tape drives

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Sun May 20 12:08:14 2001

At 05:25 PM 5/19/01 -0600, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>I think what is being pointed out here is not the consumption of 3 hours in
>favor of recovering a 13 kB file, but the nominally $100 an hour one gets for
>the job on behalf of the VERY grateful client.

Yes, this client was an attorney's office, and this 13K license
file for a research app was preventing two attorneys from
completing a case. They are probably billed-out at twice
my rate.

This backup unit (IDE for what reason; the server was SCSI-based)
and WinNT's Backup program (not the sharpest crayon in the box)
had not much more than 5 gig to search.

What strikes me the hardest in the classic computing sense
is the loss of the distinction between /bin and /usr :
with Windows, it's all a big lump, so offices are spending
inordinate amounts of money on oversized tape backup units.

- John
Received on Sun May 20 2001 - 12:08:14 BST