Is it really so early

It's been one of those days. Busy as hell. It's only just made it to 10 o'clock, and it feels like I've been at it all day.

I've come in with a long list of things that need fixing. And another list of things that _urgently_ need fixing. And another list of stuff that people really want me to sort, but probably isn't going to because of the other two lists.

And to top it all, I've broken the handle off my coffee much.

Sigh.

Time to go home yet?

Chain Letters

I hate chain letters.
The are evil.
I've just had one from someone, who's forwarded it to everyone in the company.
About a little girl in phuket who can't remember anything, and has lost her parents, with a photo attachment

I felt the need to reply:

"Tragic though it is, chain letters really don't help matters much. After all, this little girl has already been re-united with her family.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/lostgirl.asp

Then if you take a 60kb chain letter, and multiply it by all the users in $COMPANY, being 55,000, you use up 3.5Gb of disk space, and the bandwidth necessary to transmit it.
The disk space (including backups) costs us around £600 per year.
The bandwidth would tie up the entirety of a 2Mb site internet connection for about 5 hours, slowing down all our other network traffic in the meantime.
This is leaving aside the cost of 55,000 employees each taking 30 seconds to stop and read this email, which works out at about 450 man-hours.
If they then send it on, then the problem multiplies."

Grr. Where's my LART.

Edit:

Have now had a response

"I'm sorry for wasting your time, this only came to me this morning and I didn't know she had been reunited with her family. But I would rather waste people's time than think it wasn't my problem.

Regards"

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The way a server should be

This is one of our production oracle servers:

grw56e[erolison]:[~]$ uname -a
SunOS grw56e 5.6 Generic_105181-31 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
grw56e[erolison]:[~]$ uptime
  2:42pm  up 658 day(s),  2:55,  3 users,  load average: 1.12, 1.14, 1.14
grw56e[erolison]:[~]$

Guess what happened 658 days ago. We moved it into a new computer room.