Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:04:44 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia? Message-ID: <20080701050444.GA2142@kokopelli.hydra> In-Reply-To: <48694CFB.1030004@pixelhammer.com> References: <539c60b90806301348l4b09cd90n3972b41339276d6f@mail.gmail.com> <48694CFB.1030004@pixelhammer.com>
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--SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 05:15:39PM -0400, DAve wrote: > Steve Franks wrote: > >So call me a sociopath, but times are a bit scary. I'd like to do the > >2000's equivalent of the 1960's bomb shelter, and have my very own > >snapshot in case of major local/regional internet disruption, etc. > > > >What would be the best way to go about this. I see with <1T words, it > >appears doable on current technology. Maybe they should offer a > >snapshot on DVDs or disk as a fundraiser? I'd drop $300 for some sort > >of officially licenced copy, I suspect there are other freaks that > >would too... >=20 > When the world gets that bad, Wikipedia is the least of my concerns,=20 > slightly ahead of who is winning American Idol. If it comes to the point= =20 > the internet goes down for a long period of time, that $300 is better=20 > spent on a garden. >=20 > Just my thoughts. Actually . . . if things get that bad, you're going to need some firepower to protect your garden (and everything else you don't want taken from you by force). To properly protect a garden, you'd need to make it a community farm, with community members who have and will use firearms to protect it (and your Wikipedia mirror). Of course, I greatly admire the impulse to protect the collected knowledge of Wikipedia from disaster. It's also practical -- because it contains a lot of information that might be of use (including good subsistence gardening information, for those of us who don't have naturally green thumbs). Them's are just *my* thoughts. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Larry Wall: "Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as 'Unix'." --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkhpuuwACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKWzXgCfXrUO2p+1TwL6Tb6nr5Rx9EAV wGoAoKN1sxO1Yr4wv/EJSa1byWuP/B+J =1xji -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua--
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