George Fremin III wrote:
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:29:17AM -0800, Paul Erickson wrote:
Computers at an expedition
Having recently been responsible for the computer network of a
dxpedition,(my first) I thought I would try to pass along a few things I
learned in the process in an effort to help anyone else who might find
themselves in a similar position/situation.
Having done this for a dxpedition as well - I think your
comments are quite good.
I found that unlike a contest the dxpedition really has little
need for the networking of computers. Adding a network increases
the level of complexity that I was not willing to deal with.
Each computer just kept a running log for whatever was
worked on it and each day I wnet around and did a savelog
to floppy and merged these all together on my computer thus
updating the 'master' log.
Hi George,
While you make a good point. I this case I was glad the network was
there for redundancy purposes, because in addition to everything else I
had to deal with, I also had a hard disk failure. I was fortunate enough
to catch it quickly enough to get the data off it shortly before it died
completely, but If the failure had happened while I was asleep, and if
it hadn't been connected to another computer, a great deal of data would
have been lost. While prior to the failure, I had broken the network of
4 into two networks of two, I'm really glad I wasn't dealing with
standalones...
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cheers, Paul - VA7NT - email: va7nt@telus.net
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