From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBcXk-0006F8-0C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 18:15:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j83IAhO5005836; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 18:10:43 GMT Received: from dir.bg (mail.dir.bg [194.145.63.28]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j83Hxfj2032349 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 17:59:41 GMT Received: from [217.30.222.4] (account rumen_yotov HELO mach.qrypto.org) by dir.bg (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 16449447 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 21:02:30 +0300 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Thumbdrive From: Rumen Yotov To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200509031445.23607.nbensa@gmx.net> References: <558b73fb05090216063e86d8f0@mail.gmail.com> <200509022221.32724.nbensa@gmx.net> <20050903090018.5da1ab08@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200509031445.23607.nbensa@gmx.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-p0u0T9KANaxrDKR5zwiu" Organization: private Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 21:02:26 +0300 Message-Id: <1125770546.13670.12.camel@mach.qrypto.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 X-Archives-Salt: 5472667e-c6bd-4d6b-b99f-a8202afee8a7 X-Archives-Hash: 178a065b8471ddd49c85320d1bbca004 --=-p0u0T9KANaxrDKR5zwiu Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, OT here On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 14:45 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 22:21:30 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > > > Incorrect. Flash memory only has a limited write lifetime, treating= it > > > > like a hard drive will kill it in no time. > > > > > > Yup. Like in three years or so... I've dropped both floppies and CD-R= W > > > discs in favor of pendrives (1GB) > > > > more like three months if you put a frequently written directory, > > like /tmp or /var/log, on a flash device.=20 >=20 > You can use UNIONFS for those ;) > Anyway, unless we're talking about different technologies, one of my USB=20 > drives is working fine and it is more than a year old. And I've used it l= ike=20 > crazy (both read _and_ writes.) >=20 >=20 > > BTW you have PGP signed your email but your key doesn't appears to be o= n > > the keyservers. >=20 > Oops. The signature was supposed to be used for private mail messages onl= y. I=20 > don't trust keyservers.=20 >=20 Why you don't trust the keyservers, you (or any other person which already has your signature) could always check if your signature is authentic (or you can update it if need be). Your choice of course. > My apologies to everyone!=20 >=20 >=20 > Regards, > --=20 > Norberto Bensa > 4544-9692 / 15-4190-6344 > Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Rumen --=-p0u0T9KANaxrDKR5zwiu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDGeUyw4vKYiLy/AsRAhUKAJ9Ci5Z4iAfaFmTi88VXK/hl+drQTACgipGo +Gw6xPr1qICM9KfSkWnnP8U= =9tzu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-p0u0T9KANaxrDKR5zwiu-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list