LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agoTIL Pigeons can carry Internet trafficen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down16cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1119arrow-down1external-linkTIL Pigeons can carry Internet trafficen.wikipedia.orgLambdaRX@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agomessage-square13fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·17 days agoNever underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes hurtling down the highway.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·17 days agoAWS does exactly this. They will roll up with a semi and move your drives anywhere. EDIT: Crud. They ended Snowmobile this year. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-retires-snowmobile-truck-based-data-transfer-service/
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·17 days agoA hatchback full of SD cards can beat that easily, though.
minus-squaremox@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·17 days agohttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985)
minus-squareleftzero@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 days agoGet ready for a large file transfer…
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes hurtling down the highway.
AWS does exactly this. They will roll up with a semi and move your drives anywhere.
EDIT: Crud. They ended Snowmobile this year.
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-retires-snowmobile-truck-based-data-transfer-service/
A hatchback full of SD cards can beat that easily, though.
Not in a head on.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
Get ready for a large file transfer…