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The Pandemic vs. the IT Department
ElsaBorzoi wrote to mention a Network World article suggesting some pandemic preparations for your IT department. From the article: "A survey last month of 300 Minnesota business officials found most thought a flu pandemic would significantly affect their business, but only 18% had preparedness plans in place. The poll sponsored by the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy found that close to two thirds said they were already prepared or somewhat prepared to move employees to remote locations or let them work at home, while 29% said they were not prepared. The H5N1 influenza virus, which originated in Asia, could hit the U.S. this fall, potentially causing an epidemic, the nation's chief avian flu coordinator warned."
Exactly! no one is going to give a flying f*ck about IT if this thing becomes the next black death. They'll have to strap hookers to the server racks to get any geeks to the datacenter ... in fact that should be their back up plan.
In hell, the servers all run Access.
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If you've seen the keyboards where I work, I should be immune to just about everything but a gunshot wound, (but I'm sure Dick Cheney's got a task force working on that one)
No. In hell, all databases are Excel spreadsheets.
The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.
Oh, they always warn us about the next big hurricane coming to New Orleans, and how it could flood the city, yadda yadda. Doom-and-gloomers. It's never as bad as they say, I'm not going to bother evacuating.
i think homeland security needs to keep an eye on this guy...
always mosh clockwise
The United States has approximately 548 doctors, 280 hospital beds and 772 nurses per 100,000 people.
In a pandemic with 50% infected, each doctor would have to care for twenty people, and each nurse for twelve.
Check your math. That's 50,000 infected people (274 of whom are doctors, leaving only 274 to care for the patients); making over 180 patients per doctor, nearly 130 per nurse. The mere idea of a hospital bed with 357 patients and three nurses would tax even the Spice Channel.
Weeks of coding saves hours of planning.
Company A CEO: "Thank god we spent all that time and money putting in place those safe guards for the bird flu pandemic when company B did absolutely nothing! Now let's use the advantage and sell lots of stuff!"
Company A COO: "Err... All of our staff and customers are dead. I'm afraid it's just you and me left in this $5 billion state of the art clean room.... Want to see me naked?"
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Oh God no, I am sitting here, reading this with my beloved cat Kalinka on my lap. And I live in Germany, close to a Sperrgebiet. This may be the last time I post here. Goodbye to you all.
The dangers of excessive individualism are nothing compared to the oppressiveness of excessive collectivism
Its absolutely essential to keep chickens and swans out of the server room. Get them out NOW!
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Plus there's nothing worse than being in a crisis and finding your backups are fucked !