Subj : man's most serious activity is play
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Charles Blackburn
Date : Fri Oct 14 2022 17:10:12

  Re: man's most serious activity is play
  By: Maurice Kinal to Charles Blackburn on Wed Oct 12 2022 00:16:43


 MK> Hey Charles!

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

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

oh come on... we all know the ultimate was "disk-On-Chip" (i have a few lying around here somewhere :D)


 CB>> DD never barfed on anything
 MK> 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
 MK> days to make a copy. Persistant little bugger.

yea you and me both LOL

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

I can beat that :D

# file dd
dd:          ELF 32-bit LSB Executable 80386, dynamically linked, stripped, no debug
# ls -ld dd
lrwxrwxrwx      1   root      root          30    Sep 14  2015  dd -> /opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.7Hw/bin/dd
# uname -a 
SCO_SV sco507vm 3.2 5.0.7 i386


<snarky> the real size is 16744 bytes :D 30 bytes for a dd yea right LOL that was the symlink size :D
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