[geeks] DST hell
    Dan Duncan 
    danduncan at gmail.com
       
    Sun Mar 11 22:04:27 CDT 2007
    
    
  
On 3/11/07, Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net> wrote:
> On Mar 11, 2007, at 11:53 AM, Dan Duncan wrote:
> > worked for them.  "Well, it works pretty good except for 1 or 2 times
> > out of 10."   So, basically, a 10-20% failure rate was apparently ok.
> >
> > Oh, one more detail:  Parent company operates nuclear power plants.
> >
>
> Well, they probably did backups more often than necessary - it's a
> "safety factor" :-)
The backups were nightly.
I kept waiting to hear "We hardly ever have a meltdown except for 1 or
2 times out of 10."
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Dan Duncan
    
    
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