Did you ever find an Symbian based Nokia phone containing an SD in your drawer after many years? Now you want to see if there are any worthwhile photos on there. Where is the charger with the tiny coaxial power connector again? Do you still have it? Nevermind. You will just take the SD card out and put it into a laptop. What’s that? No new drive shows up! Nothing happens. Just like “Magikarp used Splash!” in a Pokémon game. Did the old SD give up the ghost? Not necessarily. It might just be locked with a password by CMD-42
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SD Password Functionality and Transcend RDF5
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Random episode from the memories of LittleSinchen
Schools…
Schools are a hostile place. Schools are a dangerous place. Schools are a place of torment. And schools can be a place of child abuse.
One quote from Hermann Hesse’s “Unterm Rad” (Beneath the Wheel) has burned itself into my brain. Since I cannot possibly translate it properly into English, I used the free version of deepl.com
(more…)“By now they had reached the country road and quickly arrived at the monastery, where all the teachers, led by the Ephorus, received the dead Hindinger, who in life would have run away at the mere thought of such an honor. Teachers always look at a dead pupil with completely different eyes than a living one; for a moment, they are convinced of the value and irretrievability of every life and youth, which they so often carelessly sin against.”
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SD Card Write Lock [Linux Laptop] [Android Tablet]
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.
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Reviving Old PC
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.
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Visit to an Apple store
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.
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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: -
Look at the road, you moron, not at your smartphone! [Sinchen Rant]
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.
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