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I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by dylan604 »

LarryPage wrote: post #72
dylan604 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Were the "power my car" and "shingle my roof" bits funny? Is this the level of YT videos to get likes?

I just do whatever I want

That's fine, but being a social platform, I assume everyone is a caricature of themselves. Other creators have discussed here the near moronic poster/thumb images getting more clicks vs less overly dramatic versions. So at this point, I assume that the closer to a program that would fit in Idiocracy television programming is the ultimate goal to get those precious likes.

Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by birdyrooster »

game-of-throws wrote: post #59
Retr0id wrote: post #32

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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…

The link you gave is deleted.

Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by LarryPage »

dylan604 wrote: post #81
LarryPage wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just do whatever I want

That's fine, but being a social platform, I assume everyone is a caricature of themselves. Other creators have discussed here the near moronic poster/thumb images getting more clicks vs less overly dramatic versions. So at this point, I assume that the closer to a program that would fit in Idiocracy television programming is the ultimate goal to get those precious likes.

I know it's fine, because they're my videos and I can do whatever I want in them lol

Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by koverstreet »

jewel wrote: post #9
reustle wrote: post #4

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If we hit a lot of random sub folder URLs (that should all 404), would that trigger the webserver to check the drive to see if the file exists and skip the cache?

No. The cache is at the block layer, not the file/directory layer. So the filesystem will look up the directory structure, which will be cached.

Actually, no. There is no general block layer cache - the closest thing is the page cache, which is at the file level.

Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by upwardbound »

q1w2 wrote: post #67
Retr0id wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

hmm... is it possible to correct those errors? I have some old images with errors, and I've always wondered if it were possible to fix the individual corrupted bytes to restore at least the remainder of the photos.

Yes it's possible, the SpaceX subreddit community did that to recover imagery from one of the early rocket landings which was corrupted due to poor antenna alignment between the transmitter on the landing barge and the remote receiver.

Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by dylan604 »

LarryPage wrote: post #84
dylan604 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's fine, but being a social platform, I assume everyone is a caricature of themselves. Other creators have discussed here the near moronic poster/thumb images getting more clicks vs less overly dramatic versions. So at this point, I assume that the closer to a program that would fit in Idiocracy television programming is the ultimate goal to get those precious likes.

I know it's fine, because they're my videos and I can do whatever I want in them lol

okay, so you're not a caricature of yourself and it's really you

Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by game-of-throws »

birdyrooster wrote: post #83
game-of-throws wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The link you gave is deleted.

Thanks, edited. I guess they didn't like all the traffic. Luckily archive.org has a copy too.
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