On September 28, 2014 at 13:22 jra@baylink.com (Jay Ashworth) wrote:
"The Internet is the only endeavour of man in which a single-character typographical error in a file on a computer on the other side of the planet *which you do not even know exists* can take your entire business off line for the better part of a day."
-- Someone, in the wake of the (I think) Turkish YouTube BGP hijacking; damn if I remember who. I might be embellishing. :-)
Oh I dunno. I know someone who accidentally brought down the entire Manhattan phone system (monopoly, pre-mobile days) installing a carefully tested patch with a hot failover running (oh well, the best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley.) Sure, that was just Manhattan, and of course everyone on the other side of those connections. -- -Barry Shein The World | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*