Windows has always used a Heisenburg unmount strategy (i.e. you don't know whether the drive is unmounted until you try accessing it).
Yes, and the 'doze also freezes the whole frickin' desktop for a painful few seconds any time a new CD is 'detected' until it is identified and explorer has a chance to fiddle with it. It's one of the really annoying things about the 'doze. I have looked long and hard for any way of disabling this auto-mount 'feature' but it seems to be a bug deeply planted in explorer. I suppose a whole manual 'mount' mechanism would have to replace it.
I did figure out what service to disable to keep fricking XP from diddling around and popping up a 'helpful' spam-dialogue any time a usb drive is detected.
I think you're prettifying the situation by calling an awful kludge a 'heisenberg' strategy.
I buy mostly bare circuit boards, connectors, battery clips, the occasional small plastic case. They still sell enough cheap small electronic parts. And there is one less than two miles from me out in the sticks.
This year the Radio Shack was the only 'day after thanksgiving' sale I visited. Got battery powered soldering irons for $4.99 each. They usually have at least one or two different cakeboxes of CDR/DVDR media with really low prices.
I don't know why people hate them so much. If you build circuits, i.e. actually pick up a soldering iron and make something occasionally, they have the essentials that you don't want to order from DigiKey, i.e. the perfboards you need to solder that PIC controller and misc. onto.
They even have electronics type parts, for the electronics tinkerer.
Well, they do sorta.
It's a deteriorating part of our local Frys. There really isn't a strong enough market for cash-n-carry electronic parts, so not much gets restocked regularly.
I buy out several categories of parts each time I visit the store.
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Windows has always used a Heisenburg unmount strategy (i.e. you don't know whether the drive is unmounted until you try accessing it).
Yes, and the 'doze also freezes the whole frickin' desktop for a painful few seconds any time a new CD is 'detected' until it is identified and explorer has a chance to fiddle with it. It's one of the really annoying things about the 'doze. I have looked long and hard for any way of disabling this auto-mount 'feature' but it seems to be a bug deeply planted in explorer. I suppose a whole manual 'mount' mechanism would have to replace it.
I did figure out what service to disable to keep fricking XP from diddling around and popping up a 'helpful' spam-dialogue any time a usb drive is detected.
I think you're prettifying the situation by calling an awful kludge a 'heisenberg' strategy.
I buy mostly bare circuit boards, connectors, battery clips, the occasional small plastic case. They still sell enough cheap small electronic parts. And there is one less than two miles from me out in the sticks.
This year the Radio Shack was the only 'day after thanksgiving' sale I visited. Got battery powered soldering irons for $4.99 each. They usually have at least one or two different cakeboxes of CDR/DVDR media with really low prices.
I don't know why people hate them so much. If you build circuits, i.e. actually pick up a soldering iron and make something occasionally, they have the essentials that you don't want to order from DigiKey, i.e. the perfboards you need to solder that PIC controller and misc. onto.
They even have electronics type parts, for the electronics tinkerer.
Well, they do sorta.
It's a deteriorating part of our local Frys. There really isn't a strong enough market for cash-n-carry electronic parts, so not much gets restocked regularly.
I buy out several categories of parts each time I visit the store.
Best just to pull up DigiKey's website.