Disasters and Recovery

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Wed Jan 20 08:31:22 1999

> > What makes some of today's technology fragile is simply the density, or
> > equivalenty, the lack of redundancy in a given area.

Take a look at the specification for how CDs are formatted. You may be
suprised to find out that a good chunck (more than just a few percent) is
dedicated to error correction! That is why you do not hear all of the
scratches in poorly handled CDs.

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Wed Jan 20 1999 - 08:31:22 GMT