Berlin court used Windows 95, hit by virus, now uses typewriters & fax
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Earth quake hit and broke all the tablets.
- Berlin court switching to the oral tradition replacing facts with mythological creatures & fantastic stories.
...and thus the circle is completed, next step: Berlin court opens Twitter/Facebook account to spread their fantastic stories.
Für einige sei die Arbeit von Jahrzehnten dahin – nämlich für jene, die in dem vorgeschriebenen, nun aber gesperrten Verzeichnis gespeichert haben. Wer sich nicht an die Vorschrift hielt und seine Voten, Urteile und Textbausteine auch lokal auf dem Dienstrechner speicherte, hat die Daten nun noch.
Which Google puts as
"For some, the work of decades is gone - namely for those who have stored in the prescribed, but now locked directory. Those who did not abide by the rule and also stored their votes, judgments and text modules locally on the service computer still have the data."
But yeah, I agree. For an engineering country, Germany is a bit more "conservative" when it comes to IT. The slow internet is another good example of this. I also just bought a Fitbit and I am still thinking twice if I should try out Fitbit Pay in the wild...
From https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2016/08/11/e...
Culture plays a role, too. Digitally sophisticated Scandinavians may be comfortable buying groceries on their smartphones but a deep-rooted aversion to being tracked—a scar left by the Stasi—lies behind German distrust. A recent survey by PWC revealed that two in five Germans don’t use mobile payments because of concerns about data security (and nearly nine in ten worry about it). When the German finance ministry recently proposed capping cash payments at €5,000, as in some other countries, Bild, a daily newspaper, organised a reader protest.
Isn't Berlin quite different to other parts of Germany? When I was in Munich last year they seemed to have a more progressive view.
An exception are typical money laundering and tax evasion businesses such as many Vietnamese restaurants.
So it has to be regulatory?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
Edit: from the timeline...
* December 2013 — Munich open-source switch was "completed successfully".
* August 2014 — Migration back to Windows under consideration.
Here we are comparing to a typewriter and a fax. That is a massively different case. One computer can handle both the type writer and the fax; the save button of Libre Office can be made (trivially) to just mail (or fax) a PDF etc. You get all the benefits of your typewriter/fax and none of the misery that Munich had.
Also the Munich thing was way too early; 2004 was too early. It would be easier now; at the time it was too ambitious. When 2014 came along, no-one was really invested in the idea anymore; more frustrated I would say.
However much of a Linux fan I am; I know that some things don't work. If I would be on a council to do those kind of things, I would be looking at a mix of tables, chromebooks, linux machines and windows machines depending on job description and demands. Windows would definitely be the least used of all of those because it simply is not needed for most tasks most people are doing during a work day.
Why deal with the implications of an online system when you can just... not do that? An online system is a liability.
I feel like it's really hard to build software that survives on its own for even a tiny bit of time. Are we in an era that will leave no usable artifact behind?
A typewriter is no more or less secure than a keyboard.
A computer is far more than a typewriter, you need to compare the security of the documents and the entire system. A non-networked computer in a locked vault with encrypted files and a password is more secure from incorrect access than a pile of documents in a locked vault, although once incorrect access is gained, the scale of the damage can be far higher with a computer (it's easy to read one or two documents, but to try to smuggle 5000 documents out physically is hard. To sumggle them out from a computer is far easier.
As the common poster in the 90s went - To Err is Human, to Really Foul Things Up requires a Computer.
Or were we not posting random sayings?
Does that mean he's dead and in a mortuary?