Comments on: Release Watson, IBM. Now. https://dfarq.homeip.net/release-watson-ibm-now/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=release-watson-ibm-now David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:35:55 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/release-watson-ibm-now/#comment-5942 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:35:55 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1892#comment-5942 In reply to Anonymous.

True enough. Ever-changing rules always make things more difficult.

And I’m totally not surprised that server is there still. I was about to say I’m sure that old NT4 server running that Webmail product was still around. So I looked, and yeah, it’s there. No further comment on that. I’m sure the other half-dozen NT4 servers that were still around in 2005 are still around too.

OK, one more comment. There’s this sysadmin I know named Bruce. In my circles, "Bruce" is slang for "shutting something down unannounced." I think you ought to hire Bruce for a 1-week consulting gig. He would do wonders for cleaning up your network.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/release-watson-ibm-now/#comment-5941 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:46:53 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1892#comment-5941 Hey, htdig would have worked, if the rules of
engagement for that data hadn’t kept changing, and
if I’d been given time to fix the couple of things
wrong with it.

You know, that server is still with us, three hardware
changes later, and it’s still running htdig. But there’s
nothing for it to search anymore; the shares were
moved to Windows, where nothing at all indexes
them, and the whole point of search-instead-of-
categorization has failed spectacularly.

I keep my important notes and documentation in
Emacs org-mode now, and feel sorry for people who
need to see them.

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