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You are outdated to the extent that you would have been behind the times in the 1680s where the word was already being used to mean 'what follows must be taken in the strongest admissible sense'.
Curious why such a specific time period. Is there a source for 1680s? The 17th century would probably be sufficient otherwise.
> When I figured out the problem, I contacted a colleague at Moratel to let him know what was going on. He was able to fix the problem... I wonder how he contacted his colleague. In this case, I presume that routing to other networks were unaffected. But in the general case, with a future of everything over IP, what will network engineers use to communicate about faults?
"I'm a network engineer at CloudFlare and I played a small part in helping ensure Google came back online." Uhh, no. Without the "ensure", then maybe.
Outage in an ASN != Google went Offline. The title puts the blame on Google which isn't true.
Does this mean that in the future we should ignore all routes comming from PCCW (since they rebroadcast all rules without filtering)?
Best explanation ever. Wow, seriously, this person can use the right words to help even the non-technical people understand such a complex situation. Thanks for posting this.
> When I figured out the problem, I contacted a colleague at Moratel to let him know what was going on. He was able to fix the problem... I wonder how he contacted his colleague. In this case, I presume that routing to other networks were unaffected. But in the general case, with a future of everything over IP, what will network engineers use to communicate about faults?
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That's fine, as long as you have an alternative ready that takes the meaning that the old "literally" had when I do want the statement to be taken, er, literally. If you don't, then it makes a lot of sense to defend literal from non-literal usage. What's the alternative that I can use and be understood?
Context.
Did I mean literally literally, or figuratively? And how can the previous question have meaning?
> When I figured out the problem, I contacted a colleague at Moratel to let him know what was going on. He was able to fix the problem... I wonder how he contacted his colleague. In this case, I presume that routing to other networks were unaffected. But in the general case, with a future of everything over IP, what will network engineers use to communicate about faults?
If you run a network with BGP, you always have good contact information for your peers. "Good" meaning direct telephone contact with tech people running the show on the other side of the link.