Well, that's the outcome when you mix superstition with technology... So let's sort this out...
REH wrote: > It was an exceptional voice teacher friend who paid his way through > college working on computers and building them for the college, that alerted > me to the bit-rot issue when my computer crashed. As we built it back > file by file, he made me check all of the files that were copied for errors. > You could actually see it in the pictures. Jpeg degrades badly. PNG less > so. In texts, some are the simple change of a letter in a word. > Sometimes punctuation would change or caps. You probably meant that the "registry" was damaged and the files had to be restored. That's a system flaw of M$ operating systems, but certainly not inherent to computer technology in general. Even on M$ systems, it is avoidable (by doing backups, as I had told you long ago). I have been using computers of all kinds of systems since 1981, and I have never lost a single byte of data, despite viruses etc., with the sole exception of an incredibly insidious and idiotic bug introduced by Steven Jobs, who actually managed to DELETE ALL photos ON A CAMERA before download, after Jobs' "uncrashable" Mac-OSuX had crashed! > My friend said sometimes numbers change. He told me that the > banks do regular multiple backups of their data because the data is so > malleable. See, he told you the same as I did: Backups are the key. But not because numbers magically change -- it's because harddisks and bad filesystems sometimes crash. > I now do one back up a week and could use more. Many clients who are > wealthy CEOs of companies, will not do their banking on the internet because > of the problem of bit-rot that connects things that shouldn't be connected. Rather, they fear hackers. > In my fifty years of watching the flim-flam of technology and the economic > productivity system it has become clear to me that this is all about people > creating situations where they can move money from one group to another > group. There is little real progress and a lot of serious real disruption > of lives and culture. Actually, that's a classic example of Predators messing up a Producer domain. But you blame it on Producers (their technology)! Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
