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<oerjan> le/rn bimonthly//The word "bimonthly" has at least two meanings, although this wisdom only gives about half of one. No matter which expert you follow, you\'re 50% likely to misinterpret it, or doubly so, depending on the phase of the moon.
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date Sun, 31 Dec 2017 03:48:42 +0000
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Block devices are a concession made in Unix to make raw hard disks and magnetic tape have a similar interface to regular files and terminals. Since magnetic tapes can't write individual bytes, only entire blocks, the interface isn't exactly the same, thus the dreaded dd obs= option was born.