29 Sep
2014
29 Sep
'14
3:02 p.m.
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 13:22:57 -0400, Jay Ashworth said:
"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. :-)
"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." -- Leslie Lamport, 1987. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/distributed-syste...