We have the occasional network issue from Perth to Port Hedland (both in Western Australia, with Port Hedland being a couple of thousand km's north of Perth).
When management phone up, I always reply with: "Have you looked at a map? See how far north Port Hedland is...that's all uphill you know!" Never fails to amaze me how many will nod in agreement... Cheers Connor --- Wolfgang Breitling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My explanation for that would be that it is all > driven by beans. If manager > learns that a resource is "underutilized" he/she > immediately starts to plan > to switch it for a smaller (i.e. cheaper) resource. > Unless you can express > performance in terms of beans it doesn't mean beans > (so to speak) to them. > > At 02:19 PM 1/12/2004, you wrote: > >P.S. whilst the above is fictitious they do care > about %utilisation of > >bandwidth but not response time from remote sites, > God that irritates me. > > > >Author: Niall Litchfield > > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Wolfgang Breitling > Oracle7, 8, 8i, 9i OCP DBA > Centrex Consulting Corporation > http://www.centrexcc.com > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: > http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Wolfgang Breitling > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 > http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web > hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an > E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of > 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB > ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed > from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information > (like subscribing). ===== Connor McDonald web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk web: http://www.oaktable.net email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "GIVE a man a fish and he will eat for a day. But TEACH him how to fish, and...he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day" ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: =?iso-8859-1?q?Connor=20McDonald?= INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
