shutdown -h in Denver

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday 21 December 2006 13:53, Collins Richey wrote:
> Two young men (18-20?) had gone ?to purchase a new used car, and were
> driving home in separate cars. One was the son of a friend in our
> neighborhood. His friend was driving the new car downhill at est.
> 85mph when he lost it, flipped into the culvert, and ejected from the
> vehicle. ?And this was on totally dry pavement. He didn't survive long
> at the hospital. A very sad beginning to the holidays.

Sad...   but reminds me of my favorite  disaster-recovery story.

A very large corp was moving its mainframe operations from one city to another 
quite far away.  (this was many years ago)

In a good planning move, they decided they had better make two copies of the 
restore tapes and ship them on separate airlines.  They even hired two 
separate courier firms to take the tapes to the airlines and two separate 
couriers at the other end to pick them up.   Total redunancy throughout.

And as the two separate delivery drivers sat at the loading dock waiting for 
the tapes to be ready,  one says to the other  "I'll bet I get to the airport 
before you do!".

You can figure out the rest.......  :-)