José Matos (jamatos(a)fc.up.pt) said:
On Monday 28 May 2007 05:41:04 Bill Nottingham wrote:
> So, my reading of this is 'larger phys/chem institutions are
> crazy and don't understand sane systems management'. Am I reading
> this wrong?
Don't downplay their efforts, most of their problems run for months and they
are very carefull about the results, after all is their reputation that is at
stake. :-)
Yes, but... describing a situation where results are run on whatever
machine of whatever OS, with whatever random libs happen to be in
/usr/local? Doesnt sound like an environment that intends to be replicable,
or easily managed. What happens when a disk goes out? Or someone replaces
one of those libraries?
Bill