While driving today I noticed some really strong sun dogs and I just had to take a picture 🙂
It’s edited a little bit to help make it clearer through my car window, but it was still awesome!
Month: November 2018
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More Fake Flash Fun
Like last time, I’ve come into ownership of a suspicious flash drive that holds a secret: It’s actually a micro SD card and reader… and completely broken 🙂
Warning: Only 120992 of 120993 MByte tested. The media is likely to be defective. 33.1 GByte OK (69490999 sectors) 85.0 GByte DATA LOST (178300617 sectors) Details:371.5 KByte overwritten (743 sectors) 0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors) 85.0 GByte corrupted (178299874 sectors) 371.5 KByte aliased memory (743 sectors) First error at offset: 0x0000000848b26e00 Expected: 0x0000000848b26e00 Found: 0x286fe2ee6fa575a5 H2testw version 1.3 Writing speed: 9.79 MByte/s Reading speed: 3.36 MByte/s H2testw v1.4
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Fake Flash Adventures
I recently purchased a “256 GB” flash drive for $3. I knew this had to be fake, but I was also curious about how it worked. It turns out that there was a “256 GB” micro SD card inside of it and I’m pretty sure that’s fake.
I didn’t get this on Amazon, but here’s a link to basically the same generic thing:
Here’s a copy of the Amazon item page as of the writing of this post. Using the great program H2testw I was able to determine how much actual storage the device had:
Warning: Only 255988 of 255989 MByte tested. The media is likely to be defective. 29.5 GByte OK (62042393 sectors) 220.4 GByte DATA LOST (462221031 sectors) Details:1.1 MByte overwritten (2300 sectors) 0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors) 220.4 GByte corrupted (462218731 sectors) 1.0 MByte aliased memory (2160 sectors) First error at offset: 0x00000007644c3200 Expected: 0x00000007644c3200 Found: 0x0000000000000000 H2testw version 1.3 Writing speed: 9.09 MByte/s Reading speed: 10.3 MByte/s H2testw v1.4Turns out, it’s a little under 30 gigs. Well, at least I’ve got a good 30 gigs I can use 🙂
Of course, I’m not going to trust this for anything important at all, so I’m going to stick it in my Nintendo Switch to use for extra storage. If it fails, then I’ll just need to re-download any games stored on it. No biggie.
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Quick Tip: DreamHost cron and WP-CLI
If you’re hosting your WordPress website on DreamHost, and use their cron system to offload your WordPress faux-cron for better reliability, be careful of what version of PHP you have in your code.
I recently had an issue where my cron events weren’t firing, and after enabling email output, I ended up with something like this PHP error message:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '?' in /path/to/file.php on line 123It turns out that WP-CLI was running PHP 5.x via the DreamHost cron system. I had PHP 7.x specific code in my theme.
To fix this, I had to set theWP_CLI_PHPenvironment variable in my cron job:export WP_CLI_PHP=/usr/local/php72/bin/php wp cron event run --due-now --path=/home/path/to/wp/ --url=https://example.com/Code language: JavaScript (javascript)
