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The Myth Of The 100-Year CD-Rom
Toshito writes "Are we putting too much faith in the ubiquitous "recordable CD", or CD-R? A lot of manufacturer claims 100 years of shelf life for a CD-R. But in real life, it can be much less. Expect failure after only 5 years... Personnaly I just discovered 6 audio cassettes with the voice of my late grandfather, talking about old times. These tapes are copies of reel to reel recorded in 1971, and they are still in excellent shape.
I was thinking about digitizing everything, do a little noise reduction, and burning this on CD's, for my childrens and great grand-childrens enjoyment, but it seems that old analog tech from the '70 is more reliable than digital. The full story at Rense. Other links about the subject: Practical PC, Mscience, and an excellent reasearch by the Library of Congress (warning! PDF): Study of CD longevity, html version (google):Study html."
Out of a box full of Floppy disks i can hardly find one that works (Box must contain at least several hundred we've aquired). When you need a boot-floppy it's very annoying! They just keep skipping or giving read/write errors, damned media.
You know what they say about malice and idiocy.
Malice and idiocy a Slashdot forum make?
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
Well, maybe not, but while we're on the subject it's worth a look.
man, you'd have every wannabe cra>0r attacking your site like billy-o...
and maybe even some malicious folk with talent. particularly if you "guarantee 100%"...
and this "bulletproof encryption" that you offer may be great now. but then again, enigma was great for the nazis in WW2. until someone came up with a new technology to crack it...
and if you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn...