On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Benjamin Reed wrote:
How about:
Our entire infrastructure as a society has moved to digital storage, and
yet we don't have backups that would last for more than a few decades.
We haven't noticed only because we've changed technologies so much in
the short lifespan of
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:15:00AM +0900, Dave Brown wrote:
And as a bonus, the new LOM now has greatly-improved, much-more
intuitive commands! Why would you want to waste your time typing silly
things like poweroff and poweron which any fool could guess? Now in
the wonderful Age Of The
2009/3/25 b...@cpan.org:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:30:19PM +0100, demerphq wrote:
Hows that for a thought? Some hacker 100 years from now may be
bitching about how hateful the microfiche robot is while they are
trying to convert it into the new fancy nano storage technology...
Well, we
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demerphq wrote:
Anyway, I apologise for not working out how to make this post about
hateful software...
How about:
Our entire infrastructure as a society has moved to digital storage, and
yet we don't have backups that would last for more than a
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Benjamin Reed rangerr...@befunk.com wrote:
Our entire infrastructure as a society has moved to digital storage, and
yet we don't have backups that would last for more than a few decades.
We haven't noticed only because we've changed technologies so much in
the
2009/3/25 Yoz Grahame y...@yoz.com:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Benjamin Reed rangerr...@befunk.com wrote:
Our entire infrastructure as a society has moved to digital storage, and
yet we don't have backups that would last for more than a few decades.
We haven't noticed only because we've
demerphq wrote:
2009/3/25 Yoz Grahame y...@yoz.com:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Benjamin Reed rangerr...@befunk.com wrote:
Our entire infrastructure as a society has moved to digital storage, and
yet we don't have backups that would last for more than a few decades.
We haven't noticed
Our entire infrastructure as a society has moved to digital storage,
and
yet we don't have backups that would last for more than a few decades.
I seem to recall a few years ago seeing a documentary that showed how
the Library of Congress records all their audio recordings onto vinyl.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 02:09:20PM +0100, demerphq wrote:
Anyway, I apologise for not working out how to make this post about
hateful software...
just because you can hit it with a hammer doesn't mean there isn't
software underneath.
all these webby management doodads and they're still not as
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:52:22PM +0100, b...@cpan.org 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.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:27:38AM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote:
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
Do you remember in the good old days, when Sun had this revolutionary
thing called a Lights-Out Management, which was basically an
overachieving serial console?
One of the really cool things about the LOM was how you could actually
power-cycle the server. You typed the following commands:
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