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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:30:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <991f7103-7285-4531-a227-1c7953d4a158@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <532738DB.5020201@xunil.at>

On 17 March 2014 19:03:07 CET, "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at> wrote:
>Am 17.03.2014 18:53, schrieb J. Roeleveld:
>
>> Good luck.
>> Mondays are always fun for that.
>> 
>> I always prefer weekends for migrations like this.
>
>I wasn't asked.
>The motherboard and power supply were dead this morning.
>
>And the customer had nothing else at hand ... so I had to plug the
>disks
>into another new PC and get things going.
>
>But new hardware needs a current kernel ... leading to all this.
>
>Thanks, Stefan

I know.
It usually comes at the least convenient moment.

I do think it's the customers' fault for not keeping up with normal maintenance schedules. Most companies write off hardware after 3-4 years.

--
Joost
-- 
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-17 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-17 17:27 [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone? Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-03-17 17:44 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-03-17 17:46   ` J. Roeleveld
2014-03-17 17:48     ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-03-17 17:53       ` J. Roeleveld
2014-03-17 18:03         ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-03-17 18:30           ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2014-03-17 18:35             ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-03-17 19:30               ` J. Roeleveld
2014-03-17 19:52                 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-03-17 20:06                   ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-03-17 20:15                   ` J. Roeleveld
2014-03-17 20:18                     ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-03-17 20:41                       ` J. Roeleveld
2014-03-17 21:02                   ` Poison BL.
2014-03-17 21:42                     ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-03-17 22:04                       ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-03-19  8:52                         ` Stefan G. Weichinger

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