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Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)

  • From: Jim Mercer
  • Date: Wed Feb 09 04:07:04 2000 
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:02:34AM -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> No one trusts the operation
> of a $1.5M Sun e6500 by a group of rookies. They can probably afford to hire
> the best SA's that they can find and no one running equipment behind
> anything larger than a T1 can afford to hire the ignorant. Not at the prices
> charged for that size of a pipe.

i beg to differ.

i've seen a large number of .com's which have mega gear, and minor-league SA's.

the problem is that alot of .com's seem to think that the vendor will be able
to solve their serious problems, or that they can just hire some "certified"
SA's to do the job.

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