Re: RFC - Survey (not sales!)

Posted in 2000

Brett Geer — Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:37:39 +0200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Laugh not, we looked at moving some of our hot tables into a ram drive like this... ups backup was right up there. then we saw the $$$ brett Hannes Visagie wrote: > > Hope they have UPS or battery back up for all that disk cache. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brett Geer [mailto:brett@brabys.co.za] > Sent: Wednesday, 20 December, 2000 3:08 PM > To: Obnoxio The Clown > Cc: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: RFC - Survey (not sales!) > > > I only run NT on my laptop, and I'm signed up to a campaign in the company > > to allow field staff to run Linux and VMWare. > > > > 10 is really S80/V-class/E10K/O2000 territory. I'd rate this place about a > > 7. > > I think we'll add another level (11) ... showoff level. > > We've seen the people here with > 8 processors, more gb of ram than > the rest of us have disk space. Disk cache hardware with more ram on it > than my machine has for the system. > > Forget getting a life, I need a new job > > brett > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Brett's 10th law of UNIX administration... > rm is forever > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Brett Geer - UNIX Admin/Analyst/Programmer - Intratex Holdings. > Tel. +27 31 717 4000 Direct. +27 31 717 4146 > Fax. +27 31 717 4001 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The little voices are talking to me again, telling me to reach > for a keyboard and type rm -rf /* > last week they had me rm -rf `echo $MANPATH | sed 's/:/ /g'` > now I fear I have no answers > ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett's 10th law of UNIX administration... rm is forever ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett Geer - UNIX Admin/Analyst/Programmer - Intratex Holdings. Tel. +27 31 717 4000 Direct. +27 31 717 4146 Fax. +27 31 717 4001 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The little voices are talking to me again, telling me to reach for a keyboard and type rm -rf /* last week they had me rm -rf `echo $MANPATH | sed 's/:/ /g'` now I fear I have no answers -----------------------------------------------------------------