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One Blog. Defending against the Digital Dark Age. On putting old software out to pasture. April 7th, 2014 by Isaiah Beard. Tomorrow marks an important milestone in the lifecycle of computer software, and should be a day of concern for perhaps hundreds of millions of computer users worldwide. April 8, 2014 is the final day that Microsoft will provide extended support. For its aging Windows XP. Or even older systems. With a modern computer, Windows XP and the. In other words, a high-end. Windows 8.1 co...
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From Page2Pixel» Blog Archive » When copiers aren’t copying as they should…
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One Blog. Defending against the Digital Dark Age. When copiers aren’t copying as they should…. August 12th, 2013 by Isaiah Beard. Over the past week, there has been a great deal of buzz in the IT community about a discovery by a researcher in Germany that certain Xerox Workcentre copy/scan stations are altering the content of documents scanned to PDF. In particular, attention has been focused on the Xerox WorkCentre 7535 and 7556. There are still points of contention, however. What’s this all about...
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One Blog. Defending against the Digital Dark Age. On putting old software out to pasture. Apr 7th, 2014 by Isaiah Beard. Tomorrow marks an important milestone in the lifecycle of computer software, and should be a day of concern for perhaps hundreds of millions of computer users worldwide. April 8, 2014 is the final day that Microsoft will provide extended support. For its aging Windows XP. Read the rest of this entry ». Vintage and Analog Formats. About this Blog / Contact the Author. DCC Digital Curati...
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From Page2Pixel » Vintage and Analog Formats
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One Blog. Defending against the Digital Dark Age. Floppy disks and modern gadgets: Keeping a safe distance. Mar 25th, 2016 by Isaiah Beard. Never do this: smartphones can be deadly to magnetically stored data in some circumstances. In my dealings with preserving older, born-digital documents and data, I’ve run into this situation quite often: Someone comes into the DCRC. With a 3.5″ floppy disk. They’re holding the floppy disk(s) being brought in, or rather, what people commonly hold those old disks.
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From Page2Pixel » compression
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One Blog. Defending against the Digital Dark Age. When copiers aren’t copying as they should…. Aug 12th, 2013 by Isaiah Beard. Over the past week, there has been a great deal of buzz in the IT community about a discovery by a researcher in Germany that certain Xerox Workcentre copy/scan stations are altering the content of documents scanned to PDF. In particular, attention has been focused on the Xerox WorkCentre 7535 and 7556. About this Blog / Contact the Author. Vintage and Analog Formats. Association...
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From Page2Pixel » Worst Practices
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One Blog. Defending against the Digital Dark Age. Floppy disks and modern gadgets: Keeping a safe distance. Mar 25th, 2016 by Isaiah Beard. Never do this: smartphones can be deadly to magnetically stored data in some circumstances. In my dealings with preserving older, born-digital documents and data, I’ve run into this situation quite often: Someone comes into the DCRC. With a 3.5″ floppy disk. They’re holding the floppy disk(s) being brought in, or rather, what people commonly hold those old disks.
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From Page2Pixel» Blog Archive » Civil rights and Activism in the Digital Age
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One Blog. Defending against the Digital Dark Age. Civil rights and Activism in the Digital Age. January 21st, 2015 by Isaiah Beard. Civil Right marches, then and now. Left: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Joachim Prinz pictured, 1963. Right: Protestors demonstrating down West Florissant Ave in Ferguson MO on August 14, 2014. In the past, I have written about ways to “ keep you stuff safe. Police use of force on protestors, then and now. Left: Photojournalist Bill...
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From Page2Pixel » Microsoft
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One Blog. Defending against the Digital Dark Age. On putting old software out to pasture. Apr 7th, 2014 by Isaiah Beard. Tomorrow marks an important milestone in the lifecycle of computer software, and should be a day of concern for perhaps hundreds of millions of computer users worldwide. April 8, 2014 is the final day that Microsoft will provide extended support. For its aging Windows XP. Read the rest of this entry ». Vintage and Analog Formats. About this Blog / Contact the Author. DCC Digital Curati...
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From Page2Pixel » computer
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One Blog. Defending against the Digital Dark Age. On putting old software out to pasture. Apr 7th, 2014 by Isaiah Beard. Tomorrow marks an important milestone in the lifecycle of computer software, and should be a day of concern for perhaps hundreds of millions of computer users worldwide. April 8, 2014 is the final day that Microsoft will provide extended support. For its aging Windows XP. Read the rest of this entry ». Vintage and Analog Formats. Keeping Your Stuff Safe, Part 2: the Local Route. The ba...
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From Page2Pixel» Blog Archive » Library of Congress releases recommended format specifications
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One Blog. Defending against the Digital Dark Age. Library of Congress releases recommended format specifications. June 24th, 2014 by Isaiah Beard. Or deferring to specifications already developed by other institutions or partnerships. As a result, while there is some general consensus about what we should be doing, there are occasionally differences and disagreements here and there. A blog post discussing the recommendations has also been posted. Including an acknowledgement by Ted Westervelt, the head o...
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