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  • Archive format

    Oct 31, 2020 Archiving File_format

    This isn’t a new problem. If you are going to archive something successfully you need a format that will be accessible for years to come. This is a fundamental concept of anticryptography. It goes way back also. The library of Alexandria was an immense effort that was made possible by a simple format, ink on …

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  • Carving in stone

    Oct 18, 2020 archiving media

    I originally posted a version of this in the summer of 2016. I’m reposting it with some minor edits. A classic way to make something permanent is to carve it in stone. So much so we hold it in our language with phrases like “It isn’t written in stone yet.” Using a chisel and hammer the shapes …

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  • Code is data

    Oct 16, 2020 Programming Archiving

    It used to run… I have seen a number of reports in the media about the aging of source code recently and it has had me thinking. If you can’t run code, whatever relies on it’s execution dies with the code. Sure there is always the option of rewriting the code in a more modern language, but that …

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