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"md" == Michael Dillon <[email protected]> writes: md> Perhaps there is a lesson in redundancy here. [...] md> The other was that they did not have alternate types of power md> source, i.e. they did not have generators on site but expected md> that 3 different utility power sources was adequate redundancy. This reminds me of a passage from Bruce Sterling's _The Hacker Crackdown_. Parked outside the back is a power-generation truck. The generator strikes me as rather anomalous. Don't they already have their own generators in this eight-story monster? Then the suspicion strikes me that NYNEX must have heard of the September 17 AT&T power-outage which crashed New York City. Belt-and-suspenders, this generator. Very telco. michael - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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