Re: OpenBSD and FS-Support (compiling kernel without support..)

["Rod.. Whitworth" <listen@witworx.com>]

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 12:28:39 +0200, Hans Insulander wrote:

>Right, like that hit a lot of people. Only a small part of southern
>Sweden was hit. I didn't even hear about it until a few days later.
>
>A friend of mine works at a supercomputer center. He's had three power
>outages at work, during the last few years. Which is *very* much too often
>in this part of the world.
>
>During the same period, the UPS has caused unexpected downtime five times.
>
>And these guys spend hundreds of thousands euros on their UPS.
>

So what? I shouldn't have a UPS? Maybe they bought crap UPS? I have
seen expensive crap and moderately priced reliable units.

A sister company to the one I worked for from 1975 to 1992 built power
conditioning equipment and inverters. To them a UPS was an inverter
with its batteries charged by an on-line charger and maybe a stand-by
diesel generator. They built units for Australian diplomatic services
in some of the least reliably powered cities in the world.

Zero failures during the life of that company whilst I was in the
associated company. Failure to maintain the batteries and run routine
tests is a way to find out the human failures......

It is a bit like systems reliability in any sphere - computers,
intelligence, security, power supply.

Oh, and good gear is a prime requisite with price being no measure of
goodness.

Both cases are statistically insignificant small samples.

/R/


>From the land "down under": Australia.
Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?

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