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Sep. 6th, 2002 09:21 amI was drinking with a friend and friend's cow orker last night, and one of the first things the cow orker trotted out was how he'd once upon a time set up a Linux box for his old college, and put it in a closet somewhere, and then years later he got a phone call to say it had stopped working, and yadda, and it turns out that the Linux box had been bricked up in a wall and had run happily until someone killed the power to the entire building.
Except I kinda interrupted before the end of the story to say I'd heard it before, but with Novell boxes.
I'd just met the guy, so I then made a hasty attempt to take my foot out of my mouth and make like perhaps his was the story that the Novell story was based on or something. Anyway, we had many drinks, and other stories, and the whole thing was forgotten about.
By strange coincidence, earlier this week I interviewed someone for a desktop support job (here, you, this desk only has three legs. crouch under it and hold it up.) and he trotted out the Novell story, except it was something /he'd/ done in Armenia.
So now I'm beginning to wonder if the original story isn't an urban legend as well. This article seems to indicate that yes, it is a legend: http://www.networkcomputing.com/1119/1119f1products_2.html,
while Novell themselves certainly seem to think it's gospel: (bottom of page). The article that Novell's piece points to, though, is dated April 9th, which suggests that perhaps this was reporting an April Fool's joke. That said, the canonical Urban Legend site doesn't appear to mention this anywhere. Perhaps I should submit it.
Except I kinda interrupted before the end of the story to say I'd heard it before, but with Novell boxes.
I'd just met the guy, so I then made a hasty attempt to take my foot out of my mouth and make like perhaps his was the story that the Novell story was based on or something. Anyway, we had many drinks, and other stories, and the whole thing was forgotten about.
By strange coincidence, earlier this week I interviewed someone for a desktop support job (here, you, this desk only has three legs. crouch under it and hold it up.) and he trotted out the Novell story, except it was something /he'd/ done in Armenia.
So now I'm beginning to wonder if the original story isn't an urban legend as well. This article seems to indicate that yes, it is a legend: http://www.networkcomputing.com/1119/1119f1products_2.html,
while Novell themselves certainly seem to think it's gospel: (bottom of page). The article that Novell's piece points to, though, is dated April 9th, which suggests that perhaps this was reporting an April Fool's joke. That said, the canonical Urban Legend site doesn't appear to mention this anywhere. Perhaps I should submit it.
