Re: Hating broken mailers!

2008-07-06 Thread Steffan Davies
Zach White wrote at 08:06 on 2008-07-05: > On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Joshua Juran wrote: > > It's worse than that. X11's selection buffer breaks a whole lot stuff > if you, you know, actually use it and don't treat it like the vestigal > feature it is. > > A common behavior that this mec

Re: krashing krap

2008-03-25 Thread Steffan Davies
Abigail wrote at 15:18 on 2008-03-25: > > If you are revering to "high availability clusters" (such as HP Service > guard, SUN Cluster, or Veritas Cluster), the answer is no. The cluster > itself remains up, but if a node goes down, and a service is running on > such a node, the service "switches

Re: krashing krap

2008-03-25 Thread Steffan Davies
Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote at 08:06 on 2008-03-25: > Indeed. I've seen UNIX servers with 1+ year uptime, but sooner or later > either a disk crash or a need to patch something urgent brings them down > either by accident or by necessity. VMS takes uptime rather seriously. > (I don't know for certa

Re: krashing krap

2008-03-25 Thread Steffan Davies
Joshua Juran wrote at 00:53 on 2008-03-25: > It's time we realized that Web applications are not hypertext > documents, and actually created a system which was *designed* to > deliver them. As long as we're forcing users to install extra > software anyway, why bottleneck everything through