Mark Gardner<p>Before moving to greener (and higher-paying 🤑) pastures, one of my two big "technical assistant" projects for <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Comcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Comcast</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Cellular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cellular</span></a> was upgrading the engineers' Sun <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a> workstations from the <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a>-based <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/SunOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunOS</span></a> 4 to <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/SVR4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SVR4</span></a>-based SunOS 5 (<a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solaris</span></a> 2), and from <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/NIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NIS</span></a> / <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/YellowPages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YellowPages</span></a> to NIS+.</p><p>In hindsight, it was a bad idea to make both changes at once, but I was a kid entranced by novelty and not yet very considerate of my users during the inevitable downtimes. (3/6)</p>