On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Steven Lumos wrote:

> But... they run software written by you.  But... they won't run Ruby built
> by you? Wow.  That's just.  Wow.
>
> We have not so far had a problem dictating a version of Ruby which the site
> installs themselves.  But then technically we deliver to government
> contractors so I guess that's the difference.
>
> Steve
>
> P.S. Companies who have delivered an OS guaranteed to crash on reaching N
> days of uptime: Microsoft, RedHat.

choir.preaching!

and all true.  strange.  but true.

i have a ten line c programm i can compile and run on our cluster within the
security policies of the moment.  it kernel panics 30 nodes at once.  no ruby
1.8.x though.

arrgggh.

-a
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