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On Wednesday 22 October 2003 17:20, Simon Waters wrote: An excellent and useful reply. Basically, the guy who wrote the intial calumny is an arsehole, I just want a documented demonstration that his nature extends to this particular bit of FUD. > HP OpenView is ported I believe, although for all but the biggest > organisation I think it is pretty much overkill. > > IBM have ported their tools. > > is wholly credible to me that a better way of ensuring it works could > > be fashioned from statistical calculations and affinities, but I don't > > think I can do it myself. > > What are you wittering about here... Most set policies and have > mechaniss to see if those policies are complied with, and schemes to > notify admins, or autocorrect the situation. Drunkards Walk, Bayesian Statistics, chaos and complexity theories and so on. The extent to which starting with a random selection may be better than believing one can describe and control a mechanistic universe. Ignore it for the moment, it amounts to a suggestion that the underlying nature of the universe may be why Open Source development is better than Prince2. > The "for aserver in serverlist" approach is no hoper on big networks, > you need to account for some servers being down, so updates have to be > queued. Although in some cases updates may need to be synchronous across > a network! -- From the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.