Floppies becoming obsolete, thumb drive recommendation

[jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz)]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 07:29:10PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:48:30 -0500
> Matt Freymiller <stir_frey at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > I received the Lexar jumpdrive 256mb as a gift from where I work. :-)
> > I have had no problems with it under windows or Linux. The specific
> > model number I think is jdsp256-04-500a. I even stepped on it and bent
> > the usb connector on it and it still works fine. It slants towards the
> > ground now mind you, but works fine.
> Today at a meeting I popped someone's drive into my laptop (SuSE 9.1 2.6
> Kernel). As soon as I popped it in, it automatically mounted and
> Konqueror came up. 

Excellent, a new vector for virii (viruses, that is... )


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