View From the Bushes

When the smoke cleared on yesterday's problems, I ended up staying until just after 1 AM, and the problem still wasn't fixed. At around 6 am this morning, my youngest started screaming and such was my curiousity about whether the problem had been solved that I couldn't get back to sleep. Checking my e-mail from home, I discovered that it still had not been resolved. So I quickly showered and headed back in to work. Fortunately, it didn't take too much longer; by 8:30 the problem had been identified and though there was still several hours of clean-up left, the worst was behind us.

As it turns out, one of the companies we work with had put a router on our network. And whether due to catasprophic failure (highly unlikely) or direct human error, it had been configured in such a way as to try to assume the role of gateway for the entire network. As you may imagine, this caused some problems. With two machines competing for the position, all hell broke loose. Three of the guys I work with were here the whole night. By noon today when they were finally allowed to leave, they were pretty punchy.

As far as links, Boortz had a great link to an article written by an Israeli settler. I know a few of my readers also read Boortz, but if you don't or if you didn't follow the link, you should -- it's an excellent article, about a criminally mis-represented segment of the world's population.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross