I could have sworn I started following this list in 1997 when I started
working with NT 4.0 drivers. I remember going to an OSR conference in NoCal
around that time. I am getting old, so I could be remembering incorrectly.
On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 4:44 PM xxxxx@gmail.com
wrote:
> <>
>
> But I am serious about wanting to know how far back in time people think
> the archives will be valuable. Back to 2005? Back to 2000?
> >
>
> IIRC 2000 ( Win2K) was first when DDK and FSDK became popular. Prior to
> that I don’t know, only used IOCTL driver and virtual device support.
>
> If it does not bleed, wouldn’t be a good idea to store them. If you see
> there is not much value that warrants keeping it, may be 2005 onward would
> be logical.
>
> >
>
> -Pro
>
> On Jul 28, 2018, at 1:33 PM, xxxxx@gmail.com
> wrote:
>
> >> Probably on S3/EBS/AWS (cuz, you know, isn’t everything)?
>
> Surely more than should be. I avoid Amazon like the plague. Literally
> everything about Google Cloud is better than Amazon; including only
> supporting the bare minimal Windows offerings. Their network is larger,
> faster, more secure, &c. But I digress.
>
> Surely we do not want OSR to bleed on this conversion, but wow, what an
> archive. It should be preserved and searchable somewhere; even if not part
> of the active list. I wonder how that can be achieved?
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 3:14 PM xxxxx@osr.com
> wrote:
>
>> Mr. Bassov:
>>
>> See the following:
>>
>> https:
>>
>> The “Troll” option isn’t checked in your profile… yet:
>>
>> https:
>>
>> Mr. Roberts:
>>
>>
>>
>> I posted this not even three hours ago, and you’re the SECOND person to
>> suggest/request that we expand what we’re moving.
>>
>> We chose 1 January 2010 as the starting point of the archives to port
>> totally arbitrarily. I, personally, have trouble believing that a lot of
>> posts made back in 2000 are still relevant.
>>
>> Do folks REALLY think posts back “to the beginning” (which is,
>> effectively, the year 2000) are valuable enough that we should port them?
>>
>>
>>
>> Well, “yes, no, maybe” – In the end, it’s all bits in the ether
>> somewhere. Probably on S3/EBS/AWS (cuz, you know, isn’t everything?)
>>
>> But, remember, we’re not having some intern take an afternoon to spin up
>> a RHEL server on Azure, install some shitty Open Source mailing list
>> software, and tell the community to “enjoy your new home.” We’re trying to
>> move to a platform that’s going to be professionally run and supported, and
>> work for us all now and into the future.
>>
>> So… it REALLY all comes down to money in the end. Believe me when I
>> tell you that (I hate to be crass, but) this move, and the ongoing support
>> of the site, is costing us a TON of cash. I don’t know how moving another
>> 10 years worth of archives is going to impact the overall cost of the
>> migration.
>>
>> If people really think it’d be valuable, I guess I can find out.
>>
>> You all wanna kick-in five bucks? If every list member wanted to donate
>> five dollars we could probably do it. I’ll start a GoFundMe…
>>
>> No, that was absolutely not serious.
>>
>> But I am serious about wanting to know how far back in time people
>> think the archives will be valuable. Back to 2005? Back to 2000?
>>
>> Peter
>> OSR
>> @OSRDrivers
>>
>>
>>
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