From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:08:57 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Improve language. X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/b41ce628ab30e78c2529f70c82bd086e62ed0df8?hp=93b5072474c797a9a5b591b2c130d20e91dafddd Improve language. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2012-10-26-system-downtime.txt b/blog/data/2012-10-26-system-downtime.txt index 821c05bb56..aa75978d16 100644 --- a/blog/data/2012-10-26-system-downtime.txt +++ b/blog/data/2012-10-26-system-downtime.txt @@ -1,29 +1,26 @@ Title: 12 years of outages - summarised by Stuart Kendrick Tags: english, nuug, standard -Date: 2012-10-26 10:20 +Date: 2012-10-26 14:20 -

I work at the University of Oslo +

I work at the University of Oslo looking after the computers, mostly on the unix side, but in general all over the place. I am also a member (and currently leader) of -the NUUG association, which in turn -make me a member of USENIX. NUUG +the NUUG association, which in turn +make me a member of USENIX. NUUG is an member organisation for us in Norway interested in free software, open standards and unix like operating systems, and USENIX -is a US based member organisation with similar targets. I tend to -distill it down to the simple statement that all the skilled computer -people are members of NUUG, which while a goal is still not quite -reflected in reality. And thanks to these memberships, I get all -issues of the great USENIX magazine -;login: in the +is a US based member organisation with similar targets. And thanks to +these memberships, I get all issues of the great USENIX magazine +;login: in the mail several times a year. The magazine is great, and I read most of it every time.

In the last issue of the USENIX magazine ;login:, there is an -article by Stuart Kendrick from +article by Stuart Kendrick from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center titled -What -Takes Us Down (also -available +"What +Takes Us Down" (also +available from his own site), where he report what he found when he processed the outage reports (both planned and unplanned) from the last twelve years and classified them according to cause, time of day, @@ -67,7 +64,7 @@ User Impact: All users on H2 will be isolated from the network during this work. Afterward, they will have gigabit connectivity. Technician: [xxx] -

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He notes in his article that the date formats and other fields have been a bit too free form to make it easy to automatically process them @@ -80,7 +77,7 @@ be improved, read the article for the details.

I find the idea of standardising outage messages seem to be such a good idea that I would like to get it implemented here at the university too. We do register -planned +planned changes and outages in a calendar, and report the to a mailing list, but we do not do so in a structured format and there is not a report to the same location for unplanned outages. Perhaps something