[TUHS] The MGR window system and the Macintosh
Henry Bent
henry.r.bent at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 09:00:00 AEST 2022
On Fri, 16 Sept 2022 at 18:51, Michael Parson <mparson at bl.org> wrote:
>
> My current boss was a news admin at Dejanews and was there during
> their end days. I was the sysadmin for the datacenter (SMARTNAP) that
> DejaNews was co-lo'd in. Everyone wanted to peer with my news server
> since it fed directly into Dejanews' stuff which was a couple of racks
> down from my stuff.
>
> Google bought Deja and ruined it.
I knew the head sysadmin from Dejanews very well and I remember his story
about them being bought out by Google. Google flew in a bunch of engineers
with a bunch of disks, imaged the whole database over a weekend, and then
fired everyone. Good times.
-Henry
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