Data rot, the decay of electromagnetic charge in a computer's storage
Disc rot, the deterioration of optical media such as DVDs and CDs
Software rot, the deterioration of unmaintained software
Topics referred to by the same term
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Bitrot may refer to: "BitRot", a short story by Charles Stross Data rot, the decay of electromagnetic charge in a computer's storage Disc rot, the deterioration...
Software rot (bitrot, code rot, software erosion, software decay, or software entropy) is either a slow deterioration of software quality over time or...
tissue Bitrot, data degradation Software rot, a form of bitrot Disk rot, also called CD Rot or DVD rot, the physical decay of optical disks Link rot, hyperlinks...
in a data storage device. It is also referred to as data decay, data rot or bitrot. This results in a decline in data quality over time, even when the...
can be used for protecting any kind of data from data corruption, disc rot, bitrot, and accidental or malicious damage. Despite the name, Parchive uses...
Contemporary Canadian Art, now the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada, and BitRot at Rotterdam's Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, as well as the...
(most) memory cards encounter their own form of bitrot when the charges representing individual bits of binary information dissipate beyond a certain...
Print Media May Be Bad for Humanity, Tony Bradley, PCWorld, 19 March 2012 BitRot - The Economist, 28 April 2012 "Raiders of the Lost Web", The Atlantic...
depending on what is making the sector inaccessible. In case of power loss, bitrot (more likely on floppy disks), or firmware issues, the on-disk format can...
Locations of medium errors can be either temporary (as in the case of bitrot – there is no damage to the medium, the data was simply lost), or permanent...
ROT13 (Rotate13, "rotate by 13 places", sometimes hyphenated ROT-13) is a simple letter substitution cipher that replaces a letter with the 13th letter...
stories as the "Freyaverse." Saturn's Children (2008, ISBN 0-441-01594-8) "BitRot", short story in Engineering Infinity (2010, ISBN 1-907-51952-1) Neptune's...
archive—and the efforts to make it publicly available while protecting it from bitrot—are the subject of the article On Excess: Susan Sontag's Born-Digital Archive...
time, leading to an accumulation of logical errors, also known as "bitrot" or "bit fading". It is unclear how long data on flash memory will persist under...
physical errors, misprocessing by the hardware or operating system, or bitrot events and data corruption that may happen over time. Its complete control...
and raw materials, asymmetric warfare and planetary computation) (2015), BitRot by Douglas Coupland (2015), Character is Fate by Willem de Rooij (2015)...
design. The Mimes: An offshoot of the Fringe that in the past suffered bitrot from a solar flare and has become corrupted. On a visited planet, the Mimes...
Rotting in the Sun is a 2023 black comedy thriller film directed by Sebastián Silva, who co-wrote the screenplay with Pedro Peirano. It stars Jordan Firstman...
Daily transferring data from their mirror sites to the emergency servers. Bitrot Data curation Data preservation Digital dark age Digital preservation Knowledge...
Yale-NUS College and National University of Singapore Worker-Wrappers against BitRot. 2020 SKB Kontur Build virtual machine by the alien specification, run...
(short story) "The Server and the Dragon" by Hannu Rajaniemi (short story) "BitRot" (Saturn's Children) by Charles Stross (novelette) "Creatures with Wings"...