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" <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:

On 6/13/2010 15:54, Joe Greco wrote:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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