What's the difference between a modern data center and some manufacturing plants? One has cloud computing, the other has 'cloud...of dust' around a Windows XP machine.
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Luckily, our DOS systems (computer and motion control system) are becoming increasingly hard to find hardware for so they are hoping to replace stuff soon after they run out.
Up until a couple of years ago I used to regularly maintain a windows 3.1 install in a paper mill in Finland (it ran an old but still great machine) twas a little dusty :)
I work in a factory and our software that handles the instructions for the factory still uses XP.
Depending on thr factory it's not uncommon to see floppy disks still being used to operate CNC equipment.
Why spend money on capital upgrades when there are zero benefits?
I worked in a factory that still had automated machines from the the 40s that worked more consistently than the modern stuff. Sure it wasn't as precise, but you dont always need that level of precision. Sometimes simplicity is simply better.
I think I assumed that newer would mean better features but also a lot of things don’t need to be made complicated 🤔 thank you all for your responses I feel like I haven’t gotten much convo like this while wfh and I only had 1 year in office before covid 😶🌫️
And then having to explain to the owner that the costly update you pushed them to implement has 200 people standing around, and now the company will need to pay OT.
This scenario made me laugh out loud 😂 I’m contracting rn and someone just would not get my public keys added to the system- it took FOUR WEEKS and my manager almost had a stroke when he found out.
Im being paid way too much to sit around like that (He was gone for the last two weeks; multiple people pestered this person to get it done) so IMAGINE 200 people wow.
Interesting. My previous employer (pharmaceutical manufacturer) sold its (on site) data center which is not run by Amazon to host their cloud services 😂
I'm not at liberty to discuss my employer, for more than just personal career reasons, but I'm in a vastly more secure facility. Jeff wishes he has our data, but I guarantee it would've been leaked whether we used windows or Linux based security.
Vastly more secure than the datacenter holding all the IP of (back then) the worlds second biggest pharmaceutical manufacturers....
Sound absolutely legit /s
And the Windows XP machine sits in a long forgotten corner, controlling a massive single point of failure. Like say controlling key card door access to the data center.
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Contact closures and door controls, nothing special. Just slow to change.
Depending on thr factory it's not uncommon to see floppy disks still being used to operate CNC equipment.
Why spend money on capital upgrades when there are zero benefits?
Spewed logs clogging queues and object stores.
Sound absolutely legit /s