content: deleted by user We didn't know shit about UNIX. My boss was a shyster of ultimate magnitude. I think he came to me in a dream after he died, a real hanger-oner type guy. He could sell an Ice Cube to an Eskimo and everyone would walk away happy. It would be a few years after this until I started getting into Linux. Back when getting Slackware running was a marathon and meant something. Someone had sold these real estate agents some old servers from an MLS system. They were using it in their office and had people using it as a service, like a server on a bookshelf basically. I knew the ins and outs of the PC hardware, but my only experience with SCSI had been on Macs. This was a PC running some kind of UNIX with a server SCSI controller and some double height 3.5" SCSI drives. I was able to determine one of the drives wasn't working. These drives had a gold case, IIRC they were Seagate. I was out of ideas, so I took the drive out and set it up on a windowsill so it would warm up. I guess I am reminded of this because someone handed me a Burrito today from his dashboard and said "my microwave" and talked about how he parked his truck facing the sun to keep his lunch warm on days like this. We came back an hour later, and wouldn't you know it, the drive was warm enough and it spun up. We figured out how to offload the data and the day was saved. Go Solar!