[ale] Linux install breaking windows?

[mike at trausch.us]

On 02/09/2012 02:51 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:51 PM, mike at trausch.us
> <mailto:mike at trausch.us> <mike at trausch.us <mailto:mike at trausch.us>> wrote:
> 
>     On 02/09/2012 12:36 PM, James Sumners wrote:
>     > Read the last sentence of mine that you quoted. Hard drives can be
>     > connected in the same way. Shocking, but true.
> 
>     Unless we're talking about some REALLY new hardware with USB 3, there is
>     *no* way on this planet I could actually work off of USB.  I'd rarely
>     get anything done, as much I/O as I tend to need to do in my work.
> 
> 
> well, duh! You're using emacs !

It is less that I am an emacs user (I would run that from a flash drive
without any issues whatsoever) and more the fact that sometimes I have
to process 100+ GB data sets which are simply only economical on hard
disk drives.

Hell, Thunderbird eats up more disk I/O resources than Emacs ever does
(or probably will).  Evolution, too.

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”

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