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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:17:54 -0400
From: "Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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On 08/12/2015 02:54 PM, Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>> The pros are that everyone has access to the same symbols and parts.
>>>
>>> The cons are that noone can work unless the server is online.
>>
>> If your server is offline for more than a few moments in this day and
>> age, you need to fire either your admin or your upstream provider.
> 
> All environments are not equal, blanket statements aren't useful.

  Ok, I'll call you on that.  As a sometimes-network architect and
administrator now, and a full time++ network architect administrator in
a previous life, I feel qualified to categorically assert that, if a
given machine is designated a "server", it had damn well better have
decent uptime.  If someone cannot achieve that in this day and age, even
in a backwater on a generator and a trash-picked computer, there is
something very, very wrong.

  And if that "server" can't be kept up, the solution is simple and
takes mere minutes: move to one that is.

  I remind you that this is 2015.  Datacenter-grade hardware is
available for free on every trash day in every developed and
half-developed country on the planet.

  There are a few blanket statements, and I stand by them.

             -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA