The Impermanence Of Things

The Impermanence Of Things

Two things still very imperfectly managed by all the shiny available technology:

Long term data storage with integrity checks, and association and indexing of meta-data.

Some of this is just plain hard, like version checking and sync. Some of it is just plain boring, and thus left as an exercise to lesser beings.

However, the further we go down the path of digitization, the more it matters. The fact that so little is being done about it?

Among other things, it means I don't trust the Wisdom of Silicon Valley. They ain't got none.

Originally shared by Edward Morbius

Cobbler's Child: Reripping the CDs, as you do

...25-year-old CDs should be assumed to have decayed into dust. I distrusted the silver buggers from day one. You can see the music on vinyl. Pure digital files are the essence of information as its own construct. The silver buggers were a misbegotten Frankensteinian construct, in denial of the natural flow of digital patterns. (So glad the record companies didn’t think of DRM in time.)...



https://rocknerd.co.uk/2018/06/12/reripping-the-cds-as-you-do/
https://rocknerd.co.uk/2018/06/12/reripping-the-cds-as-you-do/

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  1. Geo. TirebiterJune 12, 2018 at 8:20 PM

    Tried to reinstall some programs on old cd's into my new computer, I do website maintenance for my old military unit but I was using Dreamweaver 2004. My new computer does not seem to recognize the CD. Uh-oh. The programs I have on portable HD's work fine. The old CD's from early 2000's don't. Yaikes.

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