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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 09:04:34 -0600
From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, boyd, rounin wrote:

> every few months one chunk of [thin] coax would go
> bad to one office (the other 7 were fine).
>
> once found, the standard protocol, when dealing with
> broken h/w, was employed:
>
>    if it's broken, break it
>
> this avoids some other poor sap from re-using it.

funny how some things rarely change -- today we had a bloke from a hardware
vendor do a software upgrade of one of our optical switches which was
misbehaving.  at some point after the update we saw that two of the machines
were transferring at a much lower speed than the others.

some mucking around later the guy took an optical cable out and asked

     'got a pair of scissors?'

with scissors supplied he proceeded cutting the cable in half:

     'keeps it from being accidentaly reused' he said. 'we've had that happen
     before'

or, as shirley bassey put it best:

"that it's all just a little bit of history repeating"


andrey