@AdamL Sorry if it sounds weird/rude, but are you using a markov bot or something? The last couple of sentences you made sadly didn't made sense, or maybe my understanding of English just went down the drain? Just curious
@MichaelHomer there probably a whole lot depending on how you see it...(I mean, this is running in ring 0, so wouldn't be surprised of what could be considered a security hole). Then again, I don't think it's main purpose was maintaining security wise features (beside the fact there no internet?).
@MichaelHomer the main problem though would be knowing if those said "security holes" are "on-purpose" bugs or just there as a side effect of something else? (like say, if the RNG in TempleOS was introducing a weird bug or something)
it probably doesn't, but you gotta admit some of what it output is interesting depending on the context (eg: there a game you can play there, and you have to use the RNG to find "clues"...)
I'm shopping for a new external hard drive. Used almost entirely for backups.
The choices I'm seeing on Amazon India include Toshiba and Western Digital. I think my two previous exernal hard drives were also WD. But no reason not to consider something different. The prices for 2TB for WD and Toshiba differ a bit. Toshiba is more expensive.
I seem to remember from one or more articles in the past that Toshiba makes the most reliable hard drives. I don't know if this is actually true, though.
My current external drive is still working, but has be throwing two sector errors for a while. So I thought maybe I would get a new one. After all, backups need to be reliable.
that last one I sent may have problems with 3.5" hard drives though, generally they need an external power source although I have had them work with just usb power
I was just reminded of that when I did a rm *.tex command in a directory, which deleted a bunch of files. I then spent 20 minutes figuring the borg command to replace that directory.
@jesse_b Perhaps that doesn't apply so much in India.
I see people giving away old laptops on the local buy/sell sites all the time for example. Could go grab them to pull the drive and then scrap the rest
@jesse_b Unfortunately most sealed external enclosures for portable hard drives are of very low quality. They contain standard internal drives that failed QA and could not be sold alone.
You want to buy an external enclosure and put an internal drive in it.
@FaheemMitha depending on the time frame magnetic storage is more reliable in the sense that you can leave it on the shelf for 10 years and the data will still be there.