Alioth's Journal: Which animal to sacrifice?

Now if I remember correctly, goats work for SCSI. We've been doing goats for a while, and the SCSI bus on the web server seems to have worked fine.

However, I think we're making the wrong sacrifice for wireless networking and fibre optics and handheld devices. This unholy triumvirate has forced me to get up at 5am periodically over the last 3 weeks for the new tracking system (I work in the $WE_MOVE_PARCELS industry).

I thought chickens would do for both the fibre and the wireless, but this is obviously not the case. The fibre has been intermittenly flaky, and it's doing my head in. Also, the very very expensive Cisco wireless AP has been intermittently flaky, too. Then there's the handheld devices who see a bit of packet loss and think "I'm going to crash now". If I'm lucky, they come up again with a warm boot. Sometimes, they lock so solid only cold booting will make them recover.

Do the chickens need to be virgin? Or does this infrastructure really need the sacrifice of cattle?

animals.

[TinaMarie]

I don't have experience with fibre, but I've never found a sacrifice that would make wireless APs less flaky, and I've tried almost everything. Perhaps this is why people are concerned about the recent increase in extinction rates? What if we cut down the only bit of rain forest that provides a habitat for some species that we'll need to sacrifice to some technology we haven't invented yet?

Pain and savagery

[tqft]

The tech gods want pain and savagery before they will it to work.

Sacrifice kittens - cute ones. Maybe even paint them pink first.