Sysadmining Like It's 2009

graypegg

The 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.youtube.com/@clabretro

Dragging-Syrup

Funny; Vista was the reason I switched to Linux as well.

rootsudo

It 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.

stackskipton

Just a heads up, There was a lot of problems running RSAT (Remote Admin GUI Tools) on Vista when interacting with 2008 R2. Windows 7 quickly became required for 2008 R2. (Windows 7 is client OS of 2008 R2) Otherwise, rock on.

EvanAnderson

None of the Windows side of that is tremendously far-removed from today. Syteline... Progress... Ugh. I'm having trouble overcoming the violent undulations of my spleen. So many memories of performance issues, "dump and reload" of databases, and Progress clustering issues (though that was with QAD ERP and not Symix/Syteline).

alephnerd

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

arjie

Vista 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 reloadable graphics drivers at the time which I much envied since it was not so easy to get graphics restarted on Linux if it froze. I had my Dell XPS M1330 set to dual boot into Vista. Power button would take me straight to windows. And the alternative bootloader Media button would take me straight to Ubuntu. Fun little setup. No need to grub chainload.

fennec-posix

Hearing what I cut my teeth on as "old computing" sure makes me feel old lmao

protocolture

>Configuring random Mikrotik devices as wlan to lan bridges Sometimes it just works. Sometimes it causes crazy issues. Depends on the wifi chip is my understanding.