[hobbit] Hobbit -vs- BB4

[Rich Smrcina]

One might call that serendipity.

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:52:18PM -0000, Jones, Jason (Altrincham) wrote:
>> Henrik have you had your meeting with the phbs about this yet?
> 
> I have, but nothing has been decided yet.
> 
> However, I am now certain that some deity has been busy working in
> my favour. 5 minutes before the meeting ended, cell phones started
> beeping around the meeting room - and this turned out to be the 
> beginning of the biggest disruption of service our datacenter has 
> ever had. Several events conspired against us, but the result was
> a near 100% loss of all network connectivity on our core backbone
> network, and to our Internet connectivity.
> 
> So I had lots of time to demonstrate - also to the PHB's - that
> monitoring with a simple webpage works, even when you access it
> over a 56 kbit dialup connection through a cell phone. I had 
> quite an audience throughout the afternoon, evening and night.
> 
> So I think the odds are in my favour right now.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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