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Topic: OT: Tech Nerd Thread

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betarhoalphadelta

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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #504 on: February 20, 2026, 02:15:28 PM »
I'll send it to utee and MDT via PM, but if anyone else has interest in the webinar I participated in, it's up on YouTube now. Hit me up and I'll PM the link. 

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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #505 on: February 20, 2026, 02:34:12 PM »
I'll send it to utee and MDT via PM, but if anyone else has interest in the webinar I participated in, it's up on YouTube now. Hit me up and I'll PM the link.

Awesome thanks, I'll take a look this weekend!

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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #506 on: March 09, 2026, 03:04:17 PM »
I always tend to be a little dismissive of technologies that are only in the lab and haven't yet shown the ability to scale commercially. 

I.e. in the 90s, I was reading stories about how tape storage was dead (it's not). In the 2000s I was hearing stories about how flash was going to kill HDD (it hasn't). In the 2010s I was reading about all the storage technologies that were just around the corner and would kill flash (none have escaped the lab). 

Which isn't to say these technologies won't have their day... I just tend not to get worried until they prove they can scale. 

Well, here's a company that says they expect to commercialize DNA storage by the end of this year, with scale by the end of the decade:

https://www.techradar.com/pro/we-intend-to-launch-our-first-end-to-end-commercial-dna-data-storage-solutions-before-the-end-of-2026-biomemory-outlines-its-dna-storage-roadmap-after-catalog-deal

If they actually can scale, it's going to be an extraordinarily dense storage media. I'm not sure it will ever compete with disk/flash on performance and latency, but it might compete with tape for archival. 

But either way, if you're a tech nerd [and thus reading this thread], it's pretty cool. 



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« Reply #507 on: March 09, 2026, 03:08:36 PM »
Yup, my first job at my current company was managing the supply chain for Tape Storage devices.  I had no idea it was still in use at that point, and even now, 15 years later, we're still selling something like $250-$350 million per year in tape storage devices and media.


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« Reply #508 on: March 09, 2026, 03:17:20 PM »
Yep. Tape does what it does really well. It's dense, cheap, durable, and consumes zero power when you're not reading/writing. Oh, and because it can be air-gapped, an offline tape archive is immune from ransomware. 

It's the hours to days of latency to get access to your data that's the problem. But there are a lot of archival use cases where you can live with that, and so tape just keeps on keeping on. 

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« Reply #509 on: March 09, 2026, 03:22:17 PM »
Yep. Tape does what it does really well. It's dense, cheap, durable, and consumes zero power when you're not reading/writing. Oh, and because it can be air-gapped, an offline tape archive is immune from ransomware.

It's the hours to days of latency to get access to your data that's the problem. But there are a lot of archival use cases where you can live with that, and so tape just keeps on keeping on.

Yeah, lots of government, healthcare, and financial institutions use it for archives.  None of those entities are particularly concerned about rapid access. :)


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« Reply #510 on: March 09, 2026, 03:27:02 PM »
Yep. Store it, truck it to an old salt mine to preserve it, and you know it's taken care of in the event something bad happens onsite lol. 

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« Reply #511 on: March 23, 2026, 11:55:34 AM »
Ahh, good old MS Outlook... 

Saturday night, between 11:31 PM and 12:04 AM, while I was soundly asleep, Outlook decided to re-send meeting invites for a dozen or so things on my calendar. Some are recurring meetings. Others are meetings that were stand-alone that happened a month and a half ago. 

Some were things with my wife, as I use that calendar for keeping track of pretty much everything. So on Sunday morning after she woke up asked me "why did you send all these meetings???" 

So now I've got a whole bunch of people accepting or declining meetings, and a few people asking "why were you sending out meetings at 11:30 on Saturday night?"

Ugh...

Has anyone else seen that one happen?

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« Reply #512 on: March 23, 2026, 12:01:14 PM »
Yes, it was a glitch a couple of years ago. I fixed it with an update. For you... probably a call to admin, I'm guessing.
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« Reply #513 on: March 23, 2026, 12:14:46 PM »
the newer web type version of MS Outlook makes me grumpy
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« Reply #514 on: March 23, 2026, 01:12:18 PM »
Yes, it was a glitch a couple of years ago. I fixed it with an update. For you... probably a call to admin, I'm guessing.
I will if it happens again.

the newer web type version of MS Outlook makes me grumpy
Me too. I just had to switch. 

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« Reply #515 on: March 23, 2026, 04:09:13 PM »
MS Office on my Samsung phone is horrible!!!!

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« Reply #516 on: March 23, 2026, 06:39:37 PM »
I will if it happens again.
Me too. I just had to switch.
Some of my computers will not run the app and have to do the web thing, some of them still do.  It's a real pain in the ass, and I'm always misplacing emails (or just can't find them) when you reply--it moves them/covers them up.  There has to be a better way...but I don't have time for that $hit--Winged Helmet

 

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