Search:

Enter 'sandisk wear level' in google search box.
It's the first return entry.
URL is too long to contend with.

19.5k is a pretty stingy limit for pdf files.
Who do we know in management we can complain to?

@mecho & krishna

Oops, my bad.
File too big for upload.
Go to SanDisk site and look for WPaperWearLevel1.0-1.pdf.
This is a 138k pdf file.

Some neat equations, too.

The attachment, if all goes well shows SanDisk examples
of Flash Card lifetimes in decades, centuries and millenia.

Cheers

@krishna

Hi, Krishna.

I was hoping one of you smart folks knew some magic command
that would tell me how many write cycles I have left before
my SD Card self-destructs.

On HDD's there is...

@mecho, re your post #27

Is there any way to know how many writes have been made
to a flash card? Or how many are left?

@mecho

I think this idea has some elegance.

However, If X dies, won't we want a log to refer to
on next boot to a command line to see what went wrong?

Summary regarding observed .xsession-errors in Knoppix 6.2.1, Flash/usb version:

By far, the greatest number of .xsession errors were due to 'XID collision warning's
due to Flash-content. The...

@mecho

Thanks again, mecho.

Concerning my .xsession-errors, 'types one and two':
I'm not having much luck deleting the .desktop entries. Anyway,
I'd like to understand this PolicyKit stuff a...

knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ ls -l ~/.config/autostart
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 knoppix knoppix 4832 Jul 7 09:05 nm-applet.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 knoppix knoppix 2532 Jul 7 09:05...

@Mecho

Thanks for your reply.
Here's what I get for the polkit suggestion.

#### Regarding /etc/xdg/autostart:
knoppix@Microknoppix:/$ ls -l /etc/xdg/autostart gives
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1...

Upgrading IceWeasel from 3.5.6 to 3.5.10 has reduced most of the flash-video-induced .xsession errors here. I have codified a remaining six types of non-flash-related .xsession errors that I...

I have recently upgraded IceWeasel from 3.5.6 to 3.5.10-1. These .xsession-errors, many related to Flash video are at least much reduced, if not gone. My Knoppix 6.2.1 has, at present libgtk2.0-0...

I've learned a few things since my post #1 on .xsession-errors:

1. This topic has an enormous history I wasn't aware of.

2. I was surprised to discover this 'gem' in Knoppix; I'm even
more...

@krishna.

I enjoy my 200 shares of Apple stock, but I don't own any of their products.
My shock wave seems to work ok; shows You Tube here just fine. No crashes.
It just fills .xsession-errors...

So here's one type, representing 3/4 of my .xsession-errors:

(firefox-bin:####): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

The four digits #### are not always the same.

This occurs...

@mecho

Most welcome. There are some other ideas in the Bug 60448 thread you may enjoy.

Relative to the Bug 60448 mentioned earlier, the whole thread there is interesting, and still open.
I...

quoted link should be:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/60448

my bad.

@ mecho

Nice response. Sorry I can't help out on alsa, I'm not up on that.
I like your solution with gconftool-2, since it solves the problem.
I'm not in favor of trashing the errors...

With other linux distros, I usually peruse /var/log files to see if
my system is complaining about anything. In my copy of Knoppix 6.2.1
/var/log is almost bare, except for Xorg.0.log and a puny...