Unix vs NT (&backups, etc. - random boomarks)

From: Eric D. Pierce <PierceED_at_csus.edu>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 17:08:01 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.002FB78F.20010507165525@fatcity.com>

random stuff from an old archive bookmark file:

http://www.oreview.com/9805harr.htm

( http://home.mira.net/~gharriso )

-

(general technology issues in "Digital Preservation":)

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/rothenberg/contents.html

---excerpt---

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/rothenberg/scope.html#technical

...Media obsolescence manifests itself in several ways: the medium

     itself disappears from the market; appropriate drives capable of
     reading the medium are no longer produced; and media-accessing
     programs (device drivers) capable of controlling the drives and
     deciphering the encodings used on the medium are no longer
     written for new computers. Upgrading to a new computer system
     therefore often requires abandoning an old storage medium, even if
     an organization still has documents stored on that medium.

     The dual problems of short media lifetime and rapid obsolescence
     have led to the nearly universal recognition that digital information
     must be copied to new media (refreshed) on a very short cycle
     (every few years). Copying is a straightforward solution to these
     media problems, though it is not trivial: in particular, the copy
     process must avoid corrupting documents via compression,
     encryption, or changing data formats.

...

5.2 Digital documents are inherently software-dependent

     Though media problems are far from trivial, they are but the tip of
     the iceberg. Far more problematic is the fact that digital documents
     are in general dependent on application software to make them
     accessible and meaningful. Copying media correctly at best
     ensures that the original bit stream of a digital document will be
     preserved. But a stream of bits cannot be made self-explanatory,
     any more than hieroglyphics were self-explanatory for the 1,300
     years before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone. A bit stream (like
     any stream of symbols) can represent anything: not just text but
     also data, imagery, audio, video, animated graphics, and any other
     form or format, current or future, singly or combined in a
     hypermedia lattice of pointers whose formats themselves may be
     arbitrarily complex and idiosyncratic. Without knowing what is
     intended, it is impossible to decipher such a stream.

...

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http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/1190/oracle/ORACLE_NT_CONFIG.pdf

http://www.ipass.net/~davesisk/oont.htm

http://www.geocities.com/tbcox23/

http://www.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/00-Mar/index.html?o20rec.html

(from one of the Oracle guys at amazon.com:)

http://www.speakeasy.org/~jwilton/hot-backup.html

ftp://oracle-ftp.oracle.com/dev_tools/patchsets/Installer/32bit/

ftp://oracle-ftp.oracle.com/server/patchsets/wgt_tech/server/windowsNT/

ftp://oracle-ftp.oracle.com/dev_tools/patchsets/Installer/32bit/

http://www.swynk.com/friends/perron/wakeup.asp

http://www.swynk.com/friends/szabo/dbvisiogen.asp

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