[Tfug] Tracking down a miscreant

[John Gruenenfelder]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 10:22:17PM -0700, Harry McGregor wrote:
>It's funny how things come full circle...
>
>The box was sold by John Gruenenfelder to Josh Bernstein quite a number 
>of years ago (it's a 1U SUN x86 box), and it looks like a restore that 
>Josh did at one point put back some of the config that pointed at John's 
>domain.
>
>The issue should be solved now...  Of course John used to be at LPL I 
>think, and now Josh sells computers to LPL (penguin computing), and all 
>involved go back about 8-10 years...  Whats the chances that a post to 
>the TFUG list would actual result in the owner being found.

Indeed it is a small world!

I remember that box.  I won it in 2003 at the 1st annual Les TropheÃs du Libre
in France for my Weasel Reader ebook software.  They mailed it back to Tucson
for me and I used it as a file server and router for a short time.

But, it a) sounded like a jet engine even with the door closed and b) is
rackmount and I have no rack (I set it on a small table in the closet).  If I
recall, I traded it to Josh for a PIII Sony Vaio laptop and a switch or
harddrive.  Something like that.

Now I can cross #6 off my list of life goals: Discover what happened to my old
file server.

:)


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