International Murphy's Day [was: Discussion point: Telco quality?]
Subject: Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 23:02:02 -0700 From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com> To: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com> CC: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list) References: <199810110142.SAA17274@condor.lvrmr.mhsc.com>
At 10:24 PM 10/10/98 -0400, David Lesher wrote:
Unnamed Administration sources reported that Roeland M.J. Meyer said:
Are there things that can happen to both which will really ruin your day? Yes.
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But such will never happen, so we can all rest easy....right?
Cascaded failures will do it. aka Murphy having a party.
----------------------------------------------- Big Party! International Murphy's Observance Day! January 1, 2000 Everyone's Invited -- Location to be Announced! ----------------------------------------------- or will it be International Murphy's Observance Year? recent y2k news: worldcom is far behind schedule: http://june.wcom.net/about_worldcom/year_2000_compliance/timeline.shtml congressional testimony from bellatlantic on what should (and isn't) being done: http://home.swbell.net/adheath/castellano.htm little progress from bellsouth: http://www.garynorth.com/y2k/detail_.cfm/2560 amazing performance from sbc! (sw bell & pacbell) http://www.garynorth.com/y2k/detail_.cfm/2506 the itu is sleepwalking: http://www.garynorth.com/y2k/detail_.cfm/2832 international communications (and banking) status: (hopeless) http://y2ktimebomb.com/Industry/Telecom/ihugo9840.htm
At 07:53 PM 10/12/98 -0400, cache22 wrote:
Subject: Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 23:02:02 -0700 From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com> To: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com> CC: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list) References: <199810110142.SAA17274@condor.lvrmr.mhsc.com>
At 10:24 PM 10/10/98 -0400, David Lesher wrote:
Unnamed Administration sources reported that Roeland M.J. Meyer said:
Are there things that can happen to both which will really ruin your day? Yes.
<snip>
But such will never happen, so we can all rest easy....right?
Cascaded failures will do it. aka Murphy having a party.
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Big Party! International Murphy's Observance Day!
January 1, 2000
Everyone's Invited -- Location to be Announced!
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or will it be International Murphy's Observance Year?
recent y2k news:
Murphy Day observations will occur at your local Federal office and State government agency locations.
amazing performance from sbc! (sw bell & pacbell)
I can't speak about the others, but I do know something about PacBell's efforts. Not all the efforts were written directly to the Y2K effort. Many changes and improvements were written against the HFC broadband project. There are a *ton* of programmers working on this. They also re-assesed their PC deployment and started the Standard Desktop effort. This is actually written off as normal capital upgrades. It's just that they are also Y2K compliant. This has been happening since before Aug95. Most of the servers are HP-UX and basic Unix is known not to have the Y2K problem. ELMOS and other databses are a problem that they've been working on for a long time now. Bill* is a complete re-write of the billing system by Andersen Consulting. Ergo, Gary North's tongue-in-cheek comments abourt PacBell are not really called for. They have been working on the problem diligently and are an example of how this type of problem should be handled, IMHO. The USG should be in as good a shape, but they're not. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com>rmeyer@mhsc.com Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky
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