OT: USB stick with write protect switch?

[Florian Diesch]

Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> writes:

> 2009/10/12 Amedee Van Gasse (u2s) <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>:
>> On Sat, October 10, 2009 22:16, Colin Law wrote:
>>> If the switch disables the write signal directly then it will be
>>> impossible to write to the device.  Though there are still three ways
>>> that I can think of that this method might still allow writing, one is
>>> hardware failure (broken switch or similar), the second is
>>> accidentally moving the switch (or maliciously I suppose) and the
>>> third is Divine Intervention.  Whether this therefore counts as a
>>> write protection method that *always* works is a matter of
>>> interpretation.
>>
>> I can think of a fourth way:
>> The C-x M-c M-butterfly command in Emacs...

It's M-x butterfly in GNU Emacs 23

> For those of us unfamiliar with Emacs, could you elucidate?

http://xkcd.com/378/



   Florian
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