"Paper, it turns out, is a very reliable backup medium for information."
finally my backup strategy of tens of thousands of pages of dot matrix printing on continuous feed paper has been validated
finally my backup strategy of tens of thousands of pages of dot matrix printing on continuous feed paper has been validated
He had me come in each morning and go over the logs for the servers on our VOIP product - which fed to a line-printer (dot matrix) in real-time and would spit out a ton of paper. (as much as I hated this, I love the sound of dot-matrix printers)
I had to go through the logs with a highlighter and highlight out anything suspicious...
This was the mid-late 90s and we were one of the few companies to have already adoped Linux to production at that time.
Some of our employees were the authors of H.323 and some other protocols - and flourished out to all sorts of your streaming techs today.
(At this point, I've no idea what eventually became of those boxes, though...)