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Subject: Re: Dr. Robert Hyatt FTP

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:18:29 08/31/05

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On August 31, 2005 at 16:56:51, Peter Berger wrote:

>On August 31, 2005 at 12:05:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 31, 2005 at 07:02:47, Engin Üstün wrote:
>>
>>>i can't login to Dr. Hyatt's FTP under : ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/
>>>
>>>have anybody the same problem?
>>>
>>>or is there a new link what i am missed?
>>
>>
>>Problem is being worked on.  Waiting for a SCSI controller card to arrive.
>>First one arrived, but was itself broken and would not recognize any SCSI device
>>cabled to it...
>
>LOL.
>
>I have loosely followed this topic for what should be two years now, getting
>more and more amused. *Any* system administrator I can imagine should have lost
>his job by now. Can things be done *any* worse ?? (e.g. the system breakdown
>without any reasonable backup as a starter) Yearly uptime for this
>system/service should be clearly below 50% by now, permanent loss of data is
>obviously common.

What can I say?  Up until last year, I was the faculty member responsible for
our lab facilities.  We hired a new chair, who does things differently.  And
while somethings are better than before, some are worse.



>
>Is this some spare time activity and otherwise data is safe and systems are up
>and running, or is this business as usual at UAB ?


It hasn't been the norm, but it has definitely gotten far worse...


>
>I am confident that whoever is the boss of this department, doesn't read here,
>so it should be safe to ask. It is not even off-topic, as it is soo regular a
>topic at this board ;)
>
>Peter


right.  :)





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