[uClibc] Unscheduled Downtime
Glenn R Heard Jr
gheard at zoominternet.net
Sun Jul 25 03:48:44 UTC 2004
One must remember... some of the most revolutionary inventions came out of
people's garages.
Glenn Heard gheard at zoominternet.net
Software Engineer gheard at altronicinc.com
Altronic Inc. www.altronicinc.com
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Landley" <rob at landley.net>
To: "Carl Miller" <chaz at energoncube.net>; <uclibc at uclibc.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [uClibc] Unscheduled Downtime
> On Thursday 22 July 2004 03:30, Carl Miller wrote:
> > > > I woke up this afternoon (after working all night on a problem
> > > > that turned up with uClibc on mips) and found one of my precious
> > > > children (probably Jess) had unlocked my office looking for
> > > > something, then one of my younger children then discovered the
> > > > power switch on the server under my desk. The server that powers
> > > > uclibc.org, busybox.net, codepoet.org, etc....
> > >
> > > There's a "priceless" commercial in here somewhere, I just know it.
> >
> > Second install of Linux: $0.
> > Second install of Apache: $0.
> > Install of Balance for hot-standby failover: $0.
> > Knowing the site stays up when your child
> > finds the power switch on one server: Priceless.
> >
> > Some computer problems can't be solved by code. For everything
> > else, there's open source.
>
> Actually, I'm more impressed that so many large corporations (such as
Linksys,
> which is now Cisco) have product lines that depend on software distributed
> from a computer in a residential basement in Utah.
>
> There's something deeply satisfying about this.
>
> Rob
>
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