Michael: This is off topic.
For being a God fearing man you are pretty negative. Cheer up lado! As an atheist I have to say: live and be happy already! and..who cares anyway? So what if it's down...do some studying. Get a coffee.. Work on your goals. /shrug Moving along. :D Aaron aa...@kalosaurusrex:~$ Discere docendo - To learn through teaching. Libera Te Tutemet - You, free yourself. On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 22:26, Michael Robinson <[email protected]>wrote: > > I've had to have this discussion with people who've never managed, > > administered or troubleshot an enterprise network. This seems like this > is > > the case with you Michael. It is not a complete apples to apples > comparison > > but the ideas still work. Automobiles have been around for some 100 > years, > > there have been plenty of advancements and innovations, yet they still > > require regular maintenance in order to run efficiently and not break > down. > > If you apply your logic to autos, they should never break down and never > > require any upkeep whatsoever and they should never have any type of > recalls > > or something found after they are brought to market that was missed > during > > the engineering and prototyping phase. In reality, it just doesn't work > like > > that. > > > > Maybe you have an axe to grind with some of the professors, so be it, but > > that shouldn't become a blanket judgement about the intelligence of the > IT > > staff at PSU. > > > > Drew- > > I never said that servers never break down. Misdesign though > which leads to an outage that leads to another service outage > to fix the problem suggests a competence problem. Automobiles > don't break down as often as they did say 100 years ago. The > reliability is much better. A qualified electrician should be > able to design the electrical system for a building so that > servers can be set up properly. Furthermore, when you are > serving 1000s of people you need to think about or have > secondary facilities. With all the construction going on at > PSU, there should be a secondary site for network services. > As far as an ax to grind, if I were unprofessional and had an > ax to grind I'd put their names in my posts. Yes I have > noticed that certain professors at PSU probably shouldn't > be there. Insofar as this affects the computer science program, > it is indirectly a Linux issue. Linux is an operating system > that is maintained by people who understand computers. If > PSU isn't turning out educated engineers, that is not good for > Linux. This problem with the design of the electrical system > should have been spotted and addressed a long time ago. > > Concerning judgements, I have to make judgements because the > competence or lack thereof of the IT staff at PSU affects me. > I am in a computer intensive major. If I were an English > major, maybe I would not care so much. > > Why are all of PSU's network services including access to the > Linux lab going to be affected? Why is this outage going to > occur now instead of 4 months ago in the summer when most > students were gone? I have some real difficulty understanding > the planning. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
