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RE: Exodus Down
From: "Deepak Jain" <deepak () ai net>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 13:06:10 -0400
Was technology really supposed to change every aspect of the way we live in such a short period of time, when in most cases what was driving acceptance was just expenditure of money and NOT actual paradigm-shifting technology? I have a hard time believing any geeks voluntarily get up on a Sunday AM, so I am assuming you/they were up all night. Guns in your operations center.... hmmm. brings new meaning to the term "access terminated" eh? Deepak Jain -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of mike harrison Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 11:19 AM To: Deepak Jain Cc: Randy Bush; nanog () merit edu Subject: RE: Exodus Down
Whoever stopped investing in guns? [oops, did I say that outloud?]
Funny, I was looking at a stainless Mini-14 .223 this morning and thinking $499 is a good price. (Gun Show's are great on Sunday AM) Yes, our NOC has a large well equipped gun safe in it, it's also handy for backup tapes/CD's and expensive licensed software. But the most important part of this thread that was painfully obvious is our increasing addiction, if not outright dependence upon certain websites sponsored by well meaning companies (corporate sponsers) that may not be able to continue this financial support. Our business has a large open source centric software development angle, and it has actually impacted the way we do business, even over a weekend. It's Sunday AM, and there is a small team of geeks working on projects, at least CPAN, Sourceforge and other sites are up. As for routers being repossessed, we are spending this weekend setting up servers for some new clients that can not get into some other colo facilities because the landlord padlocked the doors to the NOC they were renting space/bandwidth from. Dispite all of the technical expertise available, many of these companies are suffering from financial realities that technology can not solve.
Current thread:
- Re: Exodus Down, (continued)
- Re: Exodus Down Omachonu Ogali (Jun 23)
- Re: Exodus Down Joshua Goodall (Jun 23)
- Re: Exodus Down Gordon Ewasiuk (Jun 23)
- Re: Exodus Down Omachonu Ogali (Jun 23)
- Re: Exodus Down Richard A. Steenbergen (Jun 23)
- Re: Exodus Down Dee McKinney (Jun 23)
- Re: Exodus Down Rich Fulton (Jun 23)
- Re: Exodus Down Jim Popovitch (Jun 23)
- Re: Exodus Down Randy Bush (Jun 23)
- RE: Exodus Down Deepak Jain (Jun 23)
- RE: Exodus Down mike harrison (Jun 24)
- RE: Exodus Down Deepak Jain (Jun 24)
- Re: Exodus Down Sehmel, William C. (Jun 24)
- OSDN network back up Re: Exodus Down Sehmel, William C. (Jun 24)
- Re: Exodus Down Dee McKinney (Jun 23)
- OT: Guns (was RE: Exodus Down) Joe Shaw (Jun 24)
- RE: Exodus Down Christian Nielsen (Jun 25)
- RE: Exodus Down mike harrison (Jun 25)
- RE: Exodus Down Jason Lewis (Jun 25)
- RE: Exodus Down Matt Levine (Jun 25)
- RE: Exodus Down Deepak Jain (Jun 25)
- RE: Exodus Down Bill Woodcock (Jun 25)
- RE: Exodus Down Alex Rubenstein (Jun 25)