Subj : man's most serious activity is play
To   : Charles Blackburn
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Wed Oct 12 2022 00:16:43

Hey Charles!

 CB> not to mention a DVD which wasnt around really in 95 :D

Thank goodness.  I never really liked CDs and all DVDs added was greater capacity with no additional assurances that the spinney disk of plastic isn't entirely useless over a relatively short lifetime.  Mind you the plastic will be long after this civilization has burned out.  Back around 1999-ish I thought flash disks (compact flash) would be the ultimate install source.  There were CFdisk -> ide adapters but not hotswapping other than the usb ones which at the time weren't bootable.

 CB> DD never barfed on anything

I've seen it bog down on some bad CD/DVDs to the point of having to kill the process.  If you allow it to, dd will try for days to make a copy.  Persistant little bugger.

  file -b /usr/bin/dd
  ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped

Worth vastly more than it's weight in bytes.  The above is the coreutils version of dd.  Isn't everybody's?

Life is good,
Maurice

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