classiccmp outage

From: Mike Shaw <mike_at_shawnuff.net>
Date: Sat Jan 10 23:13:42 2004

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:01:12 -0800 Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
wrote:
>...and that is exactly why. The worst feeling in the world is when
>it's
>late, you're tired, there's no place comfortable to sit and you've
>been
>standing for hours, you want to go home, and you have no idea why
>the
>system isn't working. Screw that.

The thing I could never get management to understand is that a) 3am means
that if something goes wrong later on in the production morning, you've
got a bunch of zombies trying to do complex troubleshooting, and b) at
3am with absolutely nothing happening, it's pretty hard to tell if something's
going to work right under a load.

-Mike
Received on Sat Jan 10 2004 - 23:13:42 GMT