>>On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Simón Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> For lagniappe, I'm still trying to train the librarians to "just
>>> reboot the thing; if it doesn't work again, leave it alone for a while
>>> and try rebooting it again later", a phrase which would have saved
>>> them every single support call relating to those things since we put
>>> them in.
>>
>>Just to clarify, this is because the only problems they've experienced
>>were "external" in nature, with the network between the card catalog
>>workstation and the server, and so no actual "support" has ever needed
>>to be performed on these machines other than rebooting them after
>>whatever network issues were cleared up.
>
> Thanks for clarifying. I was like "what, are they overheating?"
Yeah, I realized that made no sense out of the context of my experience.
> Do you happen to know when these boxes were? I'm interested.
They're MSI WindBOXes...there are newer versions of the box, II & III,
but we got the first run of them.
For what its worth, our first WindBOX has Ubuntu 7.10 on it, so it's
probably over 2 years old now, younger than 3.
> David
Simón
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