Re: Storage Frust....

Well, Sir Tim - congratulations with your BAARF party membership # 44. The BAARF.zip file will be shipped in a second.

Mogens

Johnston, Tim wrote:

>Hey... I'm jealous!!! BAARF! BAARF! BAARF!
>
>Tim
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 7:30 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>Sir Visser,
>
>It would be my honour to enroll you in the BAARF party as party member #
>43 if you like.
>
>Also, if you enroll, I'll send you the whole BAARF.zip file (33 K) which
>contains the story, the dialogues, and the song texts of the BAARF
>musical which we'll do at the Database Forum Gala Dinner on Friday night.
>
>But only if you promise me to give me harsh critique in return!
>
>And that goes for all you other members (or possible members) of the
>BAARF Party, too. Except, of course, the ones going to the Database
>Forum. They'll have to wait.
>
>Mogens
>
>Piet de Visser wrote:
>
>
>
>>Group,
>>
>>After another run-in with Storage,
>>need to Vent Some frustrations:
>>
>>BAARF !!!!
>>
>>Thank you.
>>
>>While I'm at it,
>>let me add some other RAD ideas:
>>
>>Frustrated by vendors and manuals,
>>we were about to turn BAARF into:
>>battle against any Raw Filesystems
>>(Yes, Yes, I know, a raw-dev is not a FS).
>>
>>But, not wanting to thread on other ppls turf, we thought
>>
>>CCCP:
>>for Compulsory use of a Clustered Computing Platform,
>>whose mission should be to elimiate all usage of
>>Mulitple, In-duh-vidual, ORACLE_BASE/HOMEs
>>and to enforce the use of single-installed Oracle software
>>on Clustered file systems.
>>
>>And to stay in the same retro-atmosphere, we looked at:
>>
>>USSR:
>>for Usage of Single System Rollout:
>>to proclaim the use of sinle-installed ORACLE_BASE/HOMEs,
>>partly inspired by OpenSSI.org
>>
>>More ideas anyone ?
>>
>>Don't start me on:
>>the RAC party : Ridiculous Acronym Creators
>>followed by
>>the RAW devices: Ridiculous Acronym Worshippers
>>or just plain:
>>FAD : Funny Acronym Department ?
>>
>>No harm, no offence intended anywhere
>>(except for some storage ppl, maybe)
>>
>>Getting Late...
>>Tomorrow is 10G lanch-Europe,
>>and all these ideas will be legacy.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>PdV
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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