WTF is a Catch-21? I know what a Catch-22 is seeing as how I worked for Captain Major before he was promoted to Major Major but again what is a Catch-21.

Surface???

No argument but it is not as cheap as the GP was making it out to be. Setting up a robust environment is not cheap nor easy. If you are setting up a new environment from scratch there are a lot of costs unrelated to computing hardware that individuals often fail to account for. A co-location or cloud environment may, and I emphasize may, be a way to go. In my experience the way the cloud vendors wind up nickel and diming you makes it not such a no-brainer.

Sure, then cost out the electrical and HVAC infrastructure to make sure that the wonderous blade server always has power and cooling. And no a simple UPS in the rack is not going to suffice for that AD/E-mail/File server infrastructure that supports 200 lawyers in three different buildings across six blocks in downtown Madison Wisconsin.

Not a fan of "Cloud Computing" but it is not as simple as buying a Blade server and plugging in an internet connections.

I connect all the time at 9500 feet. Maybe because I live in Cripple Creek, CO.

Billy Joel -- Cristy Brinkley now that was marrying above his pay grade. Gives hope to us all

Exaggerating just a wee bit aren't we. A wing of B-52s was at Beale, max of 26 at any one time. Each B-52 could carry up to 8 nukes if they were the smaller type. A BUFF (Big Ugly Flying Fucker) or (Big Ugly Fat Fellow) could carry a max of 26 750Lb iron bombs using both internal and external store.

A lot of firepower but hardly hundreds of BUFFs at a single base each with hundreds of nukes on board.

Lots of hours on SAC parking ramps pulling firefighter standby on nuke loaded B-52s.

Yeah the probability of carbon based life is 100%, just look into a mirror.

Try doing a DC Promo of a very, very large Active Directory (think Air Force large) to an island with a satellite link of 512K then tell me the SneakerNet is dead.

Yeah we did the DC Promo on a machine here then sent the disks via the next plane. I think that qualifies as a SneakerNet for today's kids.

Isn't it about time to migrate to ethernet?

Except ever since the Reagan era we have to outsource everything. Can't let the military do stuff when we can pay a contractor twice as much to do it.

And when you have it figured out Congress decides to tweak something just for fun.

Yep, and in the military no one seems to have the balls to make the user learn and use the new shiny. Speaking from experience, the AF in my username stands for Air Force

Sorry, I forgot to use the sarcasm font.

Isn't the Post Office a non-Government agency now? What with having to turn a profit and all.