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GMAN
As much as they may not care for my posts, you are the one who is the
most hated here.
I helped the OP , you just belittle everyone.
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As much as they may not care for my posts, you are the one who is the
most hated here.
I helped the OP , you just belittle everyone.
G
GMAN
GBOY drivelled
Go and **** yourself, again.
Wota stunning line in rational argument you have there, child.
No one sucks your dick, they'd need a microscope to find it.
Such a duchebag
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Rod Speed
GBOY drivelled
Only silly little microdick children give a flying red **** about anything like that, child.
As much as they may not care for my posts, you are the one who is the most hated here.
Only silly little microdick children give a flying red **** about anything like that, child.
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Rod Speed
GBOY drivelled
Wota stunning line in rational argument you have there, child.
You're just jealous, child.
Such a duchebag
Wota stunning line in rational argument you have there, child.
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You're just jealous, child.
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John Turco
Rod said:GBOY drivelled
All of them, ****wit.
If a hard disk can be "short stroked," at the factory...is
it possible that a person's brain could be short stroked,
at birth?
Folkert Rienstra springs immediately to mind, as a likely
candidate!
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Rod Speed
John Turco wrote
Yes, most obviously with substance abuse and even with alcohol abuse.
FAS even produces quite distinctive effects on the appearance of the brat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_syndrome
And that gutless clown above in spades.
Rod Speed wrote
If a hard disk can be "short stroked," at the factory...is it
possible that a person's brain could be short stroked, at birth?
Yes, most obviously with substance abuse and even with alcohol abuse.
FAS even produces quite distinctive effects on the appearance of the brat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_syndrome
Folkert Rienstra springs immediately to mind, as a likely candidate!
And that gutless clown above in spades.
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Arno
John Turco said:If a hard disk can be "short stroked," at the factory...is
it possible that a person's brain could be short stroked,
at birth?
Folkert Rienstra springs immediately to mind, as a likely
candidate!
Ah, Folk-Nut. I think his soul suffered transfer corruption
when he was reincarnated the last time. Or he always comes
out like this....
Arno
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mm
No problem, That program saved my butt when i was testing a 32GB SD card. It
turned out the 32GB SD card i bought was real, but had somehow been corrupted
and it took a utility like that to verify it was real, and to bring it back
from its braindead state.
Most likely, the person you bought it from tried to install a linux install
and screwed up the USB stick.
Yeah, that makes sense.
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Arno
mm said:Yeah, that makes sense.
A 'Linux install" cannot "screw up" an USB memory stick.
Stop spreading FUD.
Arno
G
GMAN
A 'Linux install" cannot "screw up" an USB memory stick.
Stop spreading FUD.
Arno
If the person tried removing it while formatting the stick or while trying
to install linux or another OS, it most certainly could.
You and Rod need to get a room.
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Arno
GMAN said:If the person tried removing it while formatting the stick or while trying
to install linux or another OS, it most certainly could.
Pulling a stick while writing is something else. No connection to
what was written at all, i.e. the 'Linux install' is not relevant
or the cause.
You and Rod need to get a room.
If that is your take on my comments, please add me to your killfile.
Arno
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simon
Pulling a stick while writing is something else. No connection to what
was written at all, i.e. the 'Linux install' is not relevant or the cause.
It is relevant when the OP said that there were remnants of Linux on it.
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GMAN
****, just stop!Pulling a stick while writing is something else. No connection to
what was written at all, i.e. the 'Linux install' is not relevant
or the cause.
It is relevant that the OP said there was linux files all over the stick. So
one would ASSume that someone was installing, writing, using linux on the damn
stick!!!!!
If that is your take on my comments, please add me to your killfile.
Arno
You never even go back and read the OP's posts.
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mm
But GMAN didn't say that the install screwed it up. He said "Most
likely, the person you bought it from tried to install a linux install
and screwed up the USB stick."
The person tried to install linux files AND the person screwed up the
stick.
It's relevant because it explains the Linux files on the stick.
likely, the person you bought it from tried to install a linux install
and screwed up the USB stick."
The person tried to install linux files AND the person screwed up the
stick.
Pulling a stick while writing is something else. No connection to
what was written at all, i.e. the 'Linux install' is not relevant
or the cause.
It's relevant because it explains the Linux files on the stick.
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Arno
You have to admit that GMAN's post was unclear - though he didn't say so
explicitly, the post implied that the act of installing Linux damaged
the stick, rather than that the owner messed it up by pulling out the
stick, turning off the power, or whatever.
That was what I was objecting too. That there were Linux-related
files on the stick was already clear from the OP.
Anyway, I can think of a couple of other things to check.
One is that the stick has been partitioned using Linux. Windows cannot
cope well with partitions on some kinds of removable media, whereas
Linux has no problems. And Windows can get totally confused by file
systems it doesn't recognise (i.e., anything but FAT and NTFS), while
Linux has no problems. So one possibility is that the stick has been
partitioned and formatted with Linux file systems, with a 1 GB FAT32
partition.
Hmm. Indeed. Some software would do that, for example when doing
a 1GB bootable external drive with an older method, that cannot
boot drives configured as > 1GB in the MBR. Something like that
would be removed with a simple overwrite of the start of the stick
though.
Another idea is that if the drive is fake, the faker has to make it look
like there is /something/ on the disk that is taking all that space, so
that it appears to be a valid but hard-to-delete file. Picking fake
files that look vaguely like a partial Linux install is perhaps aimed at
making people think they've got 15 GB of "free stuff" which they just
don't know how to use, rather than 15 GB of non-existent flash.
Devious. Also quite correct. My take would be that a faked
flash drive is trash anyways, as it is likely to use sub-standard
flash chips that did not pass vendore certification. One reason
to fail vendor certification would be, for example, that some cell
banks are broken or unreliable. These can still be sold for
specialty applications that use only the working parts of the chip.
A faker is likely to use the wole chip.
If you want to give Linux a try, download a live CD/DVD such as Knoppix
or Ubuntu (or buy a Linux magazine with a CD attached) and boot from
that. You can then insert your usb stick and see what the Linux distro
tells you - maybe you can learn more than when using Windows.
Almost certainly.
Arno
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Rod Speed
David Brown wrote
Nope, just that it could be interpreted more than one
way if you didnt think about what the OP had said.
Nope, that was just a stupid assumption on the reader's part.
ALL he meant was that there clearly were linux files on it,
so its likely that linux was somehow involved in the ****up,
not that linux CAUSED the ****up.
It doesnt have to be any of those, just that it clearly was stuffed up and
had linux files on it, so likely linux was involved in the stuffup somehow.
He doesnt need to check anything, its working fine now.
It remains to be seen if it continues to work fine and whether the stick
does indeed have some quirks that caused the original problem.
mm wrote
You have to admit that GMAN's post was unclear
Nope, just that it could be interpreted more than one
way if you didnt think about what the OP had said.
- though he didn't say so explicitly, the post implied that the act of installing Linux damaged the stick,
Nope, that was just a stupid assumption on the reader's part.
ALL he meant was that there clearly were linux files on it,
so its likely that linux was somehow involved in the ****up,
not that linux CAUSED the ****up.
rather than that the owner messed it up by pulling
out the stick, turning off the power, or whatever.
It doesnt have to be any of those, just that it clearly was stuffed up and
had linux files on it, so likely linux was involved in the stuffup somehow.
Anyway, I can think of a couple of other things to check.
He doesnt need to check anything, its working fine now.
It remains to be seen if it continues to work fine and whether the stick
does indeed have some quirks that caused the original problem.
M
mm
David Brown wrote
Nope, just that it could be interpreted more than one
way if you didnt think about what the OP had said.
Nope, that was just a stupid assumption on the reader's part.
ALL he meant was that there clearly were linux files on it,
so its likely that linux was somehow involved in the ****up,
not that linux CAUSED the ****up.
It doesnt have to be any of those, just that it clearly was stuffed up and
had linux files on it, so likely linux was involved in the stuffup somehow.
He doesnt need to check anything, its working fine now.
It remains to be seen if it continues to work fine and whether the stick
does indeed have some quirks that caused the original problem.
Well, I needed to back up some files yesterday, and it accepted 7 gigs
of files, and they are there. I haven't needed 16 gigs yet, but so
far, it's okay.
Sorry it took so long to have any answer for the question.
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John Turco
Rod said:John Turco wrote
Yes, most obviously with substance abuse and even with alcohol abuse.
FAS even produces quite distinctive effects on the appearance of the brat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_syndrome
That's very sad (although, I'd been vaguely aware of it, already); I
was only kidding, before.
And that gutless clown above in spades.
You know what, however? It seems almost >everybody< has abandoned
this newsgroup, lately. Several days have sometimes passed, with
NO posts, whatsoever.
[Folksy, himself, skipped completely out of Usenet, around two
years ago.]
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John Turco
Arno said:Ah, Folk-Nut. I think his soul suffered transfer corruption
when he was reincarnated the last time. Or he always comes
out like this....
Arno
You were always his favorite punching bag, as I recall, Arno.
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Rod Speed
John Turco wrote
Yeah, that was obvious.
Thats true of all the other tech groups too. Have a look at the gps groups sometime.
Yeah, it would be interesting to know what happened to him.
I have had a couple quite literally end up dead.
Rod Speed wrote
That's very sad (although, I'd been vaguely aware of it, already);
I was only kidding, before.
Yeah, that was obvious.
You know what, however? It seems almost >everybody<
has abandoned this newsgroup, lately. Several days have
sometimes passed, with NO posts, whatsoever.
Thats true of all the other tech groups too. Have a look at the gps groups sometime.
[Folksy, himself, skipped completely out of Usenet, around two years ago.]
Yeah, it would be interesting to know what happened to him.
I have had a couple quite literally end up dead.