The problem with using rubbing alcohol to clean contacts is that it removes not just dirt but also any protective lubricating film.
Substituting contact cleaner for the alcohol would be a better method. The contact cleaner removes dirt and leaves a film that will reduce wear and tear on both the cart and the system.
I hereby copyright "1110100100101000." In the music word, even a sample of a work is considered infringement so any file that has that binary sequence in it is infringing.
I can guarantee it appears in every single GIF image ever made.
It seems like it would be hard to enforce jurisdiction in space when we don't even have jurisdiction 10 miles off our coastline.
Not sure what you mean by that. Like most other countries we have full control of the waters up to 12 nautical miles of the coast and limited control 200 miles out.
No, it really does have some interesting observations, with some very scary implications:
One of the first things that will happen, is that the memory DIMMs will no longer be refreshed properly (DRAM needs to be refreshed constantly otherwise it will loose it's data) and very rapidly, the memory will contain only garbage. The hard drives and DMA controller however, will run a bit longer; so if data is being written to disk, the DMA controller will keep reading data from memory, but it has no idea that this data is corrupted.
What's really scary is that these hardware "facts" that are being used as a proof are based on an email from some random web site.
All systems I have used in the past 5-10 years, even the cheap ones, had built in monitoring (lm_sensors). It's hard to believe that these voltage monitoring chips are not driving either an interrupt or the main reset line on the motherboard when one of the voltages goes below a certain threshold.
I was sure that figure was upwards of a million cycles per sector in modern flash chips. I keep seeing this figure of a million cycles per sector but have yet to see it on a datasheet.
To paraphrase the above response; "No marketing or sales executive will ever countenance the downward estimation of erase/write cycles per sector. If the chip can survive one million cycles per sector, then by God it's going to say so on the sales info."
Last time I checked no one was listing the lifetime of their chip at more than 100k cycles per sector.
What manufacturer is quoting anything near one million erase/write cycles per sector?
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The problem with using rubbing alcohol to clean contacts is that it removes not just dirt but also any protective lubricating film.
Substituting contact cleaner for the alcohol would be a better method. The contact cleaner removes dirt and leaves a film that will reduce wear and tear on both the cart and the system.
I hereby copyright "1110100100101000." In the music word, even a sample of a work is considered infringement so any file that has that binary sequence in it is infringing.
I can guarantee it appears in every single GIF image ever made.
Since when is GIF an audio format?
It seems like it would be hard to enforce jurisdiction in space when we don't even have jurisdiction 10 miles off our coastline.
Not sure what you mean by that. Like most other countries we have full control of the waters up to 12 nautical miles of the coast and limited control 200 miles out.
No, it really does have some interesting observations, with some very scary implications:
One of the first things that will happen, is that the memory DIMMs will no longer be refreshed properly (DRAM needs to be refreshed constantly otherwise it will loose it's data) and very rapidly, the memory will contain only garbage. The hard drives and DMA controller however, will run a bit longer; so if data is being written to disk, the DMA controller will keep reading data from memory, but it has no idea that this data is corrupted.
What's really scary is that these hardware "facts" that are being used as a proof are based on an email from some random web site.
All systems I have used in the past 5-10 years, even the cheap ones, had built in monitoring (lm_sensors). It's hard to believe that these voltage monitoring chips are not driving either an interrupt or the main reset line on the motherboard when one of the voltages goes below a certain threshold.
It would be nice if politicians took a scientific approach to prioritizing funding preventative initiatives rather than a fantasy-base religious one.
It would be nice if voters elected politicians based on their scientific views rather than the politician's religious beliefs.
To paraphrase the above response;
"No marketing or sales executive will ever countenance the downward estimation of erase/write cycles per sector. If the chip can survive one million cycles per sector, then by God it's going to say so on the sales info."
Last time I checked no one was listing the lifetime of their chip at more than 100k cycles per sector.
What manufacturer is quoting anything near one million erase/write cycles per sector?