On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com>wrote:
> [...]
> At this point, I think we should all forget I asked that question,
> because neither your explanation nor Joel Rees' explanation caused me
> to understand this distinction, and yet:
>
Saying this kind of thing to a guy like me is just like throwing a stick
for a dog to chase. :)
> [...]
> I think everyone has little dark corners of stupid tucked away in the
> far reaches of their brains, and we've just stumbled upon one of mine,
> but it's not hurting the way I compute.
>
On the other hand, it sounds less like you don't understand and more like
you just aren't quite comfortable with your understanding. (Or you are
teasing us, after all. 8-*)
To which I recommend something like
hexdump -C /dev/sr0 | more
and
hexdump -C debian-7.2.0-i386-netinst.iso | more
<;-p
--
Joel Rees
Computer memory is just fancy paper
and the CPU and I/O devices are just fancy pens.
