Re: tunnel vs open a hole

[George Capehart <capegeo () opengroup org>]

On Thursday 10 April 2003 03:48 pm, Paul Robertson wrote:
> My "extremely poorly in crash tests" SUV did over $1500 in damage to
> the "well-qualified in crash tests" car that hit me last year[1]. 
> The cover to my bumper was scraped in one place, and ideally I'd
> spend $100 fixing all the pretty plastic and making the bumper line
> up a little straighter.  It hasn't rolled over yet either.
>
> That, I think is the base issue- just because it's *possible* to
> operate a well-run and well maintained server doesn't make that the
> default, and because some good portion of folks can do it, there's no
> real pressure to make servers that don't fall over the default
> because some "safty loons" are complaining that it might roll over.

There are many people whose SUVs haven't rolled over on them because 
they are good, careful and prudent drivers who drive defensively and 
don't take chances.  Then there is the "It'll Never Happen to Me" group 
whose members may at some level, be cognitively aware of the 
possibility, but whose driving behavior is not impacted by the data.  
They're just plain lucky that it hasn't happened to them yet.  They 
have their counterparts in the network/system administration world.  
This just lessens the pressure to make servers that don't fall over . . 
.

> In this region (Washington, D.C. area) it's amusing to watch the
> first snow's SUV victims who've never driven on anything other than
> dry pavement come to the realization that the laws of physics still
> apply, and just because you *can* get up to 70MPH easily doesn't mean
> you can get back down to a stop, or negotiate a turn just as easily.

See the previous paragraph . . . :-)

/g
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George Capehart

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