Lisbon, Portugal, day 2
Second day of our trip, first day actually wandering around the beautiful sunny city of Lisbon, in Portugal.
The Shabby Trabi. Garf Technology Christmas card 2008.
I had my wallet stolen and spent the last few days at the police station and various banks. Didn’t feel much like taking photos. But at least my camera wasn’t stolen, so I’m out taking pictures again.
Editors note: these were our last Windows server builds. These machines were both upgraded to GNU/Linux in 2008, and MS Windows was completely removed. 2005-05-20 New MS Windows NT Server servers in Chieftec cases.
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