[tech] flying (Wavelan router)

Jean-Paul Blaquiere japester at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Thu Jun 28 09:25:54 WST 2001


> On Jun 28, Leighton Haynes illuminated with a virtual pen  :

> Imagine, if you will, a situation where everyone wants to build a little
> hill of sand. You work night and day, and finally get an adequate hill of
> sand. Happy with your efforts, you rest for the night. In the morning, you
> come back to find that someone decided to knock down your hill of sand,
> and start from scratch. Unfortunately, the new hill of sand isn't as large
> as the old one. 
> 
and then some bugger comes along and fills the sand with beer, or is that
another paradigm I'm thinking of....

> I'm not saying nobody touch the machines again. I'm saying that you 
> shouldn't do things without a reason, that you should make every 
> attempt to _not_ remove functionality from the UCC network, that you
> should make people aware of what you're going to do, preferably before
> doing it. Maybe you're just too detached from reality to realise this 
> 
For one, flying is a *test* machine that is still being finalised.  In
other words, don't expect it to be up all the time.  Nick has also been
very pro-active (wonderful catch word) about getting the whole wavelan
network in place and working.  Have I seen you around doing any
constructive work towards it Leighton?  First stone remember ...
I agree with not playing with services that other people rely on for
playing's sake, but remember UCC does not guarantee a service of any kind,
we are here to experiment and learn about {hard,soft,firm}ware  and we of
course, never intend to leave equipment in a broken state.  *grin*


/jp...
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