Re: OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?
- From: Chad Perrin <perrin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:04:44 -0600
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...
When the world gets that bad, Wikipedia is the least of my concerns,
slightly ahead of who is winning American Idol. If it comes to the point
the internet goes down for a long period of time, that $300 is better
spent on a garden.
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.
--
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'."
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