Probably one of the most stressful scenarios a technology professional will face will be a total outage of systems and the need to fail over to a disaster recovery or backup location.

Yesterday Google's Gmail was out for two hours or more affecting a number of user both consumer and commercial. September 1st the Google mail service was out as well.

Recently we acquired an allotment of old hp 6120 laptop to be provisioned for Linux Against Poverty, a great charitable organization in Austin which gives computers to schools.