RE: I had to say it because I was afraid no one else would

["Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>]

Ok, a bridge sounds good. Are we talking cantilever, arch, suspension,
truss, or dental?

Leonard

-----Original Message-----
From: John Posada [mailto:jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 9:21 AM
To: Leonard C. Porrello
Cc: McLauchlan, Kevin; Blount, Patricia A; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: I had to say it because I was afraid no one else would

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Leonard C. Porrello
<Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- soleratec -dot- com> wrote:
> Because "other-than-normal stoppage" is an inevitability for most
(all?)
> systems, I expect that my very expensive, new and shiny system will
> recover itself gracefully even in the case of other than normal
> stoppage. This is behavior I would consider "normal". And while I

Wanna bridge?

This isn't a matter of shiny brand new hardware. It's a matter of old,
dull, spaghetti code software. I've never met a piece of hardware that
without software, ever did anything, graceful or otherwise.

> understand that this is not the case for many systems, I would suggest
> that in this day and age graceful should be normal.

Live in whatever world you want. In my world of computers, you can
define whatever methods of shutdown you want. Software often has other
ideas.

-- 
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
NYMetro STC President

Looking for the next gig.
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