On 6/13/2010 15:54, Joe Greco wrote: > If we want to be pedantic, Sony this year announced that it is shutting > down its production of floppy disks by next year. Of course, the choice > of "floppy disk" is irrelevant, and I'm guessing you know it. If your > devices are more comfortable with CD-ROM or USB MicroSD readers, then by > all means.
I certainly hoped that that was the case, but not very long ago I read a current "Emergency Recovery Plan" that depended on 9-track 1600BPI round reel tapes in a shop that had not had a drive like that for ten years. > Long before NANOG, there was actually a time that some of us hauled > around things like USENET on magnetic media, because it was simply the > highest bandwidth yet cheapest method to haul large amounts of data > around the city, back when a Telebit Trailblazer was still vaguely able > to cope with a USENET feed - and for a little while thereafter. Wide Band Truck was a major component of plans long ago. And I wish I had a nickel for every round-real tape in Anvil case I escorted through airports. > If your network has been so thoroughly taken over that you cannot hope > to get a file from a computer that does have a floppy over to your DNS > server, you have Much Bigger Problems to begin with... And that is the issue I was trying to raise. > Our monitoring systems are definitely able to detect when connectivity > goes away. What happens if and when that happens is generally left up > to a human to decide. The sorts of brokenness that one might potentially > discover if the government were to corrupt connectivity is much more > complex than simple on/off; I feel comfortable saying that the best plan > is to have diversity of resources and some in-depth knowledge, since that > also serves normal engineering needs well. I'll bet you think The Stimulus created jobs. -- Somebody should have said: A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Eppure si rinfresca ICBM Targeting Information: http://tinyurl.com/4sqczs http://tinyurl.com/7tp8ml
