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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 14:08:37 JST nixCraft 🐧

   In a big, empty room filled with computers, there's an old Sun Solaris server sitting under a desk no one remembers. It has an uptime of over 20 years. Every day, a cron job runs on a forgotten Solaris box, generating critical financial data everyone uses to make retirement investments. Even though no one thinks about this box, everyone needs it & fetches that data using FTP. It works all alone, making sure people can retire comfortably. It's like a secret helper, quietly working in the cold.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 14:11:59 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     JPMorgan Chase & Co charges $10k for that data presented in nice PDF and Excel format. Life is not fair, I guess.

   • Ranjeeth Malachira Devaiah (ranjeethmd@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 15:46:28 JST Ranjeeth Malachira Devaiah

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     @nixCraft that speaks a lot about the server and the OS and stupid business model Sun microsystems had.

   • ajayspwmi (ajayspwmi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 16:48:25 JST ajayspwmi

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     @nixCraft https://lawncareexperts.online/manage.php?gem_id=410&ocm_id=e3c29bd3-1d95-11ef-a697-e3c2ded8

   • priyaanne (priyaanne@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 18:23:49 JST priyaanne

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     @nixCraft https://lawncareexperts.online/manage.php?gem_id=410&ocm_id=e3c29bd3-1d95-11ef-a697-e3c2ded8

   • David Rosicke (drosickesho@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 20:40:03 JST David Rosicke

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     @nixCraft right next to it is a Netware server running a 3270 gateway connected to a modem bank...

   • Ainsley Lowbeer (ainsleylowbeer@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 04:12:35 JST Ainsley Lowbeer

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     @nixCraft It takes slices of a penny for every transaction. It's the world's richest computer.