[techtalk] Hi Everyone!

[Conor Daly]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:43:42PM +1000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
jenn at simegen.com thought:
> Kathryn Hogg wrote:
> 
> 
> > I still remember reading this in college (early 80's) "Never
> > underestimate the bandwith of a station wagon full of tapes travelling
> > down the freeway at 60 miles per hour".
> 
> SneakerNet[1] is still sometimes the fastest network; especially 
> for large amounts of data.

Latency sucks though...
 
> [1] IE: put the data on some sort of medium, put the medium in the
> hands of a person wearing sneakers, have person deliver it (by
> whatever means) to the target machine.

Conor
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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

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