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Does anyone have probs w/ PMs not sending? i've got one sat in my outbox from last night >:-( noticed in previous corred w/ Griff that sometimes it would take a few hours to go through but i've not had one sit around for this long.

Doesn't a PM sit in your Outbox until collected?

Correct, outbox equals unread in inbox.

Yes, and don't panic. I have one to Amen Brick sitting in my outbox since December 30th, 2008. So one night is nothing.

Oh, and there are another 20 or so in my outbox since I started to invite "lost" forum members to Personalities.oxp. They will be delivered, eventually, if those members decide to log in again. If not, they will slowly rot in my outbox (question to the digital geeks: can bits and bytes decompose? and do they develop a smell after some time? ).

ah right, soz guys that's not how it works on another forum i'm on so i thought something was knackered!

cheers.

Commander McLane wrote:

Yes, and don't panic. I have one to Amen Brick sitting in my outbox since December 30th, 2008. So one night is nothing.

My two oldest are to Sabre (July 2008) and Murgh (October 2008).
Some members are currently not looking at their post that often.

And when I want to send a second post to a member that has still one in my outbox, I sometimes just edit that older message.

Eric Walch wrote:

And when I want to send a second post to a member that has still one in my outbox, I sometimes just edit that older message.

But what if he pops in for five seconds just while you edit the message? Then he will never get it!

Commander McLane wrote:

question to the digital geeks: can bits and bytes decompose? and do they develop a smell after some time?

Oh, yes. Bit rot is a widely recognised problem.

Ahruman wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

question to the digital geeks: can bits and bytes decompose? and do they develop a smell after some time?

Oh, yes. Bit rot is a widely recognised problem.

A potential solution? 1000yrs in my opinion is slightly OTT (as it the price)

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... _000_years

Ahruman wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

question to the digital geeks: can bits and bytes decompose? and do they develop a smell after some time?

Oh, yes. Bit rot is a widely recognised problem.

I'm slightly disappointed. The article didn't mention anything about the smell.

The upside is that I have learned a new word: DLL hell.

Commander McLane wrote:

The upside is that I have learned a new word: DLL hell.

New term? Ah, the beauty of non-windows computers!

Kaks wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

The upside is that I have learned a new word: DLL hell.

New term? Ah, the beauty of non-windows computers!

Probably not. I would rather attribute it to the fact that I am a computer user, not expert.

DaddyHoggy wrote:

Ahruman wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

question to the digital geeks: can bits and bytes decompose? and do they develop a smell after some time? :shock:

Oh, yes. Bit rot is a widely recognised problem.

A potential solution? 1000yrs in my opinion is slightly OTT (as it the price)

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... _000_years

That’s a thousand years under proper archival conditions, which is broadly comparable to really cheap office paper. :-)

Ahruman wrote:

DaddyHoggy wrote:

Ahruman wrote:

Oh, yes. Bit rot is a widely recognised problem.

A potential solution? 1000yrs in my opinion is slightly OTT (as it the price)

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... _000_years

That’s a thousand years under proper archival conditions, which is broadly comparable to really cheap office paper.

True - but you'd require a lot of tree's to make the equivalent worth of paper for the equivalent of 4.7GB of text (So far I've only ever had two of my first ever CD-Rs fail to read 2 from 20 after 9 years - not bad for just being chucked in a box of boxes in normal cyclic room temperature conditions)

oddly, i've had a bunch of laserdiscs fail on me. they were (IIRC) all warner bros ones. when you play them, you get sparkles all over the picture despite the surface of the disc being clean. i did hear something yonks ago about a fungus/algae/mould or something that could grow on the metal film of the disc pressing if it wasn't properly treated/clean before being sealed inside the vinyl discs.