From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 05:10:01 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AB9C10656B0 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 05:10:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-115.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-115.bluehost.com [69.89.24.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B8F88FC22 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 05:10:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 16053 invoked by uid 0); 1 Jul 2008 05:09:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 1 Jul 2008 05:09:57 -0000 Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KDY7p-0005qF-Mw for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:09:57 -0600 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:04:44 -0600 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:04:44 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20080701050444.GA2142@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Mailing List References: <539c60b90806301348l4b09cd90n3972b41339276d6f@mail.gmail.com> <48694CFB.1030004@pixelhammer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SUOF0GtieIMvvwua" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48694CFB.1030004@pixelhammer.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} DomainKey-Status: no signature Subject: Re: OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:10:01 -0000 --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--