Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 21:17:23 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

The servers that I am responsible for run boring Debian Stable
installations, but even they are not really ugly (noisy and hot, yes,
but that’s another matter); the server makers decided decades ago that
they had to hire industrial designers to make their products look at
least minimally photogenic, so photos of racks and racks of
blinkenlights were actually worth taking, and using to spice up boring
articles and presentations, instead of making them even more boring.

When I was at CostCo yesterday I took the aisle past the computer stuff
since there was less traffic than the main aisle. I passed something with
a plexiglas enclosure and blinkens. Kept on moving.

It was bad enough when IT got a batch of fans with LEDs. Knowing how they
operate they were the cheapest selection on NewEgg.