Comments on: When I’m 64 http://www.nobugs.org/blog/archives/2003/07/25/when-im-64/ Thoughts of a software engineer Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:02:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: rps http://www.nobugs.org/blog/archives/2003/07/25/when-im-64/#comment-25 rps Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.nobugs.org/blog/archives/2003/07/25/when-im-64/#comment-25 Given the amount of legacy stuff out there, I'd think we'll all be long dead before viewers for any popular open format are hard to find. If I understand you correctly, and you're keeping all of your files on one hard drive without any backups, you're much more likely to have the drive physically fail and lose your data that way (that happened to me with a brand new IBM drive a few years ago). Given the amount of legacy stuff out there, I’d think we’ll all be long dead before viewers for any popular open format are hard to find. If I understand you correctly, and you’re keeping all of your files on one hard drive without any backups, you’re much more likely to have the drive physically fail and lose your data that way (that happened to me with a brand new IBM drive a few years ago).

]]> By: hgs http://www.nobugs.org/blog/archives/2003/07/25/when-im-64/#comment-26 hgs Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.nobugs.org/blog/archives/2003/07/25/when-im-64/#comment-26 See also http://www.deadmedia.org/ and http://www.longnow.org/ for more thoughts on this. See also
http://www.deadmedia.org/
and
http://www.longnow.org/
for more thoughts on this.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.nobugs.org/blog/archives/2003/07/25/when-im-64/#comment-27 Andrew Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.nobugs.org/blog/archives/2003/07/25/when-im-64/#comment-27 Cool, the longnow.org site is really interesting. What's more, there's a Slashdot story today about this very topic. Spooky! http://slashdot.org/articles/03/07/30/1452249.shtml?tid=126&tid=156 Cool, the longnow.org site is really interesting.

What’s more, there’s a Slashdot story today about this very topic. Spooky!

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/07/30/1452249.shtml?tid=126&tid=156

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