Re: Hard-reaped nodes?

Most probably that node is lost forever to the gods of disk-crashes and unreliable back-ups.

I find it a little miracle that the majority of such old posts are still available. I myself have a stack of "old" (= about 5 to 6 years) ATARI-ST floppy disks which I cannot read anymore for (1) lack of an ATARI-ST and (b) lack of a floppy disk drive on present-day computers.

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A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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Re^2: Hard-reaped nodes? by blazar (Canon) on Oct 16, 2007 at 23:29 UTC
I find it a little miracle that the majority of such old posts are still available. I myself have a stack of "old" (= about 5 to 6 years) ATARI-ST floppy disks which I cannot read anymore for (1) lack of an ATARI-ST and (b) lack of a floppy disk drive on present-day computers. I personally believe that I have some floppy disks myself, dating back to my first MS-DOS times, and I have a floppy disk drive on my "main" pc, which incidentally is far from being the "main" one as of late. At one time I made a backup for historic reasons (I doubt I will really look at that stuff again) by copying their contents on a CD. Later on I realized that the Right™ way to do that would have been to fire up Linux and take an image of the disks by dd'ing the device. In some sense one day I think I'll do that, in fact I've been thinking of doing it for years now. Will they still be intact in this moment? ;)	[reply]

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Re^2: Hard-reaped nodes?
by blazar (Canon) on Oct 16, 2007 at 23:29 UTC

I find it a little miracle that the majority of such old posts are still available. I myself have a stack of "old" (= about 5 to 6 years) ATARI-ST floppy disks which I cannot read anymore for (1) lack of an ATARI-ST and (b) lack of a floppy disk drive on present-day computers.

I personally believe that I have some floppy disks myself, dating back to my first MS-DOS times, and I have a floppy disk drive on my "main" pc, which incidentally is far from being the "main" one as of late. At one time I made a backup for historic reasons (I doubt I will really look at that stuff again) by copying their contents on a CD. Later on I realized that the Right™ way to do that would have been to fire up Linux and take an image of the disks by dd'ing the device. In some sense one day I think I'll do that, in fact I've been thinking of doing it for years now. Will they still be intact in this moment? ;)

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