[H-GEN] An invitation to waste some time

Russell Stuart russell-humbug at stuart.id.au
Fri Nov 12 21:05:41 EST 2010


Firstly on the time wasting front, the booking at the Mongolian
Restaurant today is under the name "Humbug".

Secondly, here is a blog post about an investigation into some possibly
fake Kingston SD Cards:

  http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?paged=9

It wanders off into an explanation of why the cost SD Cards roughly
equal the cost of flash in them, despite the fact they contain a
micro-controller.   So you get the micro-controller for free.  Why would
that be?

And then in the comments, he explains what the bulk of the engineers at
Seagate, Western Digital and other HDD manufacturers do during the day:

  http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918#comment-511640





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