Comments on: Lazy Reading for 2018/06/24

By: Éamon

Éamon — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 06:52:29 +0000

Interesting that the Speak and Spell was based on a Texan’s voice. I remember having trouble with “pen” or “pin”, because the pronunciation was so much different to what I was used to.

By: Lars Schotte

Lars Schotte — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:09:56 +0000

Speaking of WinRAR. RAR has some kind of parity algorithm.
And the strange thing now is that apart from par2 utility (which is obsolete and I did not see anyone developing it any more (looks like a dead project), I did not find anything for doing parity on files.
It would be nice to have a simple unix tool to create some kind of compatible par files so that one can fill up the space of let’s say a blu-ray with parity. So that in case of scratches on the medium, the data could be restored with high probability when only few blocks are damaged, you understand what I mean?

By: Felix

Felix — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 15:48:13 +0000

I’d forgotten about E.T., but the Speak and Spell also features (rather less famously) in an issue of The New Teen Titans, where mute superhero Jericho uses it to relay important information over the phone. Spirit of the times!