Subj : Tiers
To   : Jack Yates
From : Stewart Honsberger
Date : Thu Aug 02 2001 04:40 am

Hello Jack!

Aug 01 2001 21:10, Jack Yates wrote to TODD COCHRANE:

 TC>> Murphies Law works against ya with time so I am sure the worst will
 TC>> happen someday the key is to minimize the number of possible
 TC>> failures.

 JY> Which takes vigilance, and hands-on familiarity with your system; not 
 JY> letting it "run unattended", as Stewart has suggested.

Careful there, Jack, or you'll pull a hamstring.

You appear to be under the impression that I believe that servers should be 
setup and then forevermore ignored. This is not the case in the least. What I'm 
saying is that they shouldn't require hand-holding to ensure that they remain 
alive 24x7.

As I write, I'm about 25km away from my house, SSH'ed into my machine to 
read/respond to mail. I'm not checking the configs of my system, or asking my 
landlord to enter my appartment and check the status of my system, because I 
know that it's stable enough to continue to run while I'm away. If some act of 
nature should occur, fine, I'll ask my landlord to check on it. See, my system 
configuration has been tested to the point where it won't break on its own, as 
I heard about so very often around these parts. When it tosses mail, it goes 
where it's supposed to, and my downlinks get their mail as they're supposed to. 
Simple, no?

[Stewart Honsberger] [blackdeath@softhome.net] [http://blackdeath.brad-x.com/]

   "In /1984/, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain.
    In /Brave New World/, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure.
    In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley
    feared that what we love will ruin us." -- Neil Postman

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