On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:52:22PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > > How about a civilization 1000 years from now finding a bunch of > hard drives or CD-Rom full of documents in the binary format of your > choice?
They'd find junk. The plastic used to bond CD's isn't nearly as long-lived as papyrus. Yeah Philips, "Perfect Sound Forever." Uh-huh. Oops, plastic hate and audio marketing hate... uh... Well I hates the wireless networking vend-o-tron they use here at the PyCon hotel but that's a given... I also hates the firmware in our StorageTek 2540, which has been throwing an amber trouble light on the face plate for as long as we've had it, in spite of their webby management doo-dad showing nothing wrong and the SAN itself purring along seamlessly (so far as I know -- "Nature always sides with the hidden flaw"). Oh and HOW I hates the webby doo-dad, for (a) running on Tomcat and (b) requiring, in spite of this allegedly "cross-platform" platform, a Solaris host to run it in. And also throwing false networking errors, then automatically starting up so many pointless tickets with Sun tech support that we ultimately had to shut off monitoring altogether. (No, there wasn't any halfway option like "mail me but don't phone home, you panicky idiot." I'll just wake up one morning to discover that all our most important services have been disk-wedged since 02:30 when the real wolf comes.) There, I feel a little better. Sun, how much did you pay for StorageTek? I think you paid too much.
