I'll bet that is a political statement, against list rules. Larry is currently making up a really high percentage of list traffic and this is beginning to annoy. L "Larry Sheldon" <[email protected]> wrote:
>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 > > > -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
