- Well, I found it ages ago, its still online and even got updated:
- Holy moly. I didnt know that there were so many of them. I knew only y2k problem and 2038 Unix Epoch sign overflow.
Anyway, I think that making Unix epoch signed was one of the biggest mistakes in that case. When you design stuff that cannot live for at least 100 years, you do it wrong imo.
Having Unix TS unsigned 32bit, problem would surface in 2106. Probably most system would be 64bit by that date and so the Unix TS itself.
I recently had to fix this bug in my software. Now I store file TS as 48bit unsigned unix TS. Should be enough for livespan of that civilization ;)
- Yeah, except the site hosting the blog is bloated to hell. What a times...
- ST3144A! Damn, I still have that disk. Not sure why :) I bought it with my very first PC in 93. AMD 386DX40, 2MB RAM and 120MB Seagate HDD :)
- Ahh, I remember I had Abit motherboard for my P3 system. It was called Abit SA-6. It lasted around 10 years, then I started to had problems with IDE controller, random freezes on I/O that lasted several seconds, so I had to buy new system.
- DOOOOM!! :)
- Imo the tapes are best long term storage medium. You can easly get around 25 years of storage from a tape. Unfortunately streamers are expensive and hard to use. I always toyed about buying a streamer for my data... Ended up hoarding HDDs...
But if we speak about 100s of years.. Hmmm, unsolved stuff..
- And you have to preserve the mechanism that wrote the tape. Eg. LTO-8 drives can read LTO-7 and LTO-8 tape, but not LTO-6 tape.
I have a complicated relationship with LTO, QIC and QIC mini. Mostly it works but it senses fear like printers …
- Right... You basically need to move data too to newer format.. Ill stay with my HDDs ;) (for now).
- For hard drives that are powered off for a long time "stiction" is a real concern. Yes I know, parked heads and all that, but powered off HDs for many years with varying temps/humidity gives my nether region a pucker thinking of the data loss
- Yeah.. I store them at home, so temp is 23-28 deg. Usually in those plastic little boxes there were sold in. I know they will eventually fail. I just do NOT have cheap reliable option to store backups. Those disks are leftover of upgrades, like.. 20GB, 120GB, 320GB, 1TB :) Some are reused in cheap USB ext cases that have IDE/SATA connectors.
- Ohh, because Windows was pretty much single user machine. Even NT. Imagine that up to Win2003, Filesystem Cache is not really shared. Every user logged in into system have its own FileSystem cache view (with rights cached in). Imaging how inefficient it is :). Except that, for single user experience, its very solid OS. I still use Win2003 actually.
- Yeah. Im kinda retro here too. Im very network oriented so I cannot go back to certain level. But give me P3, 256MB RAM and vioala.. I can run Linux or Win2000 :)
- Yeah, Win2000 was very decent. I was running it for long 10 years on my P3 800 and 512MB (then 1024MB) of RAM. Until build in mobo IDE controller started to failing, so I had to upgrade to i5-760. And so, I also upgraded to Win2003 :)
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