My most treasured possessionWhat's your most treasured possession? What would you rescue from a fire (be it for sentimental or purely financial reasons)?
My Great-Uncle left me his visitors book which along with boring people like the Queen and Harold Wilson has Spike Milligan's signature in it. It's all loopy.
Either that or my Grandfather's swords.
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chthonic, Thu 8 May 2008, 12:38)
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Preserving digital data.One way of doing it is to make a backup of your CDs/DVDs. Periodically, you check both copies of your media, and if any contain read-errors, you make a copy of the good copy and turn the bad copy into a psychedelic frisbee. If you're worried about both copies going bad at the same time, make a third copy and store it in a far away place. One way to do this is to copy the entire medium to your hard-drive and check for read-errors, but I'm wondering if there's a program that just checks the integrity of the medium without making a copy?
I've heard that professionally produced CD-ROMs are supposed to last in the 50-100 year range, but CD-Rs about 5. Not sure about DVDs or BDs.
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mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 14 May 2008, 11:44,
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