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Years ago, we got hit with a ground strike, which took out the Fax, the telephone exchange, a hardware engineer who had to get extremely drunk to forget it, and every single IDE disk controller card in the building whether the computer was powered or not. If it was plugged in, the card failed - replaced each card and all computers survived.
Unlike the company down the road which had a VAX connected to a UPS. No electrical damage, but the lead acid cells exploded and ate the PCBs out of the computer...
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Wow! That is a serious lightning strike.
Amazing it took out computers which weren't even plugged in.
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That's the EMP lopatir mentioned.
I've been told by the dad of an aquaintance, that they had a lightning strike a tree next to their summer house. Despite everything being disconnected only the electric mixer survived.
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Wow!
Jörgen Andersson wrote: Despite everything being disconnected only the electric mixer survived
That sinks it. I'm building my next computer, wifi router, etc out of parts made from KitchenAid mixers. 
Also, I'm going to start storing everything in large lead trunks. Wait, no, i'm going to line the walls of my house with lead. That should be safe. 
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Copper mesh, or better gold mesh - you want the best conductor, not the densest material which stops Gamma radiation.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Copper mesh, or better gold mesh
Silver is an even better conductor than gold, and it's a lot cheaper!
(OTOH, it tarnishes  )
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OriginalGriff wrote: which stops Gamma radiation
It's too late, I've already been affected and now when I get angry I Hulk* out.
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Not meaning to be flippant, but lucky you!
A couple of years ago I was sailing off the coast of Turkey, and we got zapped by lightning. My boat is in no way earthed to the sea, so the 22 metre metal stick in the middle takes on the potential of the air, not the water, and that saved our bacon. The first strike hit the water 20 metres to port, and the second 15 metres to starboard. Had they actually hit the boat it (and us) would probably have been destroyed.
It wrote off US$20k of marine electronics in about 2 seconds.
...and no, there wasn't a voice from the middle of the thunder clouds "F&*k it, missed again."
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Chris C-B wrote: sailing off the coast of Turkey, and we got zapped by lightning.
Now that would be really scary.
Great story.
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Phone line.
It is always vulnerable in a lightening strike. I lost my internet box due to one once and always disconnect it now. Main protection is of course just on the power supply.
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I like the one from DMC very much, but the original one has more drive 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Looking forward to this[^] hitting the market. Hope the price is not over the top.
Michael Martin
Australia
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- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Trouble is that you're probably looking at spending about the same money again to get the RAM it should have to start with...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Trouble is that you're probably looking at spending about the same money again to get the RAM it should have to start with...
I reckon I have at least a dozen 4GB DDR3 SODIMMs and probably a couple of 8GB laying around, so no issues there.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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A couple things I'm surprised are missing / lacking from their spec:
USB ports?
GPIO / SPI interface?
It looks a like a cool product, but I wouldn't consider it a rPi opponent/competitor in that particular market if all it's providing is 8 digital I/O lines.
As to running Windows, hmm, ok, but I find the support for Linux/Python on rPi, Beaglebone, etc., to be excellent, and I'm quite content writing Python (and even C code) for hardware interface stuff.
I also wonder about power consumption.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: A couple things I'm surprised are missing / lacking from their spec:
USB ports?
GPIO / SPI interface?
Looking at the board, it says USB 3.0 and there seems to be 2 ports next to the LAN ports. Also there is a jumper that says GPIO_SET so maybe GPIO is there. Noticed there is a SIM slot in the middle too.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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They appear to've updated the spec page since you commented. The images are now showing 2 blue USB ports (presumably 3.0), and list "Digital I/O 8-in/8-out".
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I am in the process of cloning (as a C++ guy, I know what the proper term is) over large (multi-GB) directory trees from the system drive [C:] to an external drive. The number of dirs & files and the Size is the same, but the Size on Disk is different. Could it simply be that different hardware will allocate the same amount of space of each file differently? Do I have a frag problem? Do I have a disc error? (The external drive is brand spanking new, but the system drive is 2+ years old.)
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One possibility:
The disks may have different storage unit sizes. I believe the size on the disk is the number of storage units occupied, multiplied by the size in bytes of one unit. The final unit occupied by a file is rarely fully occupied. The unused part of the final unit is "wasted".
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Differing "Block Size", "Cluster Size", or in the Format dialog in Windows, "Allocation unit size", all refer to the same thing.
You don't have a problem at all.
Read this[^]
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The destination could have compression?
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As already said, you most likely copied the files to another volume that has a different block / allocation unit size.
Jeremy Falcon
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Another complication to watch for:
the source may have junctions and/or shortcuts which if not tested the cloning process would probably copy as unique separate instances of the same original file/folder.
You must test FileAttributes.ReparsePoint. - for junctions you have to re-create brand new instances from scratch of that same shortcut/junction on the destination - they can't be copied even if using kernel32.dll CopyFile().
(See codeproject.com/Articles/15633/Manipulating-NTFS-Junction-Points-in-NET - some sloppy code and it's missing recreating the PrintName info, but with a bit of fixing/cleaning up does the job.)
In the User folder(s) for instance there are junctions that create circular/infinite references if blindly followed as ordinary folders.
Note: Applies to shadow copies too - which I'm sure you're using to avoid errors on locked/in-use files.
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