[GRLUG] A Moment of Silence

[Don Ellis]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:
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>> On Sep 8, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Joseph Workman <joseph.workman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Phil - that is funny you bring up that story. IBM iSeries/AS/400/i5
>> sales/service/administration people used to (and maybe still do) tell a
>> similar story about a AS/400 that was dry walled into a closet for years...
>> only to be found when they needed to do a system upgrade.
>>
>> I heard it as a novell server.  :)
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> http://bash.org/?5273
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> :wq

Many years ago (mid or late '90s, or early 2000s) I saw an ad for a
complete machine on a card the size of a memory DIMM, and they have
shrunk even more since then. I think one of the smallest mounted
inside an ethernet connector. And, with virtual machines, a device can
be completely enclosed within another machine. One of my latest
machines is just a dock for a hard drive, with ethernet connector on
the back. When a device can be so small as to be hard to see, or not
even present physically, I can imagine it could be increasingly hard
to find. Eventually, you'll have to check your light switches,
blender, toaster, and refrigerator (among others) to find all your
IPs.

--Don Ellis

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