Computer Science

Glenn Reynolds says: Digital images are potentially immortal, so long as they get recopied from time to time onto fresh media, but reality being what it is, hardcopy in a shoebox is probably likely to outlast things that require actual human effort. What effort? Hard drive technology improves so fast that every time I get a new computer I just copy the entire … [Read more...] about Digital Immortality

Virgina Postrel's laptop just got soaked and appears to be dead. I'm something of a computer geek, and several friends have come to me with just this problem. I know what to do about this, but the knowledge is apparently useless: everybody first tries turning the computer on to see if it will work. This usually fries something. So, for anybody who hasn't yet soaked … [Read more...] about Soggy Computers