Offsite-Use water

Sy sy1235-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Apr 12 21:20:36 UTC 2005


On Apr 13, 2005 1:26 AM, William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> If I recall correctly, the original poster (hi Walter :-) was looking
> for reliable off-site backup, and he lives on the fifth floor of a condo.
> The fifth floor is a little low, but if he puts his 3-5Gb on CF or SD
> cards and embeds them in something like a lawn dart he should be able to
> get about a metre of penetration, no yard required.

Totally going off topic, but I laughed thinking it so I'll risk it:

You just made me think up some wacked out network-attached heat-sensor
which would do a last-minute backup and then launch that lawn dart by
some mechanical means.

Of course it would all have to be on a UPS.

And aiming that missile is left up to the end user.  ;)

--

Back sortof on topic.. I almost got in on a project to erect a
mid-distance laser network.  We were only a few blocks away and
figured a couple of towers would do the trick.  I liken this to the
"string between two tin cans" thing that I wondered about as a kid.

Of course, the real world is a bit too imperfect for such a wacked-out
network.  Setting up a network of repeaters and having a huge wireless
LAN setup would have been easier.  Of course, a VPN would do the
trick.

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Ok, properly back on topic now:

I still maintain that a VPN between a couple of consenting adults
would solve a lot of problems.  If, someday, someone's willing to
participate with such a thing, I'm game.  As long as everything's
encrypted en route, on-site and all that.  I'm going to (very) lightly
consider such a thing between my home and some random work computer
that I'll set up.

The big problem there would be bandwidth.. I'm already running pretty
thin on the stuff.. but after the one initial backup.. it should be
pretty easy to maintain.  A backup solution that understood the moving
and renaming of files would be especially nice to see.
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