PING 127.0.0.1 I know it is around here somewhere...

Oh god, have we really come around to screenshotting bash.org?

Yeah incredible, this is like a 20yo quote!
To be fair, this one is more relevant now than it was 20 years ago, with watches and pens being IP capable nowadays.
well someone made that screenshot all by themselves! so, you know... original content 😆
- I never claimed that it's original content :) I included the quote numbers for all the IRC posts I did, so people can look it up on bash.org . I also slightly edited the posts - adding some color coding and removing clutter info (if applicable) so it's easier to read. I would've posted as text if that formatting was available.
The 20 year olds don’t know :)
I'm just sad they never added all the ones I submitted 20-whatever years ago.
Scrapping the barrel eh
- Just thought I'd point out that you probably meant "scraping the barrel" as in scraping the last dregs out of it instead of "scrapping" as in discard or remove from service

That reminds me of a university or company where they had a mission critical server that they couldn't locate. It was running perfectly, but after numerous searches they still couldn't find it. Finally it was found behind a wall...

Was it this? https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/
- That sounds true, yeah.

I had a client at a law firm who moved to a different city, but continued to remote into his computer at work. At some point someone moved it to some other spot in the building so they could have someone else use his desk, and he continued to use it without issue.

Until one day it shut down, while he was in the middle of something very important and lawyery. No one at the firm was willing to look for it (as they were all lawyers), so we had to send a technician on site to just check each room until he spotted an old computer connected to power and Ethernet in the corner of a mail room.

Some months later it happened again, in a the middle of another important time sensitive lawyer thing. Except now he had two headless computers which he used both of (an old computer and a new one he was migrating to), and he still didn't know where they were physically. Luckily there was a intern on site to do the search this time, but it took some time to figure out which was which when we did locate them.

Where were they the second time?

@lukstru At the end of the 90s our company had to patch and restart all servers of our customers to make the server software Y2K safe. One colleague travelled from customer to customer. At one customer he said: "I have to patch your server". The answer: "What is a server? We don't have something like that."

The colleague then traced the network cable through the workshop to a huge pile of wood scrap. that filled a part of the room. They had to remove that scrap for quite some time and then found the server there. The Novell server had an uptime of several years.

@lukstru Some other story that really happened. A company moved to another place, so step by step they located and moved the servers in the server room from the old to the new location. In the end there was a single server left in the server room. They didn't knew the purpose and were sure that they needn't that server - and they were right. Several years ago that company belonged to another company in the same area. At one point in time the company had been sold. That server belonged to the old company and still served a critical purpose for them.

Simple, load up the PC speaker driver and play some sound through it.

@kevincox does anyone other than me even still have motherboard speakers?

Having been working around with a Raspberry Pi for my class, I can't imagine just randomly throwing mine somewhere without giving a care. Those bitches are too damn expensive 😂

$35?
- half a year ago you could put a 1 in front of that for the 4 GB model, as they basically had no supply and prices skyrocketed
- where?

I don't quite recall, but I think they were moved again to an office or something. No idea who was moving computers around and properly connecting them to the network, it wasn't us (contracted IT). At least they put both this guy's computers directly next to eachother. But nothing was labelled. I recall trying to get someone onsite to label the computers both times and I don't think it ever happened lol.

I think another wrinkle was that most of the attorneys were at that time being migrated or already using a single remote desktop server in a Colo, so I don't know why the customer got this guy a second remote computer. The owner had a tendency of just buying computers without consulting us, and this particular lawyer was a bit of a squeaky faucet with tech, and the RDS was.. less than perfect. So that's probably it.

Some say he’s still searching to this day…

This dude doesn't understand what a CAM table is, so I feel like this quote is just laughing at an idiot who thinks he is smart. Which I'm not necessarily against, but then you have tons of people in the comments who are "good with computers" who don't understand it either. the tl;dr is that this guy doesn't have a clue and anyone who is "looking for a computer" without logging into the network infrastructure to find the MAC is just an idiot.

God forbid a person doesn't know something in a highly technical field. Not everyone is a CISCO certified network engineer, some people build home LAN networks for fun or self-host in order to learn new things. I highly doubt you never were stumped by a network behaving strangely, or had a brain fart moment and misconfigured something. Learn some humility.
- I mean that's fine, but he is posting on IRC and bash. Casual people don't post there and have no idea what those things are. But this guy specifically thinks very highly of himself in a technical capacity, but doesn't understand basic networking. People like him make everyone else's life worse.
It's in his apartment. Unmanaged switches and/or WiFi.