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I thought NASA had it pretty well sussed with the computers on the shuttle (this might be apocryphal) - 3 systems running, if two agree then that's your answer. But then of course there was that business about metric and imperial units on the way to Mars... --- Danny Ayers http://www.isacat.net <- -----Original Message----- <- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...] <- Sent: 15 March 2001 21:38 <- To: John Cowan; Richard Tobin <- Cc: xml-dev@x... <- Subject: RE: ??? (was RE: A simple guy with a simple problem) <- <- <- So now the guy can go to lunch during the <- downtime and almost make it back. <- <- The trick is failover. The problem of <- attacking an unrealistic requirement <- with a simple solution is cost: what <- solution makes it realistic. Like many <- out of the box solutions, you have <- to redefine the requirement. No one <- system typically leaves you with one free <- lunch. Two might. <- <- Len <- http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard <- <- Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. <- Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h <- <- <- -----Original Message----- <- From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@m...] <- <- Richard Tobin scripsit: <- <- > 0.01% of a year is 3,000 seconds, not 30. <- <- Oops. Musta misread the % sign or something. <- <- Ignore previous flames. <- <- Unless somebody promises you 99.9999% reliability, in which case beware. <- <- ------------------------------------------------------------------ <- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS <- <http://www.oasis-open.org> <- <- The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ <- <- To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word <- "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l... <-
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