[ale] OT: USB Memory Sticks at Microcenter

[James P. Kinney III]

DANG!!! I bought several of the 1G a few months back ans they were $15
and the 2G were $35.

I   n e e d   m o r e  !

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 19:39 -0500, Paul Borghese wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I just returned from Microcenter (in Norcross) and they are selling 2 Gig
> USB memory sticks for $15.  They also have 1 Gig. version for $9.
> 
> I currently use a 1 Gig stick as a persistent drive for the Ubuntu live CD.
> How it works is you connect a specially formatted memory stick to the
> computer then boot off the Live CD.  Any changes made to the file system are
> written to the memory stick. Next time you boot, all changes, files, etc.
> are restored from the memory stick.  
> 
> With a 2 Gig. memory stick I should have enough room to ditch the CD and
> have Ubuntu boot directly from the memory stick ... now that is cool!
> 
> Take care,
> 
> 
> Paul Borghese
> 
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