User:ThomasW/MyHard-DriveDied

With people storing their life more and more digital it have made the loss of that information more easy. Before people had to deal with fire and floods.. now its a dead hard-drive or online services closing down over night. +++text+++text++++text+++++++++++++ more to be written.......

Twitter

A lot of people are venting their tech frustrations online and posting it on Twitter, why not use all of this information for my project? To make it easy to get this information, one can make and use a twitter-bot to search and re tweet tweets on the subject, that will help me to make a "archive" or ........

Twitter Bot How To Currently reading up how to make the bot

Twitter Account

Inspiration Working On My Novel cortecce-barks

Tweets

Nash Tysmans @nashtysmans 

So, it seems my hard drive has died taking everything to the grave with it. Contemplating the… instagram.com/p/yK4ISKrIh6/

Leigh Hibell @Madedigital 

@MCPlace what was it? MacBook Pro? you can recover the hard drive. My logic board died and I was still able to recover my files.

Kevin Hsieh @khsieh 

Engineering budget is a little tight lately and my hard drive on my MacBook Pro died (rip) so I was… instagram.com/p/0LVRwNGaiq/

Tareq Ateik @TareqAteik 

@verge My Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 hard drive died in 4 months. Whats the point of being the thinnest if the machine isn't reliable?

Crissy @daintyfawn 

Some of my earliest designs from the 90s + early 00s. My hard drive died so I can't find more of these GEMS pic.twitter.com/V5gXyqO8iN

gul deuxchats[SCOLD] @guattari2600 just realized that when my hard drive died i lost all of the osu packs i had downloaded.... life is a nightmare

Alex Navarro @alex_navarro 

I installed a new hard drive in my PS4 and no one died so I guess I'm what you could call handy with electronics.

Jeff Halash @TechNutPC 

My Hard Drive Died #25 – Is the NSA Spying on You? podnutz.com/mhdd025

InfoSec Jesus @InfoSecJesus 

My hard drive died for your SYNs

@ @uandthesix 

Omg my computer hard drive DIED and I thought I lost all the videos from atl but i saved them

Andrey @RUSKII_ 

I probably should upgrade my 6 year old hard drive bc it died on me last fall and I had to revive it by leaving it in the freezer for 2 hrs

Gabriel Mazetto @brodock 

Right in time... decided to install the new hard drive and move my linux stuff there... exactly a few hours after the old hd just died.

David Friedrich @N_Studios 

@GabeAul @crypticfate I remember last October when my laptop's hard drive died. SMART gave me an alert a month early. I lost very little. ^^

andrea ♥ @DiGrazia 

My laptop died a couple days back and I've been praying non-stop for my hard drive, I'm so scared.

Doug @DougMicks 

Well my external Hard Drive is dead the sad part is it died a day after i added a bunch of files to it

SHERR 01 @SytheticWolf 

Had this on my old hard drive, it died before i can post it. Lol pic.twitter.com/mD65RPlRaO

Blogs

Do a similar thing as the twitter, search and collect online blog posts on the topic of data-loss.

Forum Posts

I went one some internett forums and ask some questions related to data loss vintage-computer.com Vintage-Computer got really technical and of course focus on "vintage computers"

Toms Hardware Not a active forum, hardly any replay.

Because of the low replay and lack of time to focus, I have dropped the online-forum angel to the project.

Python Code / FILTER

Using Python code to filter the CSV file that I get from Twtiter when downloading the archive. (help from Michael understanding it)

from csv import DictReader

""" Run me with: python tweets.py > tweets.txt pandoc --from markdown --to html tweets.txt --standalone --css tweets.css > tweets.html

"""

f = open("tweets.csv") r = DictReader(f)

for row in r: # print row print "#", row['retweeted_status_timestamp'] print print row['text'] print print <c/ode>

To get a text file with formatting like this:

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1. 2015-05-17 13:22:05 +0000

RT @TheTitanova: Pretty sure my portable hard drive with all my videos and footage just died, lol.

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Then use Regular expressions code to look at the content do figure out the next move..

import re text = open("tweets.txt").read() for match in re.findall(r"drive died \w+", text):

   print match <\code>

then get files like this

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drive died and drive died today drive died in drive died and drive died after drive died today drive died and drive died today drive died and drive died and drive died after drive died pretty drive died and drive died few drive died so drive died and drive died today drive died but drive died so drive died last drive died on drive died so drive died last drive died last drive died again drive died on drive died today drive died in drive died so drive died i drive died for drive died 4 drive died and drive died and drive died and drive died a drive died together

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Printed

Quick experiment on how it will look and fell of reading about data-loss in printed form.

Dead Hard-Drive Speakers

   1) There is no permanent storage device yet made, but company’s always promises eternal, permanent, life time guaranty for storage of your digital information. Been looking into people own experience when this lies break their promises with their user.
   2) Collecting peoples own experience of data-loss on-line on twitter .
   3) A wall that show ads of storage devices on different types of screens together with re purpose storage devices as speakers.. (Speakers of old Hard-Drives)

Dead Media Wall

The drive are from markets, got a few from kingsday for, two are dead, one started smoking.. so I am using that one for the speaker

Influences and reference

How to Hard Disk Orchestra 2560

Current

The project have taken longer then expected, mostly on the basis on resources as part and tools that had to be ordered and sent to me.

My twitter account and text files archive of the tweets are at 750 messages. I have turned the files into a 1,5 hour long mp3 file with epseak that is put on a old mp3player found on http://www.marktplaats.nl/.

Current issue is that the sound quality from the mp3 player is to weak, and my Audio Amplifier Board is not enough to amp up the sound, my tests have been from my laptop and my phone and it sounds like it got a way better signal.. solution is to use a newer mp3 player or tune the file in Audacity to up the volume.(works)

• The box is made of wood and its cut with a hole on the top to feed the drive is signal.
• The cable goes into the box and into the amp and then gets its signal from the mp3 player.
• The amp is powered by a 5v power supply.

SUMMARIES

I am kinda satisfied on the how it ended, but know what there is no point to take it further on, as to expand it will not give the project anything more.. just more of the same. Need more tweaking on the sound to be better, maybe new wooden box if being exhibited.

But think there is more to be explored with the content in a different context.. book? posters? website? NEW PROJECT PAGE HERE<<<<<<