Currently there's five machines permanently networked here. They all contain the serious core stuff. A couple of the machines are pensioned off 486s, with little other value now. Plus there's two Jaz drives in the building and the portable also carries a fair amount of stuff. Plus every Friday a man comes around and carves all the new stuff onto stone slabs and buries them in the garden... I think I'm okay.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker describes a modest but functional tech setup, ending with a humorous reference to preserving data on stone.
- In plain terms
- I have a few old computers and a backup system involving carvings on stone.
- What can you take from it?
- Humor helps us cope with the absurdity of modern tech habits.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you back up your important files?
- What counts as security in the modern age?
Another view
Stone carving is impractical for actual data storage.
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