) pretty hard, but leaving out a lot of the fringe stuff. we > weren't all Unix weenies, or actually, we weren't all _just_ Unix > weenies. anybody remember the library Novell network? i do. I remember that too. During my time, only one computer could be on the Internet at the same time. When another person started Telnet/Netscape/whatever, your computer got kicked. One day when I was supposed to be doing research during class, I realized that all the computers had the same IP address due to workstation cloning. Duhhh. Mr Lasco gave me the administrator password and I fixed the library computers just in time for the move to the new school when they were retired! Yaaay! > > I was more of a utility infielder, and so I was root on Goober (when > Goober wasn't that important anymore, and was actually being treated like > a special projects machine), root on the Annex, a Mac admin now and then, > an MVHS traveling Linux admin/troubleshooter, and the Novell admin for > Blair and a couple of MVHS schools. We did a lot of work punching holes > in Netware/IPX so we could get existing Netware networks to talk IP. The > library network was 15 or so computers running WFW 3.11, hopefully they > are all on the scrap heap now. :) I think that Mr. Redos and his cronies distributed them throughout the school the year before he retired, and we chased them down as "unauthorized computers on the network" this summer. We either fixed them up with the standard software image and put them in classrooms, or we loaded them with freeware, Juno, and modems and gave them to students who couldn't afford computers.