Slashdot has this article on archiving, on which subject I already had my thoughts. As always, the nice info is to be found in the comments. Alioth pretty much sums it up for me in his comment, when he suspects that the late 20th century and early 21st century will become a mini-dark ages (at […]

If you completely forget everything I just explained, please remember one extremely important fact. It does not make sense to have a string without knowing what encoding it uses. You can no longer stick your head in the sand and pretend that “plain” text is ASCII.

RAID protects against disk failures. It’s not a backup.

“Tell me, Grandpa, what was it like in the days of IPv4?” young Suzy asked as she played with the IP wireless transmitters in her golden locks of hair.

“Well Suzy,” Grandpa said, his mind on the distant past, “back then we only had 32 bit addressing, and much of it was provisioned out to various regional entities, with large corporate interests sitting on whole chunks of the space. We had these things called NAT routers.”