Neil, I speak like a bitter old crock from history, but IMHO good ole
Yeah is doomed to ACNS machine room purgatory. It's just a matter of
time now. Just like so many other *nix servers I helped to commission
in the early days when the Lord God said that *nix would never be a
serious reality at ISU--they ended up there to be starved to death
(thunder was the last one--remember that one Paul (arc) Cardwell?)
THe few that survived did so because Life Sciences and Arts and
Sciences were willing to battle the Gods and forced them to hire
Steve. I guess our final thumb-our-noses is to point out where we are
now: not only did they have to embrace unix big time, for even the
most basic institutional ERP needs, but they had to replace thunder
and the other services with more/better unix and they even use Linux!
(Mind you, this is the same group that said microchips would never
replace the mainframe, or that they would ever use a mouse! They even
opposed Ethernet, and even the internet--because they wanted to hang
on to BITNET-- why, it _had_ to be better that TCP/IP!)
The Lord God has spoken again: "FCRC should not be in ther server
business" and so it will be. We are thankful to John Madden and
before that to Steve Baker for its rescue from hacks and to put it
back on its feet. But just as I told you back in the days when we
brought up a Dreaded Unix Box in FCRC, it would meet its death either
by lack of caring and feeding, or by the politics of "control
freaks". I wasn't far off. I think the FCRC will be disolved into
something under ACNS (or whatever it's now called) or the Library,
with some portion of it kept over in Distance Ed., to provide basic
computer literacy to fewer and fewer faculty.
-C
Whomever is adminning yeah these days, can you please remove weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx from technocracy? I keep getting these and don't have admin access to the box anymore.
Neil
