RAID + dm-integrity vs bit rot

In Building the perfect, cheap NAS I discuss bit rot which silently kills digital archives; my solution chosen back then builds on parchive which adds in a manual process redundancy to archives. This redundancy can be used to identify and correct bit rot to some extent. The issue with this approach is that it's manual … Continue reading RAID + dm-integrity vs bit rot →

Plausible Science Fiction is anticlimactic

We come for the star ships but we stay for the alien cultures.I Sci-Fi is about ideas Science Fiction takes place in a setting of great scientific advancements. That is usually, but not necessarily ("a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away") the future. This is a future of intelligent machines, powerful weapons … Continue reading Plausible Science Fiction is anticlimactic →