something funny I thought of

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:05 pm

When windows XP says it's now safe to remove a device, they are putting themselves at risk, because people sue for anything in the states, and get away with it. Now imagine this scenario:

The USB port is behind a computer that is under a desk, in an odd location. So the person does the regular task of doing the eject, and windows says it is now safe to remove the hardware, so the person gets under the desk to remove it, gets up, smashes skull open against the keyboard support and dies.

But Windows said it was safe! Time for the lawsuit.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:14 pm

lol thought that one up during a boring lecture?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:34 pm

Actually I always found that funny when it says that it's "safe", and I nearly bashed my head, then I thought, "but I thought this was safe?"

Then you get the random dells that just eat your usb key and turn it into a regular key chain rather then a storage device.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:43 pm

Even better. On my PC at home, my 2 SATA hard drive show up in that 'safely remove hardware' dialog. If I accidentally decided to 'safely remove' those devices, no doubt that would cause windows to run into a few issues

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 12:41 am

lol thats interesting. Maybe your sata controller supports hot swap or something.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:20 pm

maybe, but the drives are internal, and I don't have a raid set up, so it's not really practical

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upload420 · Post by **upload420** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:09 am

what is a raid anyways i never knew

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:06 am

Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks

basically you link up a bunch of hard drives together and make them act like one disk. There are a bunch of different ways you can do it, but on 3 are really popular.

0 - striping. the computer breaks up the data between the drives. This speeds things up a bit as the load is distributed between the drives. But if you lose one drive, you lose all your data.

1 - mirror. The same data is written to each drive, so you always have a perfect backup.

5 - striping with error correction. Similar to 0, but with error correction data written with the regular data. This way if a drive goes bad, you can swap in a new one and rebuild the data on the bad drive from the other drives in the raid.

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