Friday, July 07, 2006

A Marvelous Side Note

I updated the link to the left with Steve's lab e-mail address. Take note: the e-mail is not instaneous. For those of you "in the know," AWE's open system is behind the air-gap. For those like me who don't have a clue what that means, basically any e-mail going to Steve goes to one central computer outside the AWE system along with every other e-mail going to AWE. All of the e-mails are loaded on to a disk, then physically walked from that computer to another secure computer inside the AWE system to continue its journey to Steve. An e-mail from Steve follows the process in reverse. So the e-mail speed depends greatly on when the e-mail is received in relation to when it's time to upload and walk the e-mail to the other computer.

If I totally botched this explanation, it's Steve's fault because this is what he told me.

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