Another contact has done repeated testing on both local and remote instances of these files and has no failures. I'm suspecting the solid state drive is going south. Fortunately this computer came with two internal so I'll start using the other drive from now on and hope I can duplicate my contact's successful verifications.
Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Fri, 17 Mar 2023, davidson wrote: > On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 davidson wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> I have had multiple verification failures checking an iso with a sha256sum > >> verification file and am wondering if that program and the rest of the > >> shaxxxsum programs have one or more bugs that could account for these > >> failures. > > > > Let the sha256sum program be a box of test strips that indicate > > presence of poison. > > > > Let the files you provide the sha256sum program be a beverage. > > > > If a single test indicated poison, my first thought would not be, > > "Maybe the test strips are defective". > > Typo below: > > > And if *repeated* tests indicated poison, and did so consistently, my > > first thought would not *definitely* not be, "Maybe the test strips > > are defective". > > s/not *definitely* not/*definitely* not/ > > In other words, repeated consistent indications of poison would > confirm my first reaction: the drink is most likely poisonous. > > One can imagine situations that would cause me to doubt the test > strips, but the situation described by the OP is definitely not one of > them. > >
