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AMEN!!! Even thwarted the Italian mail service!
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That is quite a feat in and of itself. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif The Italian theory on the way their mail system works is that the mail is still delivered by mule trains and that the mules just wander around until they stumble upon the right destination. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
A nasty truth about digital storage is how POOR it actually is for archiving. Digital disc media, as in DVD's, CD's or even hard drives have an 'archival' life of about 5 years before they start to degrade. Five years is NOT archival, its temporary. Sure it might only start as a missing pixel here and there, not really a big deal. But if it drops a one or a zero in the wrong place you might not be able to even open the file. Don't believe what the industry marketing machines feed the consumer public. Remember the SONY digital tapes (the big reeel to reel jobbies) that were supposed to last twenty years? Well, now SONY admits that their life expectancy for full data retention was really about three months. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
The obvious solution is to continually transfer your 'digital archives' onto newer and newer media. It's also a side step to Moore's Law. However, that begins to introduce generational loss. Once again, no longer archival. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonod.gif
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