On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> Before they willy-nilly implement a mechanism that prevents you from copying
> your data from drive to drive, they'd better come up with backup software
> that works 100 % of the time in 100% of circumstances. Just now they've
> only achieved 10% in each category.
> Moreover, they'd better make certain their drives have an actual worst-case
> time before failure of at least 100 years, since someone somewhere is
> entitled to be able to use his data that long.
> This may mean that OS and application vendors actually have to prove that
> their stuff works, under all possible conditions. That means test intervals
> on the order of 100 months per unit. Can you imagine testing a multitasking
> system to a depth of, say, 2^32 input combinations in all possible states?
"They'd better..."
"They'd better..."
"...have to prove their stuff works..."
Or WHAT?
Tea in the harbor?
Just WHO is going to bring about such resposibility?
The guvmint is NOT on the side of improving reliability.
Just what can WE do to bring about the needed reliability that you
mention?
Think carefully about just what would it take to turn billg into a
millionaire.
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, John Lawson wrote:
> > On the Proposal to Individually Brand (R/O) all mass storage units for
> > Personal Computers:
> > FEH!!!! FEH!!!! FEHFEHFEHFEHFEH!!!
> > And I neither wiegh 300 pounds, have a full unkempt beard, or collect
> > guns, or even own one. I ain't got nothing to hide, it's just the *idea*
> > of how easily such schemes lead down the slippery slope into a subtle kind
> > of 'fascism' for want of a better word.
There is way too little tea in the harbor.
Besides, my beard is kempt.
> > Taken along with the rapidly-forgotten little bit of intelligence that
> > Our US Supreme Court has apparently sanctioned selective 'convenient'
> > disenfranchisment, and nobody seems to much care...
That's how the slippery slope gets started.
> > Sigh. I'm getting Old and Cranky and Way, Way off topic.
> > Happy NuYeer to All
Happy Humbug!
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Fri Dec 29 2000 - 11:38:31 GMT