Damn, I've gotten old - Windows Server 2008 and Vista almost feels like yesterday. It'll happen to you [0] [0] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlTexEXxLQ
It's happened!
Sysadmining Like It's 2009
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#42The last month or so, I've been watching a lot of clabretro's videos. If you find this sort of thing interesting (old enterprise software, and possibly the old servers/equipment that would run that software), you'll definitely like his channel! His retrorack is more from the early 2000s rather than the late 2000s, but there's probably still a good amount of cross over between what you're both doing. https://www.youtu…
more to come :)
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
It kills me that it never occurred to me there would be a market for videos of re-living the work I did from 1997 on. I could have made a ton of 'content' about that.
Right? When I saw the list of Server 2008 things it's like... (a) please no I don't want to see that again and (b) you do know that Server 2025 is basically the same, right?
That's actually the entire point of this specific endeavor. Windows server hasn't really changed that much, and professionally I deal with tons of small businesses remediating these sorts of legacy systems.
So in a sense I'm just setting the old systems up to have a better understanding when I engage to tear them down.
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#45Once in my career I had to work with Sun/Spark machines :D very bad practice, doesn't like to move from current modern tools back to the wild terminals experience, for the windows it's even worst
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#46Vista got a lot of hate when it came out but honestly, I liked it then and I continue to not think of it as problematic. It introduced `gksudo` to everyone and people complained about it but I was an Ubuntu user prior to using Vista so it felt natural to me. Overall, it was an operating system that worked well, as did Windows 7 afterwards with signed drivers and so on. In fact, those Windows versions got the reloadab…
It's fun running into Vista references in contemporary TV shows, which run the gamut from "it's like a good pair of jeans" [1] to "Vista! We're going to die!" [2]. I was too young to form much of an opinion on it, but I remember it feeling quite unstable. I can say I preferred Windows 8 to Windows 7, though.
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#47It doesn’t feel that 2009 is all that far away but… 17 years ago. I remember a lot of forums during 09” in fringe commodore groups and amiga. And they still go on. But yes 2009 was a different time, to be a sysadmin all you had to effectively know was how to reinstall an OS and drivers and you were golden.
> But yes 2009 was a different time, to be a sysadmin all you had to effectively know was how to reinstall an OS and drivers and you were golden. I got a lot of good business from helping small businesses recover from "sysadmins" who only knew how to reinstall the OS and drivers. I owe a lot to them. (So many bad Active Directory environments... So many ill-conceived attempts at using Group Policy, network segmentati…
Exactly, but at the same time many small businesses also followed cheapest vendor first which is how they got into those situations in the first place.
It was a great time, I learned my initial skils then, and I just wish I was more business minded or relocated to Seattle or California, would be much more ahead in my career and financial ladder.
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#48Got out of the game in 2013, this is cool. The days of people accessing things they shouldn't and (the pretty simple method of) hunting them down. All pretty trivial stuff, but when I see the tools available these days, it's mind boggling but not surprising.