CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@davidgerard I have not heard Itanium mentioned in a long while, so thanks for resurfacing those nightmares.

In 2007 I was assigned to do all the engineering work to move our fortune 100 company's stuff on HPUX with PA-RISC to Itanic. Some doofus decided this vs Linux. Single point of failure to redundant systems; Sybase, 20k+ batch jobs, MQ, C/C++, Java. All done in ~ 9 months. Giant cookbook for teams to follow.

We then even upgraded to Itanium 2, then HPVMs...ugh. Really poor architects.

Here's why you have a sacrificial old bar and chain for your saw when cutting yard trees. Didn't hit it, but knew there was metal in there; just didn't expect to find this much when splitting it! #firewood #chainsaw