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geekmaster · 06-17-2016, 11:20 PM

No luck finding the modified battery frames. My projects were "put away" when we had visitors for dinner. Now they are gone. I found the dead LiPos, but not the parts I need. Sad... To be continued later (when I find my PW2/3 battery frames with circuit board). PW2 apart, ready and waiting for battery test...

I only remember where I last USED them. Just like everything my whole life. Finding a "place" for something that is logical and sensible for the CURRENT CONTEXT makes it impossible to find in the next context. Something about my indexing system. It is relative to memories of having USED the stuff, not having STORED it...

Perhaps technology can assist. But I would just "put away" (i.e. LOSE) those tech tools too. I have lost countless journals and notebooks when I attempted using them. They resurface years later... And journaling on hard drives is ineffective with the drive failure rate I have experienced (mostly seagate drives, which Google refuses to use for the same reason). And I need to index more than 300 hard drives and thousands of DVDs full of my stuff too -- huge codebases and documentation I wrote. That is WHY I post here -- somebody else backs it up, and I can access it from everywhere. Before social media, all my content got lost in storage just like my parts and tools. I make backups, which is why I have hundreds of drives, but those extra backups diverge as they get used, and need to be indexed and compared and merged, or something.

Most drive indexing tools fail when the index databases start to fill a hard drive. So I carved them into many pieces, but all those indexing databases are just more to keep track of and to lose. I need to write my own...

Anyway, I have far more electronic data than parts and tools. I have been a huge collector of scientific thesis documents and research documents and tons of code snippets (all vetted for no "GPL virus"). Many things collected BEFORE they went proprietary. Some things that just "disappeared" in a way that indicates they became classified. Whatever. A nice collection, at least what I can recover from backups or dead hard drives. Yes I have experience swapping drive platter stacks and head arrays. I have the tools and the experience. But not the desire. I want my data back, but I want to create new stuff too...

What is the most strange of all, is now and then I discover something truly AMAZING in my collection, something I wish I knew about long ago, something that could have saved me countless hours. Something I intend to learn now, finally. And then I discover who the original author was -- it was ME! I thought that was a symptom of my brain injury, but my older friends tell me that is a NORMAL part of getting old. Scary and disappointing. I have so much yet I haven't forgotten, and can easily relearn the stuff I documented that I forgot -- it would be sad to take it all to the grave. But how and when and where can I share it, when only a small portion of it is about kindles?

06-17-2016, 11:20 PM	#110
geekmaster Carpe diem, c'est la vie. Posts: 6,433 Karma: 10773670 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Multiverse 6627A Device: K1 to PW3	No luck finding the modified battery frames. My projects were "put away" when we had visitors for dinner. Now they are gone. I found the dead LiPos, but not the parts I need. Sad... To be continued later (when I find my PW2/3 battery frames with circuit board). PW2 apart, ready and waiting for battery test... I only remember where I last USED them. Just like everything my whole life. Finding a "place" for something that is logical and sensible for the CURRENT CONTEXT makes it impossible to find in the next context. Something about my indexing system. It is relative to memories of having USED the stuff, not having STORED it... Perhaps technology can assist. But I would just "put away" (i.e. LOSE) those tech tools too. I have lost countless journals and notebooks when I attempted using them. They resurface years later... And journaling on hard drives is ineffective with the drive failure rate I have experienced (mostly seagate drives, which Google refuses to use for the same reason). And I need to index more than 300 hard drives and thousands of DVDs full of my stuff too -- huge codebases and documentation I wrote. That is WHY I post here -- somebody else backs it up, and I can access it from everywhere. Before social media, all my content got lost in storage just like my parts and tools. I make backups, which is why I have hundreds of drives, but those extra backups diverge as they get used, and need to be indexed and compared and merged, or something. Most drive indexing tools fail when the index databases start to fill a hard drive. So I carved them into many pieces, but all those indexing databases are just more to keep track of and to lose. I need to write my own... Anyway, I have far more electronic data than parts and tools. I have been a huge collector of scientific thesis documents and research documents and tons of code snippets (all vetted for no "GPL virus"). Many things collected BEFORE they went proprietary. Some things that just "disappeared" in a way that indicates they became classified. Whatever. A nice collection, at least what I can recover from backups or dead hard drives. Yes I have experience swapping drive platter stacks and head arrays. I have the tools and the experience. But not the desire. I want my data back, but I want to create new stuff too... What is the most strange of all, is now and then I discover something truly AMAZING in my collection, something I wish I knew about long ago, something that could have saved me countless hours. Something I intend to learn now, finally. And then I discover who the original author was -- it was ME! I thought that was a symptom of my brain injury, but my older friends tell me that is a NORMAL part of getting old. Scary and disappointing. I have so much yet I haven't forgotten, and can easily relearn the stuff I documented that I forgot -- it would be sad to take it all to the grave. But how and when and where can I share it, when only a small portion of it is about kindles? Last edited by geekmaster; 06-18-2016 at 12:13 AM.