From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Thu Sep 9 22:15:56 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i8A3Ft730775 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 22:15:55 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i8A3FnI30756 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 22:15:54 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 3196872C22D; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:37:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31371-72; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:37:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 9734672C1E1; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:37:38 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.4.030702.0 Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 20:10:48 -0600 Subject: Re: How to store 50 Terabytes per day? From: Tim Gorman To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on mail.sagelogix.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Level: X-archive-position: 9358 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: tim@sagelogix.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: tim@sagelogix.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org Well, what else should we do with 26 hours notice of the end of the world? No, don't answer that, please... :-) Have you ever read "On The Beach" by Nevil Shute? Alternatively, the person who first documented the concept of communications satellites (Arthur C. Clarke in a 1946 sci-fi short story) also provided the problem and a solution to NEO's in his novel "Rendezvous with Rama"... on 9/8/04 12:01 PM, Michael Fontana at mfontana@verio.net wrote: > Wait a minute. > > This article indicates an asteroid is predicted to hit the earth, > perhaps ending life as we know it, and we're discussing the world's > biggest database and how to manage it? > > Michael Fontana > Sr. DBA > NTT/Verio -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@freelists.org&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/