[Nottingham] From USENET: [All Of Our Systems Are Down]

[Martin]

The Lost Packet wrote:
> Spotted this just now, I think it says it all for the state of this 
> country and one of the most important underlying causes...

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> I hear this a lot these days, in fact I hear it with alarming frequency:
> 
>     "All of our systems are down"

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> So what /are/ these "systems", and why are they "down"?
> 
> They are CRM and PBAX "systems" running on commodity PCs...

And likely without redundancy or any immediate form of backup, all
overloaded, and "administered" by deliberately deskilled anonymous
remote "1st-line" staff.

It might just be that a certain OS has been very heavily marketed on
supposedly being so simple to use that even monkeys can run a server farm...


So... On that note...

How many "Engineers" and how many visits does it take to have one fibre
bundle and one coaxial cable installed into a building?

(That includes two modems and one Cisco router.)

Oh, and all just for a commonplace 'default' install.

Guesses?

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Lomas
martin at ml1.co.uk
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