[NTLUG:Discuss] USB Pen Drives
Lance Simmons
lance at lsimmons.net
Fri Nov 28 22:40:50 CST 2003
* Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> [031128 22:17]:
> I just had someone in class who bought one recently and after doing
> some googling we determined it was a lemon with regards to Linux
One great thing about Linux is that what starts out as a lemon may end
up being perfectly usable. It's prudent, of course, to check in
advance, but even if a particular piece of hardware starts out as a
lemon, it may end up being usable. Right now I'm getting ready to use a
tv mpeg encoder (the avermedia m179) that a month ago was a brick, but
as of a few days ago is quite usable.
I'm sure everyone here knew this, but it seems a good idea to mention it
once more: in the Linux world, no piece of hardware is ever permanently
a lemon.
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Lance Simmons
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