Windows 2000 2 GB file limit

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Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!  At about Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at
10:05:14AM -0500, GCC Consulting blabbed on about:

> Mark,
>
> If I have a chance this weekend I ma try this for you.  One of my clients
> just Junked a P133 and I pulled the hard drive.  I was going to reformat
> the drive.  It is fairly new and would will make a good spare or maybe
> I'll install it into one of those USB kits.  Any way, I won't mind seeing
> what will happen.

Will be interesting to see what happens.  Suggestion:  Bring a welding mask
and wear it, just in case.  :)

> As an aside, the NY Time had an article on the front page about something
> I have been railing about for a long time.  How to archive all of this
> digital information people have been accumulating.  It seems that the
> Library of Congress has a couple of committees trying to come up with
> some sort of standard so that in 10 years, 20 years, etc, there will be
> devices that will be able to read this stored information.
>
> As the pointed out, a faded picture or ink document can be read; a
> degraded writable CD or a scratched cd can be unreadable and useless.

Ah, the old Rosetta Stone argument.  That's been raging for ages, albeit at
a low simmer with occasional periods of high boil.  The -whole- argument
isn't just about what storage medium to use that won't degrade, but how to
ensure than people would also be able to figure out how to access the
information without posessing that technology yet...say, 100 years from now
if there was a nuclear war tomorrow.  Like the plans in Sagan's "Contact",
it should somehow lend itself to deciphering how it works--you know,
because you'd want the instructions stored on the same indelible media.

And there was an article a month or two ago about some complete nutcase
(IMHO) that wanted to archive the data and store it on the moon, of all
places, so it would be safe for survivors in just such an event.  Dude, if
we end up in that situation, GETTING there will be a low priority.  He was
made out like a real visionary, and apparently he's a well-known and even
respected figure in his circles, but the idea has zero common-sense value in
my eyes.  Neat concept perhaps, but not practical.

mark->
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