Re: Jeff on vacation?

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:30:31 +0000 (UTC), hmmmm <hmmmm@hmmmm.net>
wrote:

>Is Jeff on vacation. This group is pretty worthless as he is the only
>one who provides any good answers here.

Ummm... you have it backwards. I'm almost always on vacation.
Ocassionally, I run out of money, or get bored, so I do some paying
work. When on vacation, I have time to post wrong answers to Usenet.
When working, I don't have time.

Meanwhile, I bought myself a new computah and am slowly transfering
all the rubbish from the old machine in a hopefully organized manner.
500GBytes is a very big dumpster. Garbage in, organized garbage out.
A bigger trash can, does not make a cleaner office. The difference
between data and information is that you can usually find information.
Etc.

The real problem is that I haven't seen any questions lately that are
worth answering or that I have a clue how to answer. I also don't
like answering the same questions more than a dozen times. In order
to obtain my minimum recommended dose of Usenet, I've been busy
polluting other newsgroups. I'm also working on a Usenet filter for
Forte Agent that will automatically vaporize one-line comments. Yours
is two lines, so you're safe, for now.


--
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150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

"Jeff Liebermann" <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote in message
news:6knp65hp9hi3bgorap6h8amnnkkdigtenj@4ax.com...

>
> Meanwhile, I bought myself a new computah and am slowly transfering
> all the rubbish from the old machine in a hopefully organized manner.
> 500GBytes is a very big dumpster. Garbage in, organized garbage out.
> A bigger trash can, does not make a cleaner office. The difference
> between data and information is that you can usually find information.
> Etc.
>

That's surprising, have 2 1tb usb drives and filled em both up....


> The real problem is that I haven't seen any questions lately that are
> worth answering or that I have a clue how to answer. I also don't
> like answering the same questions more than a dozen times. In order
> to obtain my minimum recommended dose of Usenet, I've been busy
> polluting other newsgroups. I'm also working on a Usenet filter for
> Forte Agent that will automatically vaporize one-line comments. Yours
> is two lines, so you're safe, for now.
>

Ever think about running a simple network/file server with forums and
libraries of faqs/answers?



>
> --
> Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
> 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
> Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
> Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:01:40 -0400, "Peter Pan"
<pponvistaNOSPAM@MarcAlanNOSPAM.Info> wrote:

>"Jeff Liebermann" <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote in message
>news:6knp65hp9hi3bgorap6h8amnnkkdigtenj@4ax.com.. .
>> Meanwhile, I bought myself a new computah and am slowly transfering
>> all the rubbish from the old machine in a hopefully organized manner.
>> 500GBytes is a very big dumpster. Garbage in, organized garbage out.
>> A bigger trash can, does not make a cleaner office. The difference
>> between data and information is that you can usually find information.
>> Etc.

>That's surprising, have 2 1tb usb drives and filled em both up....

I use small fonts. They use less disk space. I've also considered
using one space instead of two after periods. If desperate, I could
just delete the spaces, so that AllTheWordWillRunTogether.

I do have several 1TByte USB drives, but they're for customer image
backups, not live data. I'm not into video or byte collecting, so
massive storage is not really needed.

>> The real problem is that I haven't seen any questions lately that are
>> worth answering or that I have a clue how to answer. I also don't
>> like answering the same questions more than a dozen times. In order
>> to obtain my minimum recommended dose of Usenet, I've been busy
>> polluting other newsgroups. I'm also working on a Usenet filter for
>> Forte Agent that will automatically vaporize one-line comments. Yours
>> is two lines, so you're safe, for now.
>
>Ever think about running a simple network/file server with forums and
>libraries of faqs/answers?

No. I'm too busy to waste time on thinking. Besides, I don't read
FAQ's, I write them.

In the distant past, I ran one of the local Usenet CNEWS servers.
Before that, I ran a BNEWS Xenix 286 server, with an enormous 20MByte
disk drive. Telebit modems came later, so distribution was via me, on
my bicycle, carrying DC600A cartridge tapes. I don't ever wanna do
anything like that again. The thought of it still brings me
nightmares.

--
Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

On 27 July, 14:04, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
> my bicycle, carrying DC600A cartridge tapes. *I don't ever wanna do
> anything like that again. *The thought of it still brings me
> nightmares.

Well, what was
the round trip latency
and bandwidth of your
bicycle network?
<g>

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:17:19 -0700 (PDT), bod43 <Bod43@hotmail.co.uk>
wrote:

>On 27 July, 14:04, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
>> my bicycle, carrying DC600A cartridge tapes. *I don't ever wanna do
>> anything like that again. *The thought of it still brings me
>> nightmares.
>
>Well, what was
>the round trip latency
>and bandwidth of your
>bicycle network?
><g>

Well, a DC600A tape holds about 60Mbytes uncompressed. The daily
traffic started out at about 2MBytes in 15 assorted newsgroups. When
I added comp.sources, it started to fill two tapes. The tape was very
efficient as there were about 4 or 5 Usenet users on the system, some
of which were major corporations. The tape would make the rounds in a
day or two. Those were the days when it was considered amazing if a
UUCP transport email message would arrive in several days, so a 2 day
delay was acceptable.

I eventually gave up and bought a Telebit T2000 modem (19.2Kbits/sec
thruput) and dedicated phone line. I later subscribed to seismo and
later UUNET feeds after ihnp4 died. The bicycle transport system only
worked for about 6 months. However, it wasn't exessive traffic that
killed the bicycle transport system. It was winter and I didn't want
to do it in the rain. I was thinking of writing an RFC for bicycle
transport, but never did.

I had no idea how important Usenet was to my Usenet "customers" until
I got busy one day and couldn't deliver for a few days. It was almost
as if the world was going to end. A temporarily messenger was found
and Usenet deliveries continued. Later, we shared the delivery job.

--
Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558