Rofl Matt, I was recently laid off from my job for 'economic' reasons, what you say is deadly accurate. Bravo! :)
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Matthew Petach <mpet...@netflight.com>wrote: > On 4/13/09, George William Herbert <gherb...@retro.com> wrote: > > Matthew Petach wrote: > > >> George William Herbert <gherb...@retro.com> wrote: > > >> Matthew Petach writes: > > [much material snipped in the interests of saving precious electron > resources...] > > > This was all in one geographical area. Diversity out of area will get > > you around single points like that, if you know the overall topology > > of the fiber networks around the US and chose locations carefully. > > > > But even that won't protect you against common mode vendor hardware > > failures, or a largescale BGP outage, or the routing chaos that comes > > with a very serious regional net outage (exchange points, major > > undersea cable cuts, etc).... > > > > There may be 4 or 5 nines, but the 1 at the end has your name on it. > > Ultimately, I think a .sig line I saw years back summed it up very > succinctly: > > "Earth is a single point of failure." > > Below that, you're right, we're all just quibbling about which digits to > put > to the right of the decimal point. If the entire west coast of the US > drops > into the ocean, yes, having my data backed up on different continents > will help; but I'll be swimming with the sharks at that point, and won't > really be able to care much, so the extent of my disaster planning > tends to peter out around the point where entire states disappear, > and most definitely doesn't even wander into the realm of entire continents > getting cut off, or the planet getting incinerated in a massive solar > flare. > > Fundamentally, though, I think it's actually good we have outages > periodically; they help keep us employed. When networks run too > smoothly, management tends to look upon us as unnecessary > overhead that can be trimmed back during the next round of > layoffs. The more they realize we're the only bulwark against > the impending forces of chaos you mentioned above, the less > likely they are to trim us off the payroll. > > Matt > > Note--tongue was firmly planted in cheek; no slight was intended > against those who may have lost jobs recently; post was intended > for humourous consumption only; any resemblence to useful > content was purely coincidental and not condoned by any present > or past employer. Repeated exposure may be habit forming. Do > not read while operating heavy machinery. > > -- Respectfully, Chris Hart George Carlin<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_carlin.html> - "Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stu...
