On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 06:55, Joe Pruett <j...@clean.q7.com> wrote: > i have nothing to do with psu, but have been part of a university > computing staff. i think you are overestimating the resources available > to a university computing group.
hah, to say the least. that was my past (and hopefully) future life (at a different university), and though the CS department whom i worked for kept downtime to a minimum (aside from a flood and a rat literally bridging a 100kV circuit and blowing up the box that brought the building electricity), we still had scheduled outages. things like migrating home directories to a new fileserver requires some time when 1000 users aren't logged in and modifying files. similarly infrastructure work (electricity, plumbing--how do you think the machine room cooler works? & what happens when it needs maintenance?) ohsu is an unfair comparison because > they are a hospital and therefore have some compliance requirements > (hipaa) that allow them to invest in more sophisticated systems. haha, "allow". force! but also, mission critical in a hospital is life and death. > when i was involved (more than 20 years ago), it was considered completely > normal to have the computer system down for the entire week between xmas > and new years. nowadays i'm sure that isn't common anymore, but a partial > day outage seems pretty mild in comparison. agreed. i mean, our e-commerce sites have less downtime, but they also have way fewer moving parts than a 25k+ user network, and only 3 actual users. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
