Most energy efficient (home) setup

Wed Feb 22 23:26:18 UTC 2012

Joe Greco wrote:
> Quite frankly, it's a little horrifying how quickly people have embraced
> not owning their own resources.  On one hand, sure, it's great not to have
> to worry about some aspects of it all, but on the other hand...

> The web sites that we entrust our data to can, and do, vanish:

> You know where I never have to worry about any of that?  On gear we own
> and control.
> 
> "Cloud" is a crock of hooey buzzword.  There's no "cloud."  For the
> average end user, it is the realization that we've farmed out tasks to 

> Sun had it right all those years ago: "The network is the computer."
> But it doesn't have to be Amazon's network, or Google's network.
> We *are* the North American Network Operators' Group.  The people
> here are more than just a little clued about this stuff.

I wholeheartedly agree.
I couldn't have said it better :-)

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