There are usually two controller chips in a USB drive (plus the flash chips) - they include the memory controller and a usb (or firewire if you happen to have one) bridge. There are "spare" cells in flash drives just the same as there are "spare" blocks on hard drives.
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Here's an article from PC Magazine detailing how to stock up on what you can carry around, bootable, as well as what utilities you can tote about worrying about (on the Windows side) things which have to have components in specific directories, entries in the registry, etc. I'm allergic to morphine my pain receptors have been exposed weekly exclusively to methadone for nearly ten years, so other pain meds may not work correctly what other meds I'm taking why all of this is so etc. I thought about marking one of them with tiny lettering: ICE ( In Case of Emergency), sort of like the fad with cell phones, but a text file with the important info, in addition to the usual phone numbers (a list, and who they are - more options than a cell phone) as I usually have them around my neck e.g. He said he rarely comes close to capacity. One of my friends, who has a 512M stick, asked me what I was going to do with 4G of stick memory and I asked him what he did with 512M. They told me to file it as a warranty issue to get a replacement cap. I had the handle (which holds it on the lanyard) break off and had to finagle a fix, but also contacted Memorex. After an hour, I wasn't sure what to do, so I ended up putting it onto my lanyard, feeling badly for not having another way to find the owner.īTW, it's said you can't (or shouldn't) format NTFS, but both of mine seem to be working fine. I don't tolerate heat very well, but I felt it was the decent thing to do. Unfortunately, they paid in ca$h? So I sat there for another hour, sitting & reading, sans A/C as it was fixed, then stopped working and I hadn't had time to take it back to be re-repaired. If they paid via credit card or cheque, it shouldn't have been a problem to track them down.
So I figured I'd do the nice nerd thing and track down the new owner. Then, I happened to be picking up some laptops for our DARPA team from a repair shop, and when I went back to my car, there was a Best Buy sack (this was on the far side of the BB parking lot) which was on the passenger side of my car, so I opened it up. I didn't want to order one and was going to my doctor's office in Chicago a couple of days after they sold out here in Indy, so I placed a pickup order there. Those things were nearly impossible to find using the StoreFinder Inventory. Not much more than some of the stores' retail prices for 1G, although I don't think anyone is going to pay the upper end of a 1G price scale. Granted, you're looking at $10+ in taxes at each level, but it's still a heck of a discount. Speaking of the drives, Best Buy just finished having a sale of Memorex 2G sticks (retail $199) for $159 at the cash register, then another $30 for the rebate.
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You can unplug them at cheap places that just buy a TV and put it on a table, but those are not the places that will be offering computers.įorget the sheets - think about the fact you're reusing the blankets from the previous parties (and the previous parties' leftovers). Just for laughs, at the next hotel you stay in that has an internet connection, try unplugging the TV. I'm sure they'll leave all that accessable where we can just unplug it at will, instead of putting in those computer cases that are sold exactly for the purpose of blocking access to the cabling while leaving the front accessable. Not to mention the 15 dollar keyboard and 5 dollar mouse they don't want people making off with. Gee, if they do that with a 30 dollar phone and a two dollar cable on it, I wonder if they'll do it with a 300 dollar computer and a two dollar cable on it. They build them into things or at the very least have the cables non-detachable. So, you think computers in hotel rooms are just going to have their cabling laying around where people can get to it?Ĭause we all know they do that with the phones and TVs.