On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
<tongue in cheek>
<sly question>My question is this .... what failed? The internet or your
node on the internet? </sly question>
If the answer is your node on the internet then what are you doing to
continue to allow your node to be a productive part of the internet and
allow arpnet like ability to failover?
</ tongue in cheek>
The economic system that encourages service providers to compete in a
manner detrimental to their customers.
Personally I believe the worst effect of the Cold War was to make people
believe that there are only two economic systems imaginable, Stalinism and
Capitalism.
but it seems that both the ISP's and telecom are putting an awful lot of
eggs going into an awfully small number of baskets!
What happens if a landslip closes the road/rail system just this side of
Kaikoura?
Partly our problem is we live on a long thin mountainous pimple on the
great rounded bum of the earth.
Not exactly a great nexus of connectivity.
But then I really do love the Alps and the sea, so I'm not
complaining.
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Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law.
"Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong later."
From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced.
