[378] in Humor
HUMOR: ... will surely be flogged from your body
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 27 15:16:20 1994
From: abennett@MIT.EDU
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 15:01:36 EDT
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 19:36:23 -0600
From: matossian@aries.colorado.edu (Espacionaute Spiff domine!)
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From: brian@nothing.ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor)
In article <2t86sf$ebf@citecub.citec.qld.gov.au>
sgcccdc@citecub.citec.qld.gov.au (Colin Campbell) writes:
>Matthew SAMS (maclean@cs.mcgill.ca) wrote:
>: Things are looking pretty grim especially since we don't really have
>: money for options 2 or 3.
>
>Go to management and say,
>
> "You are discussing disaster recovery. You either have the
> money for disaster recovery or you are not really interested
> in disaster recovery. Simple as that."
"Well, what we are discussing is preadaptive data archive maintenance."
"Yeah, disaster recovery."
"Oh, no, `disaster recovery' is completely unscientific, a collection
of poorly explained tricks. I went to a seminar last week in the
Caribbean on preadaptive data archive maintenance, and I have notes
proving that with the money we once allocated for your primitive
`disaster recovery' we can harden our client-oriented batch-specific
data processing service endeavors against any eventuality short of a
supernova."
"Okay, how?"
"Here are the notes."
(The system administrator pages through fifteen pages of
introduction.) "`Step one. Identify needs.' Okay. We need off-site
storage so we're not hosed in the event of fire."
"That is not an option. Preadaptive data archive maintenance is an
entirely internal matter."
"Then if we have a fire all our data goes."
"Clearly you have not set up our redundant blocking tape branch
correctly."
"Our what?"
"I attended a seminar in Bangkok on that very topic six months ago."
"Huh? What's a redundant blocking tape branch?"
"I don't recall. I have the notes around here somewhere. Really, I
don't see why I should have to do your job for you. Anyway, once you
set that up, we won't need off-site storage, which is a security risk
anyway."
"Look. If a terrorist blows up the building, everything in it is
lost, right?"
"Look, you technological elitist, our company did not send me to
Southeast Asia for three weeks with a packet of pedosodomy vouchers on
a whim. The technology exists. Make use of it."
"Somebody lied to you. There is no such technology."
"Just because you have eight years of experience as a full-time system
administrator, don't think you can bully *me.* I am perfectly capable
of determining which technologies are viable and which are not. Back
to your cube, maggot. Report at dawn to the Performance Review board
and bring a spare shirt, as the one you are wearing now will surely be
flogged from your body."
