Dizzy and James are at work really late today. Fixing the whole network and making sure everything is the way it was before took all the resources they could muster. Back at the campus, Christian has a stack of things that need their attention. Of course, today a backup didn t work, some elements of their homegrown network management software had a really bad time checking the routers, and a lot of other things just waited for a day like this to go wrong.

While James fixes the network management software by telling it the new SNMP read community, Dizzy walks over to the boss of the department to tell him the story. The boss is predictably not very happy about the whole thing, but in contrast to James fears, he does not even consider any disciplinary actions. Rather, he congratulates the two admins to the well-done job of recovering without any loss. He, too, has read Cliff Stoll and appreciates that they don t try to catch hackers for the next year but rather concentrate on the tasks ahead.

Back in his office, Dizzy is about to check his remaining e-mails and answer a few of them concerning things he didn t do in the last two days, when the phone rings: Professor Tarhanjan here. Say, what s the deal with all these messages on the printers?

What are you talking about?

Look, I know you find this funny, but it s not so nice to distract all those students from their work.