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[–] [email protected] 101 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Startup in a rented house in a residential neighborhood

“Router” was an old PC running Linux with a few network cards, with no case, with a household fan pointed at it to keep it cool

Loose ethernet cables and little hubs everywhere

Every PC was its own thing and some people were turbo nerds. I had my Linux machine with its vertical monitor; there were many Windows machines, a couple Macs, servers and 2 scrounged Sun workstations also running Linux

No DHCP, pick your own IP and tell the IT guy, which was me, and we’ll set you up. I had a little list in my notebook.

It was great days my friends

We went out of business; no one was shocked

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

with a household fan pointed at it to keep it cool

It had a CPU fan, right?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

How??

Oh, you're not OCP. Funny though.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I kind of want to work there though.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. I turned in a time card once that had over 24 hours of work on it in a row. The boss was dating a stripper, and she would sometimes bring stripper friends to our parties and hangouts. We had ninja weapons in the office. The heat was shitty, so in the winter we had to use space heaters, but that would overload the house’s power which would cause a breaker to blow which obviously caused significant issues, so a lot of people would wear coats at their desks in the winter, but that obviously doesn’t do much for your typing fingers which was an issue. I frequently would sleep in the office on the couch (a couple of people were living in bedrooms in the upstairs of the house).

Like I say, it’s not surprising that we went out of business. It was definitely pretty fuckin memorable though. Those are just some of the stories or right-away memorable pieces off the top of my head.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Loose ethernet cables and little hubs everywhere

actual hubs; not switches?!!!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I want you to guess what is the answer to this question

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Gonna have nightmares tonight, thanks

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I like that about my IT dept here too. You pick your own IP and he just patches you in,

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was gonna ask why they didn't use DHCP and then I remembered half the stuff in my home network doesn't either.

Still have half of the IP range available for DHCP tho

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I think I eventually did install a DHCP server with a high-up reserved range for it to allocate IP addresses out of. The main body of machines were still statically configured, though, because we needed them on static IPs and I couldn't really get dhcpd to get it right consistently after a not too long amount of trying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It sounds more fun than any actual company, I must say

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

What kinda business was this? What was being made/sold?