Re: [OCLUG-Tech] SD card

2012-01-20 Thread Singer X.J. Wang
There is no on card processor on the SD cards.. S On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 16:46, Rick Leir wrote: > On 19/01/2012 3:10 PM, linux-requ...@lists.oclug.on.ca wrote: > > the actual capacity of the SD card was noticeably > > less than advertised. > From wikipedia: > All SD cards incorporate a digit

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to determine the *usable* size of an SD card?

2012-01-19 Thread Singer X.J. Wang
, respectively, by the courts. > Which is why the "proper" SI notation for file sizes as MiB and GiB is > showing up more often these days. > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Singer X.J. Wang wrote: > > >

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to determine the *usable* size of an SD card?

2012-01-19 Thread Singer X.J. Wang
I'm not going to have an the G vs Gi discuss 98% of the industries that uses the term G to mean G 2% of the industry (and not even all the computer industry) uses G to mean Gi S On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 15:02, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Singer X.J. Wa

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to determine the *usable* size of an SD card?

2012-01-19 Thread Singer X.J. Wang
That's a deviation of less then 0.5%.. that's not that bad in most industries.. S On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 14:48, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > over the last day on the beagleboard list, there was an animated > discussion that touched on the fact that some "dd" copies to SD cards > was failing sin

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] tool for fancy diagrams?

2011-12-09 Thread Singer X.J. Wang
I personally use http://www.lucidchart.com/ its not free but but the price is good and powerful.. On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:49, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm aware of the standard drawing tools (dia, kivio) but have never > had need of any sophisticated diagrams until now. here's an example

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] CarletonU VPN?

2011-10-05 Thread Singer X.J. Wang
I have found two issues with vpnc, and they seem to be: 1) the certificate mode isn't fully operable with the Cisco VPN client 2) if the Cisco VPN client is also using RSA Token for authentication, it has something called the 'Next Token Mode'. This mode is used to initialised tokens, create PINs

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] CarletonU VPN?

2011-10-04 Thread Singer X.J. Wang
My experience is that it works for 95% of Cisco VPN client does. IANACS (I Am Not A Carelton Student), but the last university I was at also said the same time. What it meant for us is that the PCF File (which contain the VPN information) has been bundled with the client for you. Just get the PCF

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] SECURITY ALERT: Phishing Attack (Fwd: Email Security Upgrade)

2011-07-08 Thread Singer X.J. Wang
I'll chime in here and agree with Richard here. Should we start warning about every security risk? - Do not shout out your DEBIT CARD NUMBER and PIN for your debit card. - Do not write down the DEBIT CARD NUMBER and PIN of your debit card on a piece of paper and mail it to Richard Briggs - Do not

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Problem

2011-01-31 Thread Singer X.J. Wang
Hold hold, I would be very careful of opening the case up and swapping the PCB at this point. Seagate offered free data recovery for drives affected by the SD15 firmware. I would strongly recommend you call Seagate take them up on the offer first. On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 09:33, wrote: > It onl