Clustering for databases

[Brian Kelsay]

Jason Clinton wrote:

> In the musings department: I wonder if Linux has had anything to do with 
> my loss of patience? Before Linux, I just accepted that sometimes 
> computers don't work. Now, I see greedy, incompetent corporations behind 
> every bug in software on a Windows system -- I really can't stand to 
> work on the system once I start thinking like that. Especially if the 
> bug costs me hours and hours of frustration.

I used to hate viruses and worms.  In reality I still do, but it gives 
me a job.  It takes a detailed person (like me) to be able to follow the 
bug and remove it from every little corner it hides in.  And usually 
when you remove it you get a chance to lock down the user a little more, 
fix things that have been neglected (load the latest svc pack and defrag 
the PC).  You get an opportunity to get one-on-one with the user and 
explain why they shouldn't trust attachments or HTML mail.  Why they 
shouldn't forward jokes and junk.  That they should write down error 
messages and then let you look at it, not read the entire thing to you 
over the phone pronouncing each letter and number in the blue-screen 
msg.  Hopefully they don't poke and prod a dying machine before they 
call or keep screwing w/ it after you are notified, so that the PC is so 
dead it won't even start up and you can't save their "critical" files.

Brian
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I refrained from telling him that I doubted they could find their ass 
with an electronic ass finder.