there will come a time when you aren't ashamed if you are fat

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Assunto:  there will come a time when you aren't ashamed if you are fat
De:       Maurice Kinal
Data:     Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:59:00 +0000
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Hej Wilfred!

>> Also have many bootable compact flash disks

> That would be interesting to find out!

Heh, heh.  I see a kernel panic in my minds eye.  With a proper usb adapter they might be mountable and hopefully readable.  I am sure they are ext2 formatted and all my currently running kernels can handle it.  Boot?  That would require older hardware that doesn't exist here.  Mind you neither does the usb adapter for compact flash.  I have a bunch of waterproof totes in storage and maybe one of these days when I get curious enough I'll dig through and see if I can find them.  Probably in the same tote with 5.25" and 3.5" floppies as well as CDs, DVDs, and other assorted obsolete media such as tapes.  I was known the 9 track tape guru way back in the VAX/VMS days.

> And even old HDD's that no longer work at all, or show lots of
> read errors...

Them too.  I am still using 4 3.5" sata drives on one of my machines.  I've even booted one of them recently.  Their warranties have long expired.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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