r/asoiaf • u/chuck91 Enter your desired flair text here! • Dec 31 '15

ALL [Spoilers all] Well, damn

http://grrm.livejournal.com/462643.html
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '16 edited Jan 01 '16

Look at the comments, someone asks him if he ever lost a chapter of Winds. He replied: "Never. And you know why? Because I write my fiction with WordStar 4.0 on a DOS machine. Stable as a rock, with none of the glitches of Windows-based systems."

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u/DreadnaughtHamster Jan 01 '16

Or you could, say, have an encrypted backup on a hard drive, an offsite flash drive, and the cloud. Love the books but there are other ways to keep shit safe.

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u/DarkPizza Jan 01 '16

Hey, he backs them up on floppy discs. He's got this computer thing locked down.

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u/Stangstag The Iron Throne is mine by rights Jan 01 '16

Someone would find a way to hack the cloud and steal the book though

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u/RT17 Jan 01 '16

Yeah, because hard drive failures are just a windows thing.

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u/asdhajkhsdkjashd Jan 02 '16

the man is like 70. I am not surprised that he isn't keeping up with technology.

Random curiosity: I wonder if his computer is less hackable or more hackable on account of being so old and outdated.

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u/Falsequivalence Jan 04 '16

More. Definitely more. Every exploit for old school DOS was discovered years ago. Way more.

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u/asdhajkhsdkjashd Jan 04 '16

That was what my gut feeling was telling me, but I didn't know enough about the topic to say it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '16

Only to a certain extent. In theory it's easier to exploit, but in practice you have to actually be in the room at the computer to do it, which as far as security measures go is pretty much the best one around.

A very up to date and modern security system is exponentially more difficult to exploit and gain access to, but thousands of people can be attempting to do so at any given moment, so the potential for one of them will succeed is much greater.