On Monday 24 Mar 2003 11:49 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 01:38, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Sunday 23 Mar 2003 11:01 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 12:09, Dave Laird wrote:
> > > CD-R: Write once and it's gone.
> > > CD-RW: Write a few times, but each write needs
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 01:38, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 23 Mar 2003 11:01 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 12:09, Dave Laird wrote:
> > CD-R: Write once and it's gone.
> > CD-RW: Write a few times, but each write needs to be done in a different
> > machine (either that or your s
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 02:09, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> On Monday 24 de March 2003 03:11, eric huff wrote:
> > Not sure about linux compatibility, but i recently used one of those
> > little, flash based usb drives (about the size of a key fob). I've seen
> > them listed up to 512MB... Seemed like a
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 22:05, James Sparenberg wrote:
...
> One media I've used for small installs that works well is compact
> flash. A 64mb cf disk with an adapter shows up as an ide device and you
> can boot from it. I had it hooked into an old pentium 233 for a while
> (till enough hw died tha
Linux compatible yes, but not bootable.
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 22:11, eric huff wrote:
> Not sure about linux compatibility, but i recently used one of those little,
> flash based usb drives (about the size of a key fob). I've seen them listed
> up to 512MB... Seemed like a great way to transfer d
> >
> > There are also USB "adaptors" for IDE drives. They are like
> > a case inside of which you put and connect your IDE drive
> > (a CD burner, any HD...) and it plugs to the PC thru USB
> > ports. It's a little big, especially if you need to carry it around,
> > but it's unbeatable in many asp
Anne Wilson wrote:
That sounds interesting. I presume it's not particularly fast?
USB1 would be slow, but Firewire (which we have going here) or USB2 run
faster than the drive :)
FWIW, our backup regime on our (mixed Linux, OS X, W2K) LAN is rsync or
2nd copy to an IDE drive in a removeable cr
On Monday 24 Mar 2003 10:09 am, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> On Monday 24 de March 2003 03:11, eric huff wrote:
> > Not sure about linux compatibility, but i recently used one of those
> > little, flash based usb drives (about the size of a key fob). I've seen
> > them listed up to 512MB... Seemed lik
On Monday 24 de March 2003 03:11, eric huff wrote:
> Not sure about linux compatibility, but i recently used one of those
> little, flash based usb drives (about the size of a key fob). I've seen
> them listed up to 512MB... Seemed like a great way to transfer data
> amongst youselves, but too exp
On Sunday 23 Mar 2003 11:01 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 12:09, Dave Laird wrote:
> CD-R: Write once and it's gone.
> CD-RW: Write a few times, but each write needs to be done in a different
> machine (either that or your secure machine has the CD-writer, in which
> case it's only
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 19:43, David E. Fox wrote:
> > Indeed. The industry seems to have decided that the floppy is a dead
> > media -- that's fine, as they do suck, but I wish the industry would
>
> Well they are convenient but offer so limited storage as to not be
> all that useful anymore. And z
Not sure about linux compatibility, but i recently used one of those little,
flash based usb drives (about the size of a key fob). I've seen them listed
up to 512MB... Seemed like a great way to transfer data amongst youselves,
but too expensive to give away. The cheapest i saw with a 2 second g
Both your post and Dave Fox's miss the point of hardware
write-protection, unfortunately. Have a look at
http://leaf.sourceforge.net and think about building a firewall that you
can trust the boot media of... CD-R is good, but who wants to burn a new
CD-R everytime something changes? There are work
> Indeed. The industry seems to have decided that the floppy is a dead
> media -- that's fine, as they do suck, but I wish the industry would
Well they are convenient but offer so limited storage as to not be
all that useful anymore. And zip / ls-120 aren't as common and nowhere
near standard equi
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'Afternoon, Jack...
On Sunday 23 March 2003 03:01 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
> What else would you store usually read-only but occasionally modified
> configs on?
Why, a slightly-aged Iomega Zip Drive, of course! 8-) It took some juggling,
but I even m
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 12:09, Dave Laird wrote:
...
>
> Your statements about hysteresis are *still* quite timely today. I don't
> remember where, but there was a disk warehouse in Los Angeles selling those
> floppy disk test kits even as recently as six months ago. Floppy disk drives
> are *so* no
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