Backwards Letters on graves

[mcb66]

I found some names carved on a rock near a river and old mill. One of the fellows name is followed by NASR. The N is normal, the A is upside down, The S and R are backwards. I'll look for pictures of it. I lost a lot of images when my old computer croaked! This carving has had me wondering what it meant ever since I found it. Any ideas?

 

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[Kentucky Kache]

I found some names carved on a rock near a river and old mill. One of the fellows name is followed by NASR. The N is normal, the A is upside down, The S and R are backwards. I'll look for pictures of it. I lost a lot of images when my old computer croaked! This carving has had me wondering what it meant ever since I found it. Any ideas?

I don't know what the carving means, but I will give you some helpful advice. Make a Yahoo email address (free) and send all your files there as a backup. Then if your computer crashes, you have all the important things saved.

 

[poorfarm]

with new computer burn them to disc make 2 copies

 

[Kentucky Kache]

with new computer burn them to disc make 2 copies

But if you don't have a burner, a free email account can't be beat. And it's extremely easy and quick to email things.

 

[Shortstack]

I bought a 1 terabyte external hard drive specifically for backups. I keep it tucked away in a chest of drawers until needed, then plug it into the computer; do the backups, and unplug it to store away again. The drive is a basic Western Digital Book that uses USB-2 hook up. That's also the drive that I do my system backups to and since they are not "ON" constantly, they don't wear out like the internal drives. This technique keeps my info directly in MY control and not on some website that might get hacked or shut down.

I also got an external CD / DVD drive burner that is a simple, basic USB-2 hook up that is so small, it can also be tucked away in a drawer when not in use. It cost just $35 with free shipping on eBay.

I do not buy INTERNAL drives or burners anymore. The external ones using USB-2 are excellent and low cost; plus portable for use with other machines if I want to do that.

 

[Kentucky Kache]

I bought a 1 terabyte external hard drive specifically for backups. I keep it tucked away in a chest of drawers until needed, then plug it into the computer; do the backups, and unplug it to store away again. The drive is a basic Western Digital Book that uses USB-2 hook up. That's also the drive that I do my system backups to and since they are not "ON" constantly, they don't wear out like the internal drives. This technique keeps my info directly in MY control and not on some website that might get hacked or shut down.

I also got an external CD / DVD drive burner that is a simple, basic USB-2 hook up that is so small, it can also be tucked away in a drawer when not in use. It cost just $35 with free shipping on eBay.

I do not buy INTERNAL drives or burners anymore. The external ones using USB-2 are excellent and low cost; plus portable for use with other machines if I want to do that.

That's good, but it's also an expense. And whether or not you think it can happen, those can tear up too. I also have a thumb drive I like to use, but files on things like that can also get lost. There are no 100% guarantees with anything, but in the years I have used Yahoo email as my primary backup, I have yet to have the 1st problem. I can't say the same about drives, although I like to use both.

 

[Shortstack]

I'm glad you haven't had any problems with the site you're using. Just recently, my Contacts List on Hotmail (now MicroSoft Live Mail) hacked and sold to a damned spammer. Fortunately, I had just 6 or 7 names there, so I asked them to block all emails from that email address. I had messages automatically forwarded to my main address and THAT was how I learned of the hacking. I got spam "originating" from my own mail address there. LOL

Anyway, good luck with your technique.

 

[Kentucky Kache]

I'm glad you haven't had any problems with the site you're using. Just recently, my Contacts List on Hotmail (now MicroSoft Live Mail) hacked and sold to a damned spammer. Fortunately, I had just 6 or 7 names there, so I asked them to block all emails from that email address. I had messages automatically forwarded to my main address and THAT was how I learned of the hacking. I got spam "originating" from my own mail address there. LOL

Anyway, good luck with your technique.

Never had any problems with Yahoo. Of coarse anything can happen, and usually does.
I have had problems with drives, so I guess the best recommendation would be to use both drives AND an email site. That's what I do with some of my files.

 

[poorfarm]

in the last few years basically all pc had a burner even the cheap ones

 

[Old Dog]

I use the old tried and true copy it into my field book and keep an extra copy in the safe.
My safe is a huge thing that also holds other documents, coins, guns, pictures etc...
My other hard copy files are printed out and kept in accordion files that stack on the bottom three shelves of the safe along with special artifacts that come in handy when somebody says "Spanish, yeah right".
that's why I have to dig to get something to post but it is always there for me.

The safest way to be is to keep the stuff off the computer and devices period.
No deterioration.

 

[Kentucky Kache]

in the last few years basically all pc had a burner even the cheap ones

That's true, but it's still easier and cheaper to email files.

 

[Kentucky Kache]

I use the old tried and true copy it into my field book and keep an extra copy in the safe.
My safe is a huge thing that also holds other documents, coins, guns, pictures etc...
My other hard copy files are printed out and kept in accordion files that stack on the bottom three shelves of the safe along with special artifacts that come in handy when somebody says "Spanish, yeah right".
that's why I have to dig to get something to post but it is always there for me.

The safest way to be is to keep the stuff off the computer and devices period.
No deterioration.

That's a fact.

 

[Shortstack]

I use the old tried and true copy it into my field book and keep an extra copy in the safe.
My safe is a huge thing that also holds other documents, coins, guns, pictures etc...
My other hard copy files are printed out and kept in accordion files that stack on the bottom three shelves of the safe along with special artifacts that come in handy when somebody says "Spanish, yeah right".
that's why I have to dig to get something to post but it is always there for me.

The safest way to be is to keep the stuff off the computer and devices period.
No deterioration.

Yep. And that's also extra protection against the EMPs from solar storms on the sun and / or some fool popping off an EMP bomb to screw up communications in this country. Those pulses would wipe out computers, too.

Now, back to the subject. Could those backwards letters be part of the early lettering techniques such as the lower case "f" being used for the first "s" in words with double "s" in their spelling?

 

[goverton]

I found some names carved on a rock near a river and old mill. One of the fellows name is followed by NASR. The N is normal, the A is upside down, The S and R are backwards. I'll look for pictures of it. I lost a lot of images when my old computer croaked! This carving has had me wondering what it meant ever since I found it. Any ideas?

If you still have the dead hard drive, those files can be recovered.
I found a program that recovers lost files.
What I did was put in New hard drive, load all the programs( what a chore in itself), then made the dead hard drive a slave( change jumpers on back of dead hard drive). I was able to run this recovery program and got all usable info( pics mostly) from dead hard drive.
below explains options:
http://www.hiren.info/downloads/data-recovery/hard-drive/1