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<oerjan> # Stolen from Roger9//`learn Bureaucracy (from French bureau, "burrow") is a political system in which squirrels rule the nation, and burrow their nuts.
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date Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:43:46 +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.