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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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My wife did this as her thesis.

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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

http://explorer.cyberstreet.co...

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.

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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

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

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

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 objects

http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf

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

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

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.

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.

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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This was the subject of my wifes honors in the major thesis at UCF.

http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf

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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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

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.

Well, you could always vote with your wallet and incourage others to do the same... ;-)

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.

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.

Very hard to say. 25 years ago the personal computer didn't exist.

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.

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).

Can someone find a link to modify one to work with a PS2?

The later versions of the Pet had standard keyboards - it made the Pet into a good, usable computer.

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.

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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