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2024-09-25 01:01
in Computers, Linux
moremagic.merlins.org 2006-2024, you were made out of spare VA Linux parts, looks like I managed to shove a top of the line dual CPU MB in you, along with IDE CD-Rom, floppy, and SCSI for all the drives, a top of the line 180GB SCSI SCA drive sitting on top of the PCI ports, held up with zipties and wtih a CPU cooler on its side so it didn't overheat and die.
I hand flew you from home to Paris in 2006 in my luggage, and you were not light (now too heavy for todays' luggage weight limits).
You had a good life, 18 years, and you finally died of an unconfirmed death (but apparently related to multiple drive failure) and disappeared from the internet after many years of services running 4.16.8-ia32-preempt-sysrq-20180817. You will be missedrescuing/rebuilding magic, and magic back online and live
Moremagic v1 died after 18 years of service
Magic v3 died, upgrade to V4, Dell Poweredge 2950 and 64bit linux!
Magic v5: From Dell Poweredge 2950 to Raspberry Pi 5 (skipping Dell DSS1510)
Finishing Upgrade of Year 2000 Linux System From i386 to amd64 to arm64 for Raspberry Pi5 with mailman 2.1.7 for Python 2 (the last 5% that took 70% of the time)
Exim4 Mailman2 allow insecure tainted data local parts and local part data (what sadly made this migration a lot less fun around the end)
You had a good life, 18 years, and you finally died of an unconfirmed death (but apparently related to multiple drive failure) and disappeared from the internet after many years of services running 4.16.8-ia32-preempt-sysrq-20180817. You will be missed
Zip tied hard disk for the win!
careful packing for a plane flight to Paris
racked up
and upgraded with a new power supply when the original one, died
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