Validity of the CD size limit nowadays [Re: Features/ArchitectureSupport - changing what we build for]

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Fri Feb 6 17:18:52 UTC 2009


On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:00:34 -0600,
  Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 18:10:32 -0600,
>>   Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at nospam.please> wrote:
>
> Ahem. Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies.

Right because spammers can't figure out how to undo obfusication. Or subscribe
to the lists. In any case the archives do obfusicate the addresses on the
normal web interface. Though they can pull them out of the gzip'd archives
if they really want to avoid unobfusicating them. If you are really concerned
about this, I suggest using the list address in your from header instead
of your own email address.

>
>>> Why not format it ext2/3/4? ;-) That's what I did (and went on to use 
>>>  the same stick to install Cambridge on my Asus).
>>
>> Because then it can't be used to transfer files to and from windows systems
>> without booting from it.
>
> "windows systems"? What are those? ;-)
>
> (I could also ask why you'd ever want to use such a system /without/  
> booting it from the stick so that you have a real OS :-), but I concede  
> that if you have to deal with such, then needing to install a 'doze extX  
> driver can be annoying.)

It's a useful way to transfer files from machines that aren't owned by me.
Though I normally use a luks encrypted USB drive that I wouldn't enter the
password for on someone else's box no matter what the OS. Eventually I'll
get another one and probably keep one that is for insecure use and then I
might as well use NTFS so I am not as limited in which OS's I can use it
with. And it may have a live OS on it to boot.




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