EMC is marketing Solid State Flash Drives and my project is thinking about moving that direction in the future. Does anyone have any experience with replacing traditional disk storage with flash drives? Besides price, have you experienced any downsides to the technology? ...
I know putting code into VSS in general is as safe as putting money into a mutual fund run by Bernard Madoff, but I don't have the luxury of ditching it for subversion. That said, I need to be able to write code on two machines, I'm considering checking out code to a flash thumb drive. Anyone know in advance what I should/shouldn't do ...
I want to put Linux on a USB flash drive in order to run some extension to Pure Data that aren't support for Windows. Is there a particular distro that everyone is using for Linux on a flash drive? ...
From the iPhone Programming Guide When creating files or writing out file data, keep the following guidelines in mind: Minimize the amount of data you write to the disk. File operations are relatively slow and involve writing to the Flash disk, which has a limited lifespan. Some specific tips to help you minimize file-rel...
So I do a lot of work on a school computer. We can't install anything but we have most of our tools on our flash drives but I was wondering if there's a way to get Command Prompt to use Mercurial off of my Flash Drive. Let's say in theory that Mercurial's files were on my flash drive, where would I go from there? ...
I have a machine in a remote location that contains an SD card slot as its only output. I would like to read the output without needing to physically go to the machine and remove the card. My idea is to place a PC next to the machine and connect the SD card slot of the machine to a USB or serial port or some other input on the PC. Is t...