On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:39:04 +0300, Anthony Ayiomamitis
<anthony@perseus.no2spam.gr> wrote:

Every week we have a different problem. Personallym I seriously doubt 
the competency of the individual(s) running these systems! There is 
absolutely no excuse for these constant problems week after week.

I'm not sure about the Berkeley group, but...
Consider working in a University environment with budget constraints,
and what ever equipment you can get.  Within these constraints you are
working with custom software written by grad and maybe undergrad
students.   Although I do find the outages annoying, there are many
legitimate reasons for failures with the  implementation and scaling
up of a system 

Teething problems are common even with commercial systems on proven
equipment.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(Retired sys admin, programmer, and project manager)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Anthony.