On 12/29/07 5:27 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

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> I still suggest a heartbeat monitor and a modem.

A heartbeat monitor makes the system seriously more complicated and thus less 
reliable.

If the proposed system boots from a non writable medium (yes there are flash 
devices with a write-protect switch, CD-rom is also OK although dust 
collection on the laser detector is an issue) and works in memory, diskless!, 
unintended log events will be written to memory (that might overflow but who 
cares for this application) and the system always boots the same after power up.

+++chefren