Originally posted by randy
I'm sure it's one of those old school Main frame guys again trying to cause problems.
As an "old school Main frame guy" should I take offence?
Even in those dark and distant days we knew that the hard questions were: What the hell happened? When? Why? How? Who? Once you have those answers, recovery is fairly easy. The only difference is one of scale - two operators getting their card decks mixed up, compared to . . . well, you know how it is today.
(The real problem is the promotion to "management" causes the brain to atrophy due to lack of excercise.)
"The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous" - Gibbon, quoted by R.P.Feynman