____/ [H]omer on Friday 29 June 2007 07:14 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> ____/ [H]omer on Thursday 28 June 2007 16:16 : \____
>>
>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Rex Ballard spake thusly:
>>>
>>>> I have it on 6250 BPI tape, QIC-150 tape, and Exabyte 8MM tape. I
>>>> don't have hardware to read any of these devices. Anybody know of a
>>>> firm in New Jersey that can do Media Conversion? I think I was quoted
>>>> $250 at one time.
>>> Contact Google; they'll do it for you.
>>
>> That's what I thought as well. Heck, they might even give you some free
>> hardware in return.
>
> Like you said earlier, Google will undoubtedly consider this missing
> data quite valuable, so I'm sure they'd have no problem recovering the
> data from any media.
Unless it's OOXML-formatted. :-)
> It'd be interesting to know who besides Google has old Usenet archives.
> I'd bet there's a few academic institutions out there somewhere that do.
You might find the following interesting:
Deja Googled
,----[ Quote ]
| Google was, thus, compelled to offer free access to the CONTENT of the
| Deja archives to alternative (non-Google) archiving systems. But it
| remains mum on the search programming code and the user interface.
| Already one such open source group (called Dela News) is coalescing,
| although it is not clear who will bear the costs of the gigantic
| storage and processing such a project would require. Dela wants to
| have a physical copy of the archive deposited in trust with a dot org.
`----
http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=2933&cid=1&sid=112
Maybe this open source-type effort will do to Deja News what Web Archive
(Wayback Time Machine or whatever) did to the Web (as we used to know it,
before stuff got Googled (proper indexing) and then censored.
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/05/21/yahoo-sponsors-google/
I can't recall if I discovered the Web Archive back in 2003-04 or only when
that comment first showed up. Groklaw makes extensive use of it to recover old
documents, including stuff that Microsoft is trying to hide. Please keep that
mirror of Comes vs Microsoft exhibits alive. I have got hundreds of pages
linking to PDFs in that mirror.
--
~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | make install -not war
http://Schestowitz.com | Open Prospects | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
Tasks: 118 total, 1 running, 117 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
http://iuron.com - knowledge engine, not a search engine
|
|
