[TriLUG] In search of the walled machine at UNC

[Jon Carnes]

I remember reading about it before I was married (I stopped getting the
paper then), so it would have been 8 to 10 years ago. That would also
put the server in the time period of the Novell 3.1 server - one of the
most stable beasts to ever be created by man.

I don't think the on-line archives go back that far for the N&O. Does
the Admin for the med school go back that far? As I recall there were
several departments to the med school, each with an admin in charge -
sort of like a many headed beast - a many, mini-headed beast...

Jon

On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 15:14, Jeff Bollinger wrote:
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> That's very interesting.  I can't find the article when I search at
> newsandobserver.com and I spoke with the administrator of the Medical
> School who also said it was not true, and who also said he heard it
> happened on MAIN campus!  Wow, lots of red herrings here.  I think it's
> am amusing story, but it's really nothing more than a Novell commercial.
> 
> http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2001-05/sunflash.20010521.3.html
> 
> Jeff
> 
> Jon Carnes wrote:
> | On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 11:14, Thomas C. Meggs wrote:
> |
> |>What comes to mind immediately when I hear Novell is that it is very
> |>often used in medical environments, and the Med School could very well
> |>have had a Novell server hiding away somewhere doing something inane.
> |>
> |>As far as Novell taking credit for finding the server, it could have
> |>even just been a Novell contractor on site helping out with a support
> |>issue, they didn't neccesarily have to utilize any black magic. :)
> |>
> |>Regards,
> |>Tom
> |
> |
> | I read this story in the paper when it happened.  The computer was at
> | the Medical school.  They had some quotes from the Administrator of the
> | Med School.  Apparently their network and machines had been installed by
> | multiple contractors over a lot of time and no one was fully up-to-date
> | on everything on their net.
> |
> | If this is a hoax then it was an elaborate one that fooled the News and
> | Observer.
> |
> | I did some work for the Med school back when I was a contractor.  Some
> | of the buildings were in horrible shape.  They looked like a giant
> | kindergartner had taken a couple of Victorian houses and crammed them
> | together.  There were corridors that didn't go anywhere, hallways with
> | steps that mysteriously carried you up four feet then right back down
> | again to *almost* the same level - where the hallway continued - Windows
> | that opened up onto solid brick walls...
> |
> | I could easily believe that a server was drywalled over and forgotten
> | about.
> |
> | Jon Carnes
> |
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> Jeff Bollinger
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