Dumpster diving to revive a crashing NetWare server? It was acceptable in the '90s

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/27/who_me/

By Richard Speed
The Register
27 Apr 2020

Who, Me? Today is Monday the 58th of March 2020. As a service to stop the days 
blurring into one, take a moment to enjoy a tale of NetWare, Blu Tack and a 
broken pencil in today's Who, Me? reader confession.

This time we return to the 1990s, and to a region of Australia that our 
protagonist, a person we'll call "Howard", described as "a three-horse town 
where everyone knew who's dating everyone else's sister".

Top marks for the use of the word "dating" there, Howard.

Howard was plugging through the end of his education and working part time at a 
local computer store. His job mainly entailed popping out to deal with 
customers bigger than those that might be merely toiling along with word 
processing on a Windows 3.11 box.

His confession starts at what he told us was "a decent-sized financial 
institution" having trouble with NetWare 3.11. The system in question had to 
log (for legal reasons) card transactions that had been sent to an AS/400 for 
batch processing. While IBM's metal kept chugging along, at some point between 
2 and 6am the NetWare server would lock solid.

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