SD cards are really versatile and powerful storage media. Unfortunately much of their interesting functionality is more or less unused. You will have quite some fun reading the easily available PDF file “SD Specifications Part 1 Physical Layer Simplified Specification” (currently version 9.10 with >400 pages).
Two features are of great interest for me: write lock and password protection. This entry will be (again) about setting SDs to read-only.
(more…)My madness must have reached a new maximum. For no reason I decided trying to reactivate an old PC. The motherboard, ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe, once had been the basis for my main PC. Bought about 2006 and upgraded over time it ended up with 8GB DDR2 RAM and 4*2TB HDD with a hardware RAID5 controller.
(more…)Well not really an Apple store, but a reseller featuring only Apple products. Other than the legal difference (not a shop run by Apple) there is probably nothing really different. For simplicity I’ll just go with “Apple store” from now on.
In my effort of improving computer security and moving out of my comfort zone I thought it would be nice to learn a bit about the overpriced bitten windfall fruit technology. So I went to the store with a friendly smile and told the guy what was my goal: Improving my computer security and learn about Apple by asking an expert in a shop dedicated to selling Apple products. I’m even ready for getting a Mac Mini if the price is okay. But visiting the Apple shop turned out to be a fiasco:
Really, I’ve enough of people behaving that way! I see it all the time, everywhere: Somebody stares at their smartphone, mesmerized, is not noticing anything around them!
No matter if pedestrians, cyclists or motorists: In all of these groups are lots and lots of members who are unable to do without their phone for just five minutes.