Re: Schrödinger's Laptop
Back around 2006 I had a couple of DEC Alphas still running in the data centre. (Yes, they were from Digital!) The last of the applications had just ported over to Linux but they were running just for a backup in case something went wrong with the conversion. But our annual data centre shut down weekend for maintenance (don't ask) was coming up and I really wanted to get the permission to turn them off before that weekend. They had been up for another year and I didn't really want to worry if they were going to come back up.
Disappointing. I was expecting, when the power came back on, the Alphas would've been the only ones booting up successfully.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
