[ale] OT: USB Memory Sticks at Microcenter

[Paul Borghese]

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