I have to echo Matthew Haughey’s comments regarding admins taking down their servers for maintenance on a daily or weekly basis: is it really necessary? UC Berkeley takes down their online schedule and other services for a few hours everyday for maintenance:
I think taking down servers for maintenance is a great idea, and that more admins need to be willing to do that, but do you really have to do it on a daily basis? Most patches don’t even require a reboot, and new software packages don’t come out THAT often (and if you’re upgrading packages on a daily basis via CVS, you have bigger things to worry about).
Some wonderful tools are based upon Berkeley’s online schedule, and they are rendered useless when the server goes down for maintenance. While I thank the admins for at least remembering to perform the maintenance during the off-hours, some students - like me - need to check some schedule-related things early on the morning before class starts.
Yeah, yeah, this is a stupid rant. There are better things I should be doing, like donating cash to the Red Cross to help tsunami victims.
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