RE: Storage Frust....

Thank you... The honor is gratefully accepted... Soon the hordes of BAARF party member shall rule the world! Um... Ok, maybe not rule the world... But at least we'll be loud!

Tim
BAARF Party Member #44

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Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

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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