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Topic: Bit rot

	jargon, node: software rot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		software rot /n./ Term used to describe the tendency of software that has not been used in a while to lose; such failure may be semi-humorously ascribed to bit rot.
		For example, owing to endemic shortsightedness in the design of COBOL programs, most will succumb to software rot when their 2-digit year counters wrap around at the beginning of the year 2000.
		Historical note: Software rot in an even funnier sense than the mythical one was a real problem on early research computers (e.g., the R1; see grind crank).
	www.jargon.net /jargonfile/s/softwarerot.html (311 words)

	Jargon 4.2, node: bit rot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The theory explains that bits decay as if they were radioactive.
		The notion long favored among hackers that cosmic rays are among the causes of such events turns out to be a myth; see the cosmic rays entry for details.
		Software rot is the effect, bit rot the notional cause.
	www.science.uva.nl /~mes/jargon/b/bitrot.html (99 words)

	Bit Rot
		This describes the loss of data due to any one of a number of phenomena but is typified by the inability of today's generation of computer systems to read the product of yesterday's and the extension of this to anything digital, including recordings of audio and video.
		For the purposes of this topic, the point to note is that compression is actually a special form of encryption, and encryption is what DRM is all about.
		So what happens when all of the history of a period is recorded digitally in a form that is subject to bit rot of some sort, and the form cannot for some reason be "re-cast" in newer media or recovered with any reasonable effort from original media at some far point in the future?
	richard.pacdat.net /DRM/bit-rot.htm (1588 words)

	Bit Rot
		But soon I left to mingle a bit and talk with the British folks.
		I think the others were a bit perturbed.
		Came in and watched a bit of TV in the wee hours before drifting off to sleep (ask me about the EuroVision competition).
	www.unc.edu /~jmspille/2004_05_01_archive.shtml (2974 words)

	Bit Rot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Magnetic media (such as hard drives) also suffers from bit rot as the magnetic domains weaken over time.
		Those definitions of BitRot are ok, but not all that scary - the scary kind is the BitRot that affects source code - you grab the copy, compile it, and it doesn't work, even though the CM system shows no changes to the source files.
		For example, a faulty motherboard can damage RAM causing bits to fail; this might not necessarily be noticeable for a while, but in due course it can render a system unusable.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?BitRot (379 words)

	bit rot
		Not ultimately fast because you unrolled every loop kind of algorithms, but algorithms that are fast because they take advantage of some fundamental mathematical quality.
		The cool thing about it is that it can be readily adapted to be list-processing friendly, so it turns out to be not only fast, but pretty easy to write in a list-friendly language.
		He eventually came to work for me, and while he gives me credit for teaching him a bit, I must also give him credit for opening my eyes to a lot of new things.
	bitrot.org (2518 words)

	Atari 5200 Multicart question - AtariAge Forums
		EEPROMs, EPROMs, and modern PROMs are all subject to bit rot.
		Also, we are gauging bit rot based on old EPROMS, it's quite possible that newer EPROMS will take even longer to suffer bit-rot.
		After years of being a hobby electronics guy, learning a bit as I go, I'm finally going for an associate degree (and maybe more), so I'll know more about this stuff in the future (I know this is more on the programming side, but maybe I'll make my own burners...).
	www.atariage.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=182 (1130 words)

	blarg?: Comment on Bit Rot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The important thing here is not "can I see the files." I would not have gone on for pages about this if all you needed to do was open a command prompt and fire up xcopy.
		The binary format would only be a thing if we're talking about seriously ancient stuff, but it isn't insurmountable (I'm pretty sure you can still load up a.out support).
		The support libs would be a little bit of an adventure, but wouldn't be impossible unless there was some kind of kernel API madness.
	off.net /m-t/__mt-comments-flurp.cgi?entry_id=4265 (537 words)

	***Dave :: Bit Rot
		No, that sounds a bit pretentious, I know, but I was a history major in college (Medieval and Reformation Europe, to be precise; my thesis was on Erasmus).
		Internet links have a distinct lifetime, before “bit rot” sets in, and they bring up someone’s amusing 404 message, indicating that the file, directory, or server cannot be found.
		Sometimes times bit rots but sometimes it goes on for a long, long time.
	www.hill-kleerup.org /blog/mtarchive/003890.html (991 words)

	bit rot » Blog Archive » Little languages, Ruby, and eager evaluation
		bit rot » Blog Archive » Little languages, Ruby, and eager evaluation
		I’m in the middle of putting together a distributed test driver.
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	bitrot.org /2005/11/18/little-languages-ruby-and-eager-evaluation (574 words)

	boycott-riaa.com - Article: Are our Liberties Suffering from "Bit Rot"
		I've actually had "bit rot" happen on programs that I haven't used in a long time.
		Over time, even though the laws hadn't changed, people would start to lose the ability to speak out due to not only habit, but societal pressures.
		The point here is, that with all the external pressures increasing to bring pressure on people NOT to speak out, not to trade files / use P2P, that, a sort of virtual societal bit rot could happen.
	www.boycott-riaa.com /article/12199 (552 words)

	Jim O’Halloran’s Weblog » Blog Archive » More on Windows Rot
		Today, its ok, in a months time my PC will use a lot more RAM to do exactly the same things, and in six months time it will use much more again.
		The more installation/uninstallation of software you do, the less time it takes before the rot sets in.
		Perhaps insted of agressively “dogfooding” every new beta of each successive OS internally Microsoft should run some machines to death in normal use then have the developers tear the OS apart bit by bit once it has gone rotten.
	www.jimohalloran.com /2003/04/22/more-on-windows-rot (456 words)

	Question about Bit Rot and Lynx Games - AtariAge Forums
		I've been steadily expanding my Lynx collection, but I have been wondering about the effects of Bit rot over time.
		From: Baltimore, MD I think the original, commercial games are ROMs (basically ASICs of a simple sort) and aren't subject to bit rot, although I could stand corrected.
		(Anyone?) EPROMs are subject to bit rot, i.e.
	www.atariage.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=21097 (598 words)

	American Scientist Online - Bit Rot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That's disturbing news, and yet I suspect that relatively few disks or tapes have yet died of old age.
		Long before the disk wears out or succumbs to bit rot, the machine that reads the disk has become a museum piece.
		So the immediate challenge is not preserving the information but preserving the means to get at it.
	www.americanscientist.org /amsci/issues/Comsci98/compsci1998-09.html (597 words)

	LWN: Red Hat Enterprise 3 bit rot: spamassassin
		LWN: Red Hat Enterprise 3 bit rot: spamassassin
		I have to disagree with your assessment of spamassassin in Red Hat Enterprise 3 as "bit rot".
		Please note that I am not suggesting that you are expected to agree with me. One of the great strengths of Linux is the diversity of offerings available.
	lwn.net /Articles/139459 (522 words)

	Ono Sendai » Blog Archive » Bit Rot - 10.12.05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ono Sendai » Blog Archive » Bit Rot - 10.12.05
		I need to add a reminder in Backpack so I don’t forget though…
		Bit Rot - 10.12.05 was posted on Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 at 12:46 am and is filed under General.
	onosendai.info /2005/10/12/bit-rot-101205 (127 words)

	LinkMonkey.net: Bit Rot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It's like downloading a little bit of Zen to your computer.
		Women Accused of 'Hot Dog' Prostitution - "Two Long Island women who sold hot dogs and sodas from a truck were arrested on charges that their menu also featured sexual acts in exchange for money."...
		Police Say Man Bit Off Co-Worker's Ear - "After telling Jefferson to return the money, police said, Tran held a pen to Jefferson's stomach.
	www.linkmonkey.net /archives/2005/01/bit_rot.shtml (577 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		y:==so:)) return 1; return 0; } if (bit) { rot if (direc=='>' && (ea:ready
		ea:direc=='>' && ea:bit=='.') bit='.'; } else if (ready) { if (gate=='&') { result=1; over each other y: if (PointAtMe(y:)) result = result & (y:bit-'0'); } else if (gate=='') { result=0; over each other y: if (PointAtMe(y:)) result = result
		' && we:bit) bit=we:bit; else rot if (RightBridge(we:, direc)==0 && we:direc=='>' && we:bit) { if (direc=='=') direc='H'; else if (direc=='H') direc='='; } }
	www.complex.iastate.edu /download/Trend/examples/adder.rule (115 words)

	Data Fidelity and Bit Rot at ebyblog
		You can get quite a bit of data out, presuming you know how.
		I’ve found it similarly frustrating tracking down quality documentation for some of the various library formats.
		One Response to “Data Fidelity and Bit Rot”
	blog.ryaneby.com /archives/data-fidelity-and-bit-rot (545 words)

	Bit Rot Reviews
		This isn't noise music, to be clear -- it's a mass of ambient dub, with excellent spacing and clear vision for where each track is going.
		The first track, "Null Hypothesis," begins with only a reverb-drenched guitar, and seems like it will be progressing in that vein...but slowly, the tone of that guitar begins to shift into a synth tone with just a little bit of grit.
		So check it out, at Archive.org -- full-sized cover art, the whole bit.
	bitrotreviews.blogspot.com (7302 words)

	HP Labs - Features - Featured inventor - Robert Tansley : Beating "bit rot"
		If a kid says, "I want a toy car," give him some Lego and tell him to make a car.
		When I was a kid, I'd get the Lego sets and follow the instructions once, but what I really liked was after that, when I'd take all the bits in my massive box of Lego and use that to make all manner of other things.
		My favorite was a more or less functioning cable car.
	www.hpl.hp.com /features/featured_inventors/robert_tansley.html (1165 words)

	SmileS - Faves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Of all the x-feelies bands, these guys are farthest from being my cup of meat, but they still beat most bands hands down.
		I've seen them live bunches, and if they rocked just a little bit more, I'd no doubt love em to pieces.
		They've got a CD out and their label, Delmore, has got some info on them.
	www.xnet2.com /neslon/music/faves/faves.html (1551 words)

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