You have obviously had NO contact with embedded Windows - only the terminally corrupt or terminally stupid would touch that with a disinfected barge pole.
You might be using a file system called FAT - which stands for "File Allocation Table" and is only partially connected with overweight files and the concept of bloatware.
The FAT is a table (bit map of sectors in use) which says which parts of the disk are in use, as well as where the files and their parts are stored. There are also flags saying if the file system (partition) is in use, and if it has been modified - and probably other things (I was last involved in this in about 1990).
When you eject, the system stops making the changes you requested (reads and writes), and updates these tables to a consistent state (well maybe not all that consistent, if its Windows, and completely inconsistent if DOS 4.0), and then clears the dirty (modified) and Open (in use) flags for each partition.
If the eject procedure fails to complete, and the dirty flag is set when you next try to use it, the OS will try to clean up the mess - it may succeed, or trash the data, and report success, or it may fail and tell you the system is dead.
With USB sticks, the data you see is not the real data. Because of the need to hide the bad blocks, and hideously long write time, the OS sees virtual data, and operates on virtual data. The real data is different. A single bit change (eg clear the dirty bit) could end up requiring three or four copy and write operations, operating on massive amounts of logically unrelated data, unknown to the OS. If you trash those, the OS for the CPU in the USB stick will be utterly bamboozled, and you have no interface to tell it to do a factory reset, so you USB stick is dead.
(Actually, the underlying interface to the USB stick is SCSI, and there probably is a SCSI command that would unbrick it, but you can be damned sure that the manufacturer won't tell you what it is, because if he did, you would not go out and buy another USB stick, would you?)
If you think.NET is better, then the answer is "yes".
However, it must depend to some extent on what your constraints are. If you support 32 PHP websites that are online and working (and not running on Intel architecture), migration might be a rather expensive waste of time.
Dimocracy is government of the dim, for the dim, by the dim. Dunning Kruger explains how all democracies will go that way. (People often assume that half the people are of below average intelligence - no - there are a few very bright sparks, and the rest are dim or very dim).
But not always the same person. Assuming the farm has more than one member of staff, then it might be possible for different people to milk the cow on different days. That would enable people to have some days off!
It is not the job of the security services to prevent crime/terrorism/kiddie porn/copyright infringement/whatever.
No their job is: to commit crime/terrorism/kiddie porn/copyright infringement/whatever.
And then put the blame on others.
However, pretending that encryption (probably riddled with backdoors) is secure will hopefully discourage you from using something else which actually is secure.
The spooks are convinced that the master key can be kept secure.
In the UK, that "secure place" is a laptop left in a taxi or pub, somewhere in London.
In the US, it is a mainframe with the root password set to "password".
Correct. A politician, asked "what is the truth?" answered "the truth is what I say it is!"
This was a British Labour (socialist) politician, when I heard him say it on TV but
A) He had clearly been taught this by someone (his dad?)
B) A lot of people think this way - it is probably common for a certain sector of society (Orange coloured ones?)
Theoretically, it is the Abrahamic faiths that argued against this with "there is one God, and therefore one truth: that which God sees".
When at sea, sailing under a British Admiral, I was told "You can argue with the captain, but you cannot argue with the sea. Arguing with the admiral may see you strung up from the yard-arm!"
Arguing with pirate captains (or sailors rougher than yourself) will may end in an unfortunate accident.
Pretty soon there will be so many phones in landfill, we will have no space to bury our dead!
I am in the UK, and I still get 2G connections on my 4G phone in some areas. The first network here to dump 2G is going to lose a lot of subscribers because their phones will find large areas of "no signal". Also, a lot of phones switch to 2G only when the battery is low cos it uses less power. (They go back to 4G when a call is initiated).
In the real world, a warranty is just insurance. Anyone can take out insurance with an insurance company. (It is probably cheaper than from a car dealer anyway). There is also a degree of competition in the insurance industry. However, some insurance companies may be reluctant to buy a high risk for low premiums.
So long as the wind keeps blowing, it is probably cheaper to upgrade an old turbine than make a new one. So long as governments are involved in planning permission, it is probably cheaper to "repair" and old one than get permission to build new.
If the wind stops blowing, you are probably fucked.
Its the wind: often lashing against the blades at force 4 or more. Nothing can withstand that forever!
(Hint: Infinity is quite a long time).
OTOH, if the turbine produces $1k worth of electricity a month, spending $200 to send somebody with a 50c replacement part up it to keep it working for another year or two is a no-brainer....
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Since windows is completely lacking any kind of design, specification or testing, we are on safe ground here!
You are looking in the wrong place.
It was too much for Poettering to handle.
You have obviously had NO contact with embedded Windows - only the terminally corrupt or terminally stupid would touch that with a disinfected barge pole.
It may be slow, but its iData ... which makes it worth the wait!
The FAT is a table (bit map of sectors in use) which says which parts of the disk are in use, as well as where the files and their parts are stored. There are also flags saying if the file system (partition) is in use, and if it has been modified - and probably other things (I was last involved in this in about 1990).
When you eject, the system stops making the changes you requested (reads and writes), and updates these tables to a consistent state (well maybe not all that consistent, if its Windows, and completely inconsistent if DOS 4.0), and then clears the dirty (modified) and Open (in use) flags for each partition.
If the eject procedure fails to complete, and the dirty flag is set when you next try to use it, the OS will try to clean up the mess - it may succeed, or trash the data, and report success, or it may fail and tell you the system is dead.
With USB sticks, the data you see is not the real data. Because of the need to hide the bad blocks, and hideously long write time, the OS sees virtual data, and operates on virtual data. The real data is different. A single bit change (eg clear the dirty bit) could end up requiring three or four copy and write operations, operating on massive amounts of logically unrelated data, unknown to the OS. If you trash those, the OS for the CPU in the USB stick will be utterly bamboozled, and you have no interface to tell it to do a factory reset, so you USB stick is dead.
(Actually, the underlying interface to the USB stick is SCSI, and there probably is a SCSI command that would unbrick it, but you can be damned sure that the manufacturer won't tell you what it is, because if he did, you would not go out and buy another USB stick, would you?)
Yes, but with .NET, they can use a Microsoft development environment to do it!
However, it must depend to some extent on what your constraints are. If you support 32 PHP websites that are online and working (and not running on Intel architecture), migration might be a rather expensive waste of time.
Have you considered becoming a PHB?
Personally, I prefer:
User error: Strike user to continue!
Most bots think they are human, while a good number of humans are actually bots. Look around you!
Dimocracy is government of the dim, for the dim, by the dim. Dunning Kruger explains how all democracies will go that way. (People often assume that half the people are of below average intelligence - no - there are a few very bright sparks, and the rest are dim or very dim).
But not always the same person. Assuming the farm has more than one member of staff, then it might be possible for different people to milk the cow on different days. That would enable people to have some days off!
After thinking about this for about 50 years, I think you are wrong.
Numbers stations transmit the OTP. Many to one broadcasting is good for this.
The OTP is used to encrypt messages which are sent point-to-point by methods more suited to that. (RTTY?)
No their job is:
to commit crime/terrorism/kiddie porn/copyright infringement/whatever.
And then put the blame on others.
However, pretending that encryption (probably riddled with backdoors) is secure will hopefully discourage you from using something else which actually is secure.
In the UK, that "secure place" is a laptop left in a taxi or pub, somewhere in London.
In the US, it is a mainframe with the root password set to "password".
Correct. A politician, asked "what is the truth?" answered "the truth is what I say it is!"
This was a British Labour (socialist) politician, when I heard him say it on TV but
A) He had clearly been taught this by someone (his dad?)
B) A lot of people think this way - it is probably common for a certain sector of society (Orange coloured ones?)
Theoretically, it is the Abrahamic faiths that argued against this with "there is one God, and therefore one truth: that which God sees".
When at sea, sailing under a British Admiral, I was told "You can argue with the captain, but you cannot argue with the sea. Arguing with the admiral may see you strung up from the yard-arm!"
Arguing with pirate captains (or sailors rougher than yourself) will may end in an unfortunate accident.
Well don't tell , or they will ask congress to abolish time!
They are corporations - they only care about next quarter's results. If the one after that looks bad, short the stock
I am in the UK, and I still get 2G connections on my 4G phone in some areas. The first network here to dump 2G is going to lose a lot of subscribers because their phones will find large areas of "no signal". Also, a lot of phones switch to 2G only when the battery is low cos it uses less power. (They go back to 4G when a call is initiated).
You don't even have to understand fly fishing to write the (e)book.
No. Thats psychotics.
Now we have Artificial Intelligence, we also have to put up with Artificial Psychotics. It is a natural consequence of all those GPUs eating Brainz.
Try reading the whole of Jabberwocky with a German accent. It reveals a lot.
So long as the wind keeps blowing, it is probably cheaper to upgrade an old turbine than make a new one. So long as governments are involved in planning permission, it is probably cheaper to "repair" and old one than get permission to build new.
If the wind stops blowing, you are probably fucked.
(Hint: Infinity is quite a long time).
OTOH, if the turbine produces $1k worth of electricity a month, spending $200 to send somebody with a 50c replacement part up it to keep it working for another year or two is a no-brainer....
Oh, wait, so is the president!
Nuke from high orbit, just to be sure.
I don't know who CFRA Research are, but if a bank does this, the rating ought to be shoot to kill.
This is clear proof they are unfit to be a bank.