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Perpetual Archive
My wife did her Thesis on this topic. It's Entitled:
E-Ternally Yours: The case for the development of a reliable repository for the preservation of personal digital objects.
The PDF can be read at the link below
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Archive for preserving personal digital objects
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Preservation of digital objects
My wife did this as her thesis.
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Digital Archive
My wife did her thesis on this subject
The case for the creation of a reliable digital archive for the preservation of personal digital objetcs
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Yes Yes Yes
My wife, who started programming in the late 1970's went back to College in 2008 to complete her BS degree. She learned PHP, Java, Java script, CSS. Graduated with honors from UCF. She is very skilled at web development now. She is 53.
She even completed a MS style Thesis in the honors in the majors program.
http://explorer.cyberstreet.co...
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Devices to read it
All fine to have a storage medium that lasts a million years. How about the drive to read it?
My wife did her thesis on the subject of long term data preservation.
http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf
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Books
Books. It worked before, it should work again.
The electronic preservation angle was my wife's thesis.
http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf
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Re:Professional Photographer use...
Digital is best, but you will need to copy your data to newer media about every 10 years. Keep it stored on at least two different media types. Example: DVD, HD. Older magnetic media holds up well. I have some DC6250 tapes I recorded in 1992 that still read fine. My DAT tapes from around 2000 not so much. Almost all my 5.25 inch disks are also fine. 3.5 inch, mostly worthless. Of course these older media don't hold as much data. Lower media density is a significant part of why they are more reliable.
I currently store my data on LTO-2 tapes and DVD's. I keep old systems complete with there HD's.
Long term storage and preservation of digital data is a complex subject. I should know my wife wrote the book on the subject. E-ternally yours, the case for the creation of a reliable repository for the preservation of personal digital digital objects.
http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf
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Long Term online Archive
This was the subject of my wife's thesis.
E-Ternally yours:
The case for the development of a reliable repository for the preservation of personal digital objectshttp://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf
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Archiving data long term
My wife's Thesis was on this subject. Readers won't last long enough to make this useful.
http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf
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We really need.....
Eternally Yours, The case for the development of a reliable repository for the preservation of personal digital objects.
http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf
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Dspace
Look at Dspace. Open source, free, yada yada
My wife did her thesis on digital repositories (link below) I helped setup the server and it is still online.
http://alexandria.cyberstreet.com/
Here thesis
http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf
Repost from my account, the earlier one posted without logging in seems to have been lost.
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Dspace
Look at Dspace. Open source, free, yada yada
My wife did her thesis on digital repositories (link below) I helped setup the server and it is still online.
http://alexandria.cyberstreet.com/
Here thesis
http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf
Repost from my account, the earlier one posted without logging in seems to have been lost.
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E-ternally Yours
E-ternally Yours - The case for the development of a reliable repository for the preservation of personal digital objects
http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf
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Digital archive / repository a bold proposal
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The digital repository
This was the subject of my wifes honors in the major thesis at UCF.
http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf
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Web hosting backups (or lack of)
Most web hosting companies don't backup uploaded content. Too resource and time consuming. We have always backed up customer data as well as config. We also host on real servers using real hardware raid. Backups are stored offsite and offline (tape). Not as cheap as some but then you get what you pay for. Your three domains would cost around $20 per month.
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Re:Did this in 1992
Bad link address
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Only know one female programmer...I married her
This of course means I'm biased. This lady (Lesley) is the most awesome programmer I have ever met. She was able to learn a new language (C) and write a functional system in three months. This was for a completely new system which involved encryption
,telephony datacom, graphics and peripheral control (scanner and plotter). She was the sole C programmer on the project with one other assembly language programmer who wrote a scale to gray viewer for the system.
As for touchy feely code.... nope almost no comments in the code. The Assembly language programmer on the project was scared that something would happen to her and he would need to take over the code and didn't understand it at all.
She has recently gone back to college (UCF) to update her knowledge. Her group in web development class consists of 3 men and two other women. I have been conversing with some of them because we have been hosting some of the group members project pages. She is the leader of the group and so far the men and women seem even in skill so far. None of the others seem anywhere near her skill level for programming however.
That having been said, after working in the computer field since 1980 have not encountered many women. It does seem to be a GUY thing.Programming seems to be even more heavily a GUY thing as I have never seen another one of these Unicorn like mystical beasts.
Her project home page:
http://lpeterson.cet4583.cyberstreet.com/
Patent page for the above mentioned project
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5222138.PN.&OS=PN/5222138&RS=PN/5222138 -
Re:Drivers
Costs for hardware substitution is not found only on the linux side.
How about PaperPort 6.5?
Note: PaperPort 6.5 is not supported on Windows XP.
How about Epson GT-6000?
This is a parallel scanner, parallel scanners are not supported under the TWAIN standard in Win XP. EPSON will only support scanners under the TWAIN standard, therefore it is not possible to install this scanner in WIn XP with EPSON drivers, period. This is a very old scanner and will not have a useful lifespan left, you can buy a more reliable and higher spec unit for less than =A370 ($100).
How about the visioneer 6000 series?
It looks like you're out of luck. After Win 2000 came out, Visioneer said they wouldn't update the 6000b driver to work with Win 2000 - which almost certainly means it won't work with XP either. http://www.ntcompatible.com/story346.html
How are you going to convince me to replace a perfectly working scanner just to upgrade my OS? :) It looks to me like linux is not the only OS that doesn't support all hardware. The difference being, once supported in linux, support never goes away. On the other side, windows support is built by the same people that make the hardware, thus the fast initial support but also the small period of support. When upgrading PC+OS, more likely than not, you _will_ have older peripherals, probably not currently supported by their vendors. So, I'll boldly say that while linux may cost _you_ money, it also may save money to others in other circumstances.
This happens because at least 51 percent of consumers[2] in the United States don't care enough about freedom. Case in point: Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian candidate, lost the 2004 Presidential election.
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Re:Apple's share of the desktop market.The Apple II dates back to 1977 (the Apple I came out in 1976.) The Commodore PET, therefore, preceeds the Apple II as the "first mass-market desktop" (it sold at about half the price despite the built in monitor and cassette deck too!), except that I don't doubt you can find machines before that.
Personally, I don't know what you're talking about. Apple was a significant player, but its importance was somewhat overblown by the fact that it was popular in schools and resold by a number of companies such as Bell and Howell. Its selling point was that it was one of the first, if not the first, colour home computer.
Outside of the US, Apple was very much a bit player until the Macintosh. In Britain, the home computer was popularized by Sinclair and Commodore, Acorn made a machine (the BBC) that competed in Apple's territory wiping it out completely, and it took Amstrad to actually take the PC out of the office and put it on people's desks. Apple rode along with a wave, it was never the creator of that wave, the wave, clearly, was coming along anyway.
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No map of the Hyborian Age?
Jeez, if they bother to include Springfield I would think they would have a map of Conan's world. As many Conan readers know, a couple fans constructed a map of the Hyborian world around 1930, based on reading the stories in detail, and sent it to author Robert Howard. Howard, who had drawn up his own map and history of Conan's world prior to writing the stories, commented that the fan map was very close to his own, differing only in minor details. The fan map is printed at the front of some of the books. I have never seen Howards original map and have always wondered if it still exists. There are several good modern Hyborian maps on the web, such as this one.
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Re:Today's players are too simple for the games
Very hard to say. 25 years ago the personal computer didn't exist.
Uhh, the first personal computer (i.e. the first computer that came out that didn't come in a cabinet or as a kit (like the Altair)) came out more than 25 years ago. Sorry.
Hell, I got my first computer when I was friggin 7, and that was Christmas 1982, over 20 years ago. :-P -
The real retro
If you wanted to be retro geeky, use the BNC connector for 10Base-2 (ThinNet).
Actually, if I wanted to be retro geeky, I'd use a picture of something that screams "retro" and "geek" to millions of people - not just a minority that recognize the ends of certain cables. Something like a Commodore PET, or an Intertec Superbrain, maybe with an acoustic coupler modem. Or perhaps a close-up of 80-column text on one of those Apple green phosphor monitors.
Even if I were a geek of the new generation (i.e. someone that grew up when IBM PC-compatibles were already the standard), the images would still work, as the principle of geek never changes. -
Re:MSRP vs real price. Free stuff from WoTC
Sorry, your wrong. WOTC is not publishing the changes (and there are a lot), just a document to upgrade your characters from 3 to 3.5.
This is only sort-of true: WotC isn't publishing a detailed list of changes for this update any more than they (or any other RPG publisher) is. What WotC is doing for the 3.5 update is publishing the revised SRD at (roughly) the same time the books themselves hit the stores. Since the SRD contains all the rules (`crunchy bits', as they're called in the industry), you can update your game without buying the new books (but you will need the 3.0 books, and the revised SRD, and you'll probably want the upgrade guide and the old SRD for assistance).
If what you really want is a detailed list of changes from 3.0 to 3.5, there are several available on the net already (the books are already in people's hands in various places around the world). Personally, I've been using this one, referenced from EN World, although I'm not fond of Word documents...
In general, EN World has been tracking the various 3.5 revision information very closely, and I recommend the site in general (no affiliation).
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Re:Bad layoutThen, you'd prefer my personal favorite keyboard, the Commodore PET keyboard.
Can someone find a link to modify one to work with a PS2?
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The Commodore PetWhile those are bad keyboards, the worst of all time has to be the one on the original Commodore Pet - it had tiny keys laid out in straight rows/columns and they were laid out alphabetically (not qwerty or Dvorak). If you knew anything about typing, it was painful to use!
The later versions of the Pet had standard keyboards - it made the Pet into a good, usable computer.
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1000 non-RPG websites for RPG ideas
This is a list from Enworld, like the title says: 1000 non-RPG websites for RPG ideas. I haven't looked through all the sites listed, but all are educational. Sites about curlture, geography, history, weapon making, map sites, etc. Surely you can find something in there for your cousins.
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Ancient Computing
The site does not describe computing before the 1900's. But there were ancient computing devices that do deserve recognition. Many ancient computing devices never had moving parts, so they could not be easily identified as machines. This shows how advanced they were for their time. Stonehenge is a great example.
Some links
Two timelines here and here which date well back into B.C.
There is even an ancient Greek clocklike machine over two thousand years old that can be found here.
For those who want links to every type of computing, even modern. -
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