server uptime

[Mark Komarinski]

Bill McGonigle wrote:
> It's also connected naked to the Internet for remote monitoring.
>
> For some strange reason, you'd just accept this.
>   
Venturing even further off-topic, I have two different labs that wrote 
code without really consulting anyone else.  One thought it would save a 
lot of time if their fat client application connected directly to Oracle 
from anywhere on the Internet.  The other thought it would be a good 
idea to do the same with MySQL.  The Oracle group we didn't have much 
luck with and they're stuck using SSH port forwarding.  The MySQL group 
seems to be a bit more receptive and they may change their application 
to go through a web service instead.

I keep hoping that bioinformatics courses include even a week or two on 
'sane coding practices', but I doubt it will happen...

-Mark