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Re: digital dark age
by LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:15 pm
i remember reading about this and getting spooked that we wouldn't be able to recover important shit from government/organization servers and databases and the like
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Re: digital dark age
by ammer Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:16 pm
incredibleA famous real example is with NASA, whose early space records have suffered from a Dark Age issue more than once. For over a decade, magnetic tapes from the 1976 Viking Mars landing were unprocessed. When later analyzed, the data was unreadable as it was in an unknown format and the original programmers had either died or left NASA. The images were eventually extracted following many months of puzzling through the data and examining how the recording machines functioned.[5]
this is why we have universal standards, soon enough .doc files from 2002 won't be readable because the fuckin format gets fucked up with every word release
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by ammer Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:17 pm
the only one that would be a real issue would be tape archives since they use some funny formats (and their r/w is slow as balls)ozzie freedom wrote:i remember reading about this and getting spooked that we wouldn't be able to recover important shit from government/organization servers and databases and the like
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Re: digital dark age
by ammer Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:44 pm
'open sours' has nothing to do with this nerdspinnythings wrote:another reason to go for open source
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by Guest Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:46 pm
atheist annihilator wrote:'open sours' has nothing to do with this nerdspinnythings wrote:another reason to go for open source
One approach is open source, where the source code for reading and writing a file format is open. In 2007 the chief information officer of the UK's National Archives stated "We welcome open-source software because it makes our lives easier".[14]
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Re: digital dark age
by ammer Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:49 pm
open sours is useful in that usually every release gets archived whereas finding legacy copies of ms word or steam is a pain in the ass but it has nothing to do with the software licennse in the endspinnythings wrote:atheist annihilator wrote:'open sours' has nothing to do with this nerdspinnythings wrote:another reason to go for open sourceOne approach is open source, where the source code for reading and writing a file format is open. In 2007 the chief information officer of the UK's National Archives stated "We welcome open-source software because it makes our lives easier".[14]
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Re: digital dark age
by ammer Mon Aug 26, 2013 4:14 am
this doesnt seem like a major issue anymore though since everything is standardized
this was a relevant concern back in the 70s because basically all software was in-house
this was a relevant concern back in the 70s because basically all software was in-house
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by ammer Mon Aug 26, 2013 4:37 am
ex the software used to read and write the tapes at NASA were probably made by NASA employees and never saw the light of the outside worldatheist annihilator wrote:this doesnt seem like a major issue anymore though since everything is standardized
this was a relevant concern back in the 70s because basically all software was in-house
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