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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