On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 21:13, Lee Wiggers wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 20:58:06 -0600 > Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 09 December 2003 08:50 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: > > > Okay, I've been lurking for a week on this. > > > > > > At the usual risk of sounding stupid, what is this disk good > > > for? > > > <Whack> > > Lee, it is useful as a portable install to demonstrate to windows > > users that linux is not all that tough to comprehend. Also I think > > the main idea may be to use it on a laptop or somewhere not your > > normal station and use the usb drive to save your data, info, > > photos, whatever and cary them off with you without leaving a > > trace on the computer used. No trade secrets lost type worries to > > worry about. Just my idea of why one would use it. -- > > > "Pardon me, sir. May I use your computer to compose this secret > document and save it to my portable drive. Of course, I alway carry > my drive, but seem to have forgotten my computer." > > True, that happens to me all the time. <Snip> I've been using Knoppix for 6 months now as a rescue tool, and tested MM for the same purpose yesterday when I saved "The ONLY copy of my thesis!!! SOB!!" for a young woman who appears to know quite a lot about quantum electrodynamics but nothing at all about backups. You boot the machine, mount the remaining readable hard drive partitions (usually automatic), connect to the network (all in the GUI) and save the data to your Samba server where it should have been backed up in the first place.
You restrain yourself from announcing that you usually get paid with sexual favors for work like this by remembering that you are married to a formidable woman, the code of conduct forbids messing with students, and with the thought that a person so lacking in common sense would probably babble through the whole thing anyway. MM looks very slick. It's obviously based on the "Discovery," one CD version of 9.2, which is why you only get KDE. The down-loadable edition recognizes a USB key but has no way to save the configuration to either one of those or to a hard disk. That's what you get with the box: they recompile with one new pragma and you buy a fairly expensive USB key from them. It may even be worth it. I travel a lot and frequently have to use "strange" Windows machines to check on my email and to monitor experiments. Having an OS on a CD and USB key that I could stick into any modern PC without doing a thing to the underlying OS or leaving a trace behind and *not having to to any reconfiguring* would be a good thing. I *hate* laptops. -- N. B. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department, University of New Orleans
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