Message from discussion Linux Rocks - film at 11

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From: Craig Kelley <i...@inconnu.isu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Linux Rocks - film at 11
Date: 18 Oct 2001 23:12:56 -0600
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"[H]omer" <u...@ftc.com> writes:

 [snip about invincible Redhat installation]

> It's still standing !!!

Funny you should bring it up; just today I was talking with a buddy of
mine and she told me the story of her box that is running Slackware 2.
It began life in '96 with a 1.2.13 kernel, and it runs a 2.4.x kernel
now complete with glibc 2.2 and everything in between.  She killed the
box once doing an upgrade of libc (and ever since, she's kept every
version of libc inbetween -- its probably the only Linux box in the
world capable of running *any* Linux binary dynamically linked).

No packages, no Xconfigurator, nada.  Amazing.

> Ok, so it's moved from one disk to another then back, but it's still the
> same installation of RH.

:)  Yep, she did that too.  Her system has >100gb of storage now, but
its running on an older K6 (lost her posh machine in the dot-bomb).

 [snip]

> 'The configuration information of the performance library
> "D:\WINNT\System32\w3ctrs.dll" for the "W3SVC" service does not match the
> trusted performance library information stored in the registry. The
> functions in this library will not be treated as trusted.'

I can add another hundred, or so, like-wise error "messages" to that
one.  My favorite is a WINS error we got and the error message in the
event viewer went like this (I kid you not):

 "WINS encountered an error.  The error is in the data."

Nice.

 [snip]

-- 
It is financially more expensive to go to prison than to attend Harvard.
Craig Kelley  -- kellc...@isu.edu
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