At Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:16:22 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > > > > Money is not the real issue. It is time, and more importantly trust. > > Another minor correction: Karanbir has written on the list that he was > delayed by an HDD failure, so money is an issue IMHO. I believe the HDD failure was at his *day job*, not anything to do with CentOS itself. It sounded like Karanbir had to delay dealing with CentOS in order to deal with a work-related emergency. > > As a rural ISP 2 miles east of the middle of nowhere with a budget so > tight we pinch nickels until they $hit $s, when an HDD fails, we hot > swap it out of the RAID array and move on, typically within 5 minutes. > True, we have 4 GB drives that have been spinning since 1997 (hello > to Chuck Dahlem, head designer at Seagate in OKC), but that's what > life is like in rural America. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments