>Sorry, this is totally OT, but STAY AWAY FROM THE MONKEY HOUSE!!!!!
It's been torn down. > >Just finished Hot Zone by Richard Preston (yes it is actually possible to >read a non-cisco book :-0) Hey...I've worked in Biosafety Level 3 labs. Networking one of them was rather reminiscent of the Andromeda Strain. This was in 1970 or so, so interconnect phone systems were still quite rare. My company was bought by Electronucleonics, which built a large cancer virus production facility in White Oak, Maryland. The computer center was in Bethesda, MD, and we communicated by dialup. Unfortunately, there had been some screwup of dates, and the telco lines were scheduled to be brought in the day AFTER the big open house (no viruses present yet). But we had quite a guest list, and HAD to demonstrate things including the virology data management system. The only line available was on a pay phone. Unfortunately, when I found this out, there was no one at the data center that could change the timeout for connections, which was around a minute. While I was able to connect the pay phone to a pair that took it to my modem, I was now faced with the problem that there were two airlocked pressure levels between the phone and the computer. Someone had to drop in a coin, dial, and yell to me at the first airlock. I'd leap into it, cycle as fast as possible, run across to the next airlock, cycle that, and hope I could log in before the nuclear demolition device (ooops...wrong movie)...the login timed out. It was the most aerobic demonstration I ever did, for a couple of hours. Helpful people would find the phone off the hook and replace it, or try to make their own calls. Eventually, I got someone to go to the computer center and change the timeout to about 5 minutes for the evening. > >Anyway, this is one of the best and scariest non-fiction books I have ever >read. It is the true story about how they suddenly had an Ebola virus >killing many monkeys everyday in a monkey house in Reston, Virginia - not >very far away from the Washington DC. Luckily, this particular Ebola strain, now known as Ebola Reston, doesn't seem to affect humans. > >I can apart from several Cisco books (see my RouterChief link below) highly >recommend the two books I have read so far by Richard Preston: > > The Hot Zone & Cobra Event > >if you need to get away from the Cisco books for a while. > >Hope y'all had a great christmas... > >Ole Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=30131&t=30121 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
