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Derrida

2885 Posts

October 23 2012 16:54 GMT

#21

Bobo_XIII

United States429 Posts

October 23 2012 18:41 GMT

#22

I like reading your blogs and comments, Chef. Your name is one of the few on this website I can associate some semblance of personality to, and one of the fewer I can say I legitimately respect. You're a thoughtful and clever person, and I want to lightly caress your cheek. I mean shake your hand.

This was a great and relatable blog.

r.Evo

Germany14054 Posts

October 23 2012 19:06 GMT

#23

On October 23 2012 12:30 endy wrote:
I can imagine some archaeologist in a thousand years, exploring your drive, finding this .rep file that you obviously hid in a special location, figuring out what it is, gathering a team of experts to write code to run the file with the hope of making a ground breaking discovery, and after years of hard work, watching in disbelief a shit load of SCV circling around a command center.

Considering how our archaeology works today it will most likely be called "some sort of cult thing", that's what we do whenever we can't explain things.

"The people around the time back then worshipped small virtual creatures gathering minerals and gas, supposedly symbolizing their economic struggle. Entire countries have been developed to glorify those little virtual things."

snively

United States1159 Posts

October 23 2012 23:22 GMT

#24

eheheh i liked the last pic
kind of cuute

shizaep

Canada2920 Posts

October 24 2012 01:04 GMT

#25

I remember when I was playing SC2 heavily, sometimes I'd hit up games against the computer just to practice my macro, right?

And I'd set the enemy AI to "very easy" and 50% handicap. Then I would go on just to practice my builds and not give a shit about the AI.

Except sometimes, I'd get bored and start fantasizing that I'm playing against NaDa or something like that. I frantically micro my units all around the damn map. I'd be like "HOLY FUCKING SHIIIT!!! THERE'S A DOUBLE DROP IN MY MAIN" and I'd run away all of my workers and bring some of my army back. Then I'd be like "WHAT DAFAQ!!! MY THIRD IS UNDER ATTACK!! THAT NADA'S MULTITASKING!!! FUCK!!" and I'd go defend it. And I'd actually snipe my own third with my own units and try to rebuild it elsewhere. The whole time I'd be running my units all over the damn map.

In the end, all my units would be dead, my base would be in shambles after all those insane drops going on all game long. (actually just my own units attacking my buildings and each other). At last, I'd muster up what I had and push Nada's base, only to find out he has like 1 marine and 6 SCV's.

And then I realize how huge of a waste of time that was. TT

Rollin

Australia1552 Posts

October 24 2012 03:47 GMT

#26

A slow format writes 0s to every sector of the drive. Unrecoverable except through black magic.

stenole

Norway868 Posts

October 24 2012 12:57 GMT

#27

On October 24 2012 12:47 Rollin wrote:
A slow format writes 0s to every sector of the drive. Unrecoverable except through black magic.

The thing is that the medium, although it stores 0s and 1s logically, in the physical domain it is less digital. If a hard drive writes a logical 0, it only pulls the bit to the polarisation of logical 0. It does so quickly and imperfectly. So if you uniformly write 0s on the entire disk, with special equipment you can still read where you have ~0.1s and ~0.2s giving you an image of where you had logical 0s and 1s before. With enough iterations of random writes, you will able to make the data unrecoverable, though. Or you could be more direct about it by physically destroying the hard drive.