[GRLUG] A Moment of Silence

[Topher]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Eric Beversluis wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 15:30 -0400, Topher wrote:
>> On 09/07/2011 03:10 PM, Ben Rousch wrote:
>>> I would like to ask for a moment of silence. I just decommissioned my
>>> company's main Samba virtual machine which had been running Ubuntu
>>> 6.06 LTS since 2006. There were times in between power outages when it
>>> had more than a year of up-time. I think I rebooted it only twice in 5
>>> years due to system instability. The VM host server is getting a fresh
>>> new VMWare ESXi 5 install, and the Samba VM will be replaced by Debian
>>> 6.
>>>
>>> What systems do you have fond memories of?
>>
>> When I worked at Cornerstone my desktop stayed up for about a year and a
>> half twice.  That's the longest I ever had a desk in one place.
>>
>>
>> Unrelated to uptime I have a favorite story about a machine as well.
>>
>> When I worked at Gospelcom our servers were all named after cities of
>> the Bible.  We had Jerusalem, Jericho, Ai, etc.
>>
>> When we were considering getting a windows server to support a new
>> client that really needed windows we had to come up with a name for it,
>> and my suggestion was Gehenna.
>>
>> "Gehenna is cited in the New Testament. In early Christian writing it
>> represents the final place[citation needed] where the wicked will be
>> punished or destroyed after[citation needed] the Resurrection of the Dead.
>>
>> In the synoptic gospels Jesus uses the word Gehenna 11 times to describe
>> the opposite to life in the Kingdom (Mark 9:43-48).[17] It is a place
>> where both soul and body could be destroyed (Matthew 10:28) in
>> "unquenchable fire" (Mark 9:43)."
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna#New_Testament
>>
> So was your suggestion accepted?

No, too many people in our community would have gotten it.  More's the 
pity.

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