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Seems like the bitrot is kicking in already. The main JPEG appears to have bitflip errors: http://totallynormalwebsite.ddns.net/megafloppy.jpg This is what I get, when I download the full image and convert to PNG: https://i.imgur.com/JF4wtMg.png During the conversion (with imagemagick), I get these errors: convert: Corrupt JPEG data: premature end of data segment `megafloppy.jpg' @ warning/jpeg.c/JPEGWarningHandler/4…
I managed to grab a (hopefully) uncorrupted version somehow. I'm putting it somewhere other than imgur so they don't recompress the image. MD5 d30fcc384a8e2de4fab3056bde42b00b. [EDIT: Removed dead link, use archive.org instead] > I'd be curious to know what failure mode(s) conjured the 0xf6's into existence. Today's fun fact: The MS-DOS `format` command fills the disk with 0xf6, not 0x00. Though this is linux running…
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A Knoppix 4 CTF doesn't sound too challenging, tbf mate edit: thinking about it, there's some good educational value, but maybe via vm than plopped on the interwebs :D
Do people do cyberpunk or sci-fi LARPs? An extravagantly unpatched server running on a raspberry pi or something like that would be a kind of fun prop.
You're playing with fire using RAID0. If I had data on 30 floppy drives, I'd want at least 20 of them to be parity drives.
Seems like the bitrot is kicking in already. The main JPEG appears to have bitflip errors: http://totallynormalwebsite.ddns.net/megafloppy.jpg This is what I get, when I download the full image and convert to PNG: https://i.imgur.com/JF4wtMg.png During the conversion (with imagemagick), I get these errors: convert: Corrupt JPEG data: premature end of data segment `megafloppy.jpg' @ warning/jpeg.c/JPEGWarningHandler/4…
I can hear that dying from here. Anyone want to try RAID0 on QIC tapes?
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Probably quieter than the DL360 I bought a few months ago and put on eBay after two hours :)
Oh, is that the one with like 10 1" fans spinning at 8,000 RPM, so that it sounds like a Harrier jet coming in for a landing?