Hi CHARLES! :-)

 CA> If I remember correctly being _able_ to eject a CD at
 CA> inappropriate times without un-mounting it was one of the
 CA> complaints about supermount mentioned in a message base I was
 CA> reading? 
Must be ancient history. There are a few drives that are unable to lock
their doors and very old kernels didn't offer the possibility. It's also
not much of a problem for a CD since they're read-only and not much is
going to happen to your data if it gets ejected without umounting.

 CA> When I meet young people who claim to program in multiple
 CA> languages sequentially that use very similar syntax I can only
 CA> assume that they are very tolerant of their own mistakes and
 CA> never expect to write working code the first (or second) time
 CA> that they try to. 
I don't have much of a choice. I currently have a student's job at
university teaching lower semesters to program in Haskell, and the stuff I
do for my diploma thesis involves programming in Standard ML. ;)

 CA> If webpages weren't so over-done with graphics, animation, and
 CA> clientside scripting we could all be a bit safer. :-) 
Since that is not going to change :(, the browser writers will have to
provide more security, such as only running plugins in a secured
environment, WITHOUT access to any files on the system and without the
ability to call other programs.

 CA> I think this happened to my son-in-law at EDS more than once.
 CA> The cleanup and transfer of database files stopped dead in the
 CA> middle of the night and put all other jobs behind by many hours
 CA> because there was no one to reply "y" to a prompt. LOL 
Very annoying if the problem didn't show up in testing but only in real use.

 CA> It seems your MO drive and disks are the only working long term
 CA> storage media for non-business users I can find at this time. 
Seems to be the case, at least if you want something that is known to be
reliable. MOs have existed for over 20 years and so experience with them
exists and proves that you really can trust those things for 10+ years.

 CA> Or very paranoid for awhile as I have done. :-) 
Doesn't mean they're not really after you. ;)

Ciao
Pascal

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