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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 22:21:30 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: |
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> > > Incorrect. Flash memory only has a limited write lifetime, treating it |
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> > > like a hard drive will kill it in no time. |
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> > Yup. Like in three years or so... I've dropped both floppies and CD-RW |
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> > discs in favor of pendrives (1GB) |
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> more like three months if you put a frequently written directory, |
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> like /tmp or /var/log, on a flash device. |
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You can use UNIONFS for those ;) |
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Anyway, unless we're talking about different technologies, one of my USB |
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drives is working fine and it is more than a year old. And I've used it like |
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crazy (both read _and_ writes.) |
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> BTW you have PGP signed your email but your key doesn't appears to be on |
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> the keyservers. |
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Oops. The signature was supposed to be used for private mail messages only. I |
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don't trust keyservers. |
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My apologies to everyone! |
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Regards, |
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Norberto Bensa |
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4544-9692 / 15-4190-6344 |
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Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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