RE: The Rolling Blackouts Are Not Just Another Rock Band !!

Actually I was thinking about using the politicians as a conduit to enhance our transmission capabilities on the grid in the central valley where the biggest bottleneck is. ;-)

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From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Scott.Shafer_at_dcpds.cpms.osd.mil
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 12:47 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: The Rolling Blackouts Are Not Just Another Rock Band !!

Fear not, Steve. When take over this planet, power will be provided - even if I have to make the silly politicians who are at the root of this problem run in one of those gerbil-wheels to generate electricity...

Its Friday and we don't give a d***!!!

BUWAHAHAHAHAH! Scott "Evil Overlord" Shafer
San Antonio, TX (for today - tomorrow the world!)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Orr [SMTP:sorr_at_arzoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 12:51 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: The Rolling Blackouts Are Not Just Another Rock Band !!
>
> We lost power in the office yesterday for over an hour then had to spend
> another hour recovering a file system from backup. I just finished
> re-implementing backups of all our UNIX servers with Veritas. Nothing
> quite
> like a real live test! Whew!
>
> Our development and test servers are here at our office location. We have
> UPS but the shutdowns are not automatic and take awhile, especially in the
> dark! When the power came back on I had to scramble to bring a couple of
> Oracle databases back up. Our production database and code is at a secure
> AT&T "bunker" with redundant power co-generation... sure glad for that!
>
> Now I'm bracing for another day of this and singing "The Blackout Blues."
> Looking for the PG&E bill to figure out which blackout block we're on. Uh
> Oh, anyone got a flashlight? Someone please tell me it's Friday!
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