Would that my life were so downside-free.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Buffistas Building a Better Board
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
amych - Jul 30, 2003 8:57:30 am PDT #4385 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Elena - Jul 30, 2003 8:58:39 am PDT #4386 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
Yeah, I'm looking hard to find a downside.
More time on the fast new board, less time for real life?
Okay, yeah, I'm grasping.
DXMachina - Jul 30, 2003 9:00:47 am PDT #4387 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Sounds good to me.
What are we missing?
Typo Boy - Jul 30, 2003 9:01:37 am PDT #4388 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Kristen - it does not sound bad to me.
I have my doubts on the "no down time" thing. In this business you should never *promise* "no down time". Probably there will be no down time. but there alwys is some risk. What it sounds like they can promise is no data loss.
I totally think it worth the small risk of down time. But as someone who has been in this business a long time, avoid this kind of promise.
Rule of thumb:
Promise to get it done in three weeks. Finish in four. You are a zero. Promisie to get itdone in six weeks. Finish in five. You are a hero.
Elena - Jul 30, 2003 9:09:34 am PDT #4389 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
Ah, Gar, the Scotty Rule.
Fred Pete - Jul 30, 2003 9:14:40 am PDT #4390 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Probably there will be no down time. but there alwys is some risk.
And then there's WX....
Typo Boy - Jul 30, 2003 9:20:00 am PDT #4391 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
WX was a much more dangerous case. They used the old servers as part of the new configuration. So they reached a point where they could not simply turn off the new setup, and boot-up the old. In this case if something really horrible goes wrong, they can shut off the new servers, change the ip address on the old servers back to what they were and bring up the old servers as though nothing has happened. So, you know, week and month long down time really not likely.
Fred Pete - Jul 30, 2003 9:24:00 am PDT #4392 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Ah. As one of the tech-impaired, all I really knew was, WX was supposed to be down for Memorial Day weekend only. And still isn't fully back up.
Which fits in with your comment about lowering expectations.
Kristen - Jul 30, 2003 9:41:59 am PDT #4393 of 10000
Good point on the zero downtime. I think my eye sort of skipped over that part since I don't believe in zero downtime. Much like Santa Claus.
Noumenon - Jul 30, 2003 9:42:24 am PDT #4394 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
DX, where are we with the Natter archiving? Can I delete any more of them yet?
Maybe you could make me a temporary Stompy and I could help with taking out the long links.