Google is not the answer: How the digital age imperils history "It’s important that much of the information we create is ephemeral. Otherwise, the world will become far too cluttered." from http://www.salon.com
Category: Digital
broad category dealing with anything digital
Are you ready for a disaster?
EARTHQUAKE Yesterday an earthquake shook southern California. It was centered roughly 7 miles from where I live and weighed in around 5.4, so I definitely felt it. It lasted about 10 seconds (reports say 30) and though nothing in my house fell off shelves it did a pretty good dance. Less than a minute isn't … Continue reading Are you ready for a disaster?
Massive file transfer
The other day, as part of some information engineering I was doing, I needed to ingest a folder of high quality Tiff files. The combined size of all the files was 35GB. I had brought my trusty WD Passport external hard drive and figured I’d just dump them from the host computer onto there. Once … Continue reading Massive file transfer
John Trendler 