XPost: rec.audio.pro   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Hank  wrote:   
   >Yes, I see you are posting from Panix.  Were you on Netcom in its   
   >heyday.  I'm one of the 3000 who got cut adrift when Earthlink   
   >discontinued Netcom shell service, and a good many of the Netcommies   
   >went to Panix.   
      
   I moved from a personal uucp site to Netcom in 1990 or so.  Gabe Wiener,   
   the father of this very newsgroup, told me that the management of Netcom   
   was a bunch of bozos and I should get a panix account.  I went with Netcom   
   instead because they had dialup POPs local to me and Panix did not.   
   Bob Reiger turned out to be a bozo, but then he sold the thing out to   
   Mindspring which went out of their way to wreck things, then to Earthlink   
   which went out of their way to wreck them further.  The final straw was   
   when I called Earthlink support's special shell hotline to tell them that   
   the /var partition on netcom13 was overflowing, and the guy on the phone   
   could not understand that I was not using a mac or a pc and he could get   
   no farther in his script.  I explained to him that the problem was on the   
   shell service and that the partition was full and somebody needed to clean   
   files.  He kept trying to get back on the script and ask me about my   
   computer.  After about ten minutes he said, "Maybe I should tell someone   
   about this, a lot of people are calling about this."  I hung up and called   
   Panix and I have been happy ever since.   
      
   >When I got cut loose, I ended up with Nyx.net in Denver, and got   
   >involved in setting up their current system, and still do systems   
   >administration on that site over the network (ssh access).  After   
   >retirement, when I moved up here to Wyoming, I had some involvement   
   >with a local communications company who were developing a high-speed   
   >wireless internet service.  So I'm "my own ISP," more-or-less a   
   >duplicate of what Panix and Nyx provide, but humming away about two   
   >feet from me.   
      
   I did that before I got the Panix account, but I'm delighted to pay ten   
   bucks a month to have someone else do all the sysadmin work for me.   
      
   >Now, down to the question of pro audio digital resources being   
   >replaced by so-called "cloud computing."  I don't see that happening.   
   >Pro audio is essentially a machine-control application, much more   
   >similar in its characteristics to machine-tool and robotics control.   
   >Audio operates in real time, and involves conversion between digital   
   >and analogue.  That requires dedicated hardware.   
      
   I don't know, a large portion of the pro audio computing is basically   
   just storage.  You need dedicated hardware for recording and editing,   
   but what do you do with everything once it's edited?  I would not be   
   surprised if some sort of cloud storage scheme wound up getting used.   
      
   Personally, I run 1/4" safeties of everything and put them in bonded   
   storage, but I'm paranoid.   
   --scott   
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra.  C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
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