From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 23 2:43:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EEF714FD7 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 02:43:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: (qmail 30153 invoked from network); 23 Jul 1999 09:43:13 -0000 Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.42) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 23 Jul 1999 09:43:13 -0000 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 04:43:13 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com To: Dominic Mitchell Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Francisco Reyes , FreeBSd Chat list Subject: Re: Will Ebay ever learn? In-Reply-To: <19990723095358.C98688@palmerharvey.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > Large central points of failure tend to do just that, fail. > > Which is quite amsuing, because the entire starfire (Sun E10K) design is > designed around *not* having single points of failure. > Being able to replace all sorts of hardware with the machine up doesn't do you much good when the sprinkler head directly overhead goes off. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message