[rescue] Perverse Question

[Phil Stracchino]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:56:20PM -0500, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:39:41PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
> > Before he could rethink what he was going to say, one of the two turned
> > to him and said in very crestfallen tones,
> > 
> > 	"Your machines restart by *themselves*....?"
> 
> For some reason I just don't get it.


Well, apparently, at the time of this story at least, the Tandem boxes
*couldn't* just automatically come back up on their own after a failure
or downtime.  It all had to be done manually by the operator.


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