On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:31:00AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> Worse, you could have a NetApp, where the message would be buried
> about 2/3 of the way down between a complete dump of the system
> configuration, a blog about knitting that's been hijacked by Sicilian
> CRT-cleaning-cloth spammers, and an ASCII picture of a leopard. Or at
> least things that are about as useful. But at least with NetApp by the
> time you noticed an important message you'd have gotten a call from
> the front desk asking if you were expecting a package with the
> replacement part in it. AND it would miraculously be the right
> replacement part.
Only if manglement has paid for the support contract. Which they might
do for the first year, but after that "why are we spending this money,
we never get anything for it and everything still works". Then a month
later point Netapp's beancounting computer phones home to your filer and
tells it to fail, and it's all your fault.
--
David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information
Vegetarian: n: a person who, due to malnutrition caused by
poor lifestyle choices, is eight times more likely to
catch TB than a normal person
