Obviously to document anything related to Cost of Living Adjustments? Important in today's economy, no?

Or are you aware of a different type of cola?

I think you are missing the importance of a disaster recovery plan, with backups, for any mission critical hardware, regardless of vendor. Why didn't Mag have any sort of backup plan that was tested? Clustered hardware does not equal a backup plan - thanks for trying there.

Was there in fact a schedule of backups of the operational system? This seems like a rubber band and duct tape operation to me.

I believe that it all depends on whether or not you are using whole cats.

While we are discussing costs, let me get this straight - $264,000 spent thus far, and there are only (6) cameras installed. At an average cost of $44,000 per camera I would $hitcan this program too.

I encourage Slashdot readers to check out the Orson Scott Card novel "Ender in Exile." He proposes a novel approach to both account for the navigation around (through) space junk, even at the particle level, during space flight. And it is based on an engine that leverages concepts in the strong force. Provides near light speed propulsion as well as junk removal - and it serves as a darned nifty planet killing weapon. Triple bottom line.

"over 394,000 PCs report massive amounts of virus infections due to the accidental removal of Antivirus 2009"