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Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine UI Examples by q3k on Thursday August 28, 2014 @03:23AM (#8236226)
> Servers are cattle, not pets.

That is for the owner of the server to decide, not an universal truth.

Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine UI Examples by RX14 on Thursday August 28, 2014 @08:54AM (#8236951)
I have pet servers!

Cuddles a server

Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine UI Examples by angersock on Thursday August 28, 2014 @11:09AM (#8237553)
I suspect a lot of the people who view servers as cattle probably haven't had to maintain bare metal hardware, or do serious ops work. It makes sense that you wouldn't get attached to an EC2 instance--most of the "fun" [sic] has been taken out of it.