Re: [WinMac] Re: Chooser Troubles
John C. Welch(jwelch[at]aer.com)
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 12:28:39 -0500
I find myself in the position of bending my opinion of the current topic
to match Mr. Shinozaki's Obviously, there are sever operational
consequences to placing one's computer servers, and one, in the
undesirable position of needing extensive technical support services on
the penultimate day of the week, (using Sunday as the week's beginning),
thereby having to face paying weekend support charges if one's support
contract disallows technical assistance during the weekend. I find that
by beginning an upgrade or overhaul process at the dawn of the week, I
am afforded the maximum potential availability of technical assistance
from various vendors.
There, was that "not lowest common denominator" enough?
It's unclear, but definitely exercises the (*&$#%()*&%()*@)&()*&^%())(! language.
for the rest of us...
Yuji's got a good point. Starting on friday can leave you screwed for
tech support. Monday is more inconvenient, but logistically more wise
john
Yuji Shinozaki wrote:
>
> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Daniel L. Schwartz wrote:
>
> > Not so fast there, John! SP4 can cause troubles if applied willy-nilly on
> > a production server... I usually deploy it on a Friday afternoon, in case
> > there is trouble.
>
> Interesting philosophy. I usually deploy new things during the
> afternoon/evening early in the week, so that:
>
> 1) I know I will be there the next morning if/when problems occur.
> 2) that I can verify everything is running well BEFORE the
> weekend.
>
> Then again, I am in an academic department where people are tolerant of
> brief downtimes during the week, but tend to work over the evenings and
> weekends and are not tolerant of problems that need to wait over the
> weekend. In an 8-to-5 weekday environment, the rules are different...
>
> [ off topic I know... maybe I should have thrown in a few obscenities. ]
>
> yuji
> ----
> Yuji Shinozaki Systems Administrator
> yuji@physics.unc.edu Dept of Physics and Astronomy
> http://www.physics.unc.edu Univ. of North Carolina - CH
> (919)962-7214 (voice) CB 3255 Philips Hall
> (919)962-0480 (fax) Chapel Hill, NC 27599
>
> * Windows-MacOS Cooperation List *
* Windows-MacOS Cooperation List *
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b2
on Wed Mar 31 1999 - 09:33:33 PST
|
|