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“Un-write-protecting” an SDHC Card

Published on May 22, 2009 in Tech. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

SDHC

SDHC cards are cheap, REALLY cheap.  For this I am very grateful.  It’s awesome that you can get 16gig cards for 30 bucks.  Massive storage for all!  They are also VERY small and there isn’t a whole lot to these little cards.  The cases are flimsy and don’t have a whole lot to them.  I have a handful of cards and one of mine had it’s tiny little $0.01 write protection tab fall out.

I thought I was screwed because no matter how I tried to use this card it would not let me write to it.  The card was cheap, but I didn’t want to waste the gas and\or shipping costs of getting a new card.  I thought back to my analog days of 3.5″ floppies and cassette tapes.  I remember that these items when write protected were easily overriden with a piece of tape (or drilling a hole in the case of the cheap floppies).  I tried the same with my SDHC card and voila! I was writting away.  It turns out that the write-protectedness of the card is determined by the reader just like in the old days.  AWESOME!

Attention Publishers:

Published on June 17, 2008 in Environment. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

I love magazines. I loathe subscription cards. It’s just that simple. Every magazine is crammed with these things trying to tempt me into buying a subscription to their magazine. I can appreciate the concept as a business model, but it doesn’t make me any less annoyed.

Today, as I flip through WIRED, I do very much like the idea that their cards are nicely slipped in. This means I don’t have to tear them out leaving that annoying stub in the binding that makes it impossible to hold a page while reading. The counterpoint to this lovely feature is that they go flying out all over the place. In a busy airport this means that as I sprint from one gate to another to catch my inevitably late connection that I have two choices.  Choice A is to be a  jerk and leave a trail of garbage throughout the terminal.  Choice B is to be a friendly little twit and run around like a spaztic 4 year old calmoring for my trash.  I’ll take A in a feeble attempt to actually make my connection.