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Bit Rot Stalks Your Digital Keepsakes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-if-all-the-things-lost-were-found dept.

axlrosen writes "The NYTimes has an article about the problems of digital archiving. How many of your digital memories will still be around 50 years from now, considering lost disks, incompatible formats, hard drive crashes, fading CD-Rs, etc.? Unfortunately Peter Briggs' solution won't work for most of us. The only real way to make sure that your grandkids get to see your digital photos is to make real photographic prints from them. (When I bought my Mom a digital camera I installed Picasa for her, and made sure she knows to order real prints of all the pictures she wants to survive through the ages...)"

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  1. Re:Perpetual backups by Moofie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow. Your sig is so boldly and simply stated, it has convinced me to completely change my worldview and make it the same as yours. Thank you for Saving me from my lifetime of ignorance and wrongheadedness.

    Do I talk to you about getting a slot in the Rapture?

    --
    Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
  2. Re:gee, nice ads on that link to Peter Briggs ... by Peale · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You have other problems, like this , perhaps?

  3. Re:Perpetual backups by GSloop · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Conservatives: Kill murderers, save children.
    Liberals: Kill children, save murderers.

    I thought it was largely the "law and order" conservatives that feel executions for minors is OK?

    Further, how does killing Murders save children? Surely you don't postulate that all murders are of children do you?

    And how do liberals kill children, and even if they did, how does that save murders?

    Your sig is pretty goofed up.

    Cheers,
    Greg