{"id":126,"date":"2007-03-21T07:15:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T15:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2007-03-21T07:15:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T15:15:16","slug":"new-thumb-drive-w00t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/new-thumb-drive-w00t\/","title":{"rendered":"New thumb drive &#8211; w00t!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I drove down to the office supply store and bought a new USB thumb drive, viz., an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officedepot.com\/ddSKU.do?level=SK&amp;id=564177&amp;x=0&amp;Ntt=ativa+usb&amp;y=0&amp;uniqueSearchFlag=true&amp;An=text3\">Ativa U3 smart drive<\/a>. I ferry data back and forth from home to work with one of these, and it would often fill up. That&#8217;s not likely to happen with the new one, which has 2GB capacity. (Actually a little less; it&#8217;s that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Binary_prefix#Hard_disk_drives\">10^3 vs. 2^10 business<\/a> again.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I insert the drive into my USB port, I get two devices mounted: a read-only CD-ROM, plus the writable FAT-formatted disc. The stuff on the &#8220;CD-ROM&#8221; is apparently what U3 is all about: some kind of automatic backup software I can&#8217;t use since I don&#8217;t have windows. (Like I care; I doubt I&#8217;d like it as much as I like <a href=\"http:\/\/samba.anu.edu.au\/rsync\/\">rsync<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo. It&#8217;s the sort of thing that makes you realize how much you take for granted. Like filesystems that don&#8217;t suck, for example, the way <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_Allocation_Table\">FAT<\/a> does. Or rsync. Or not being in that whole preloaded-crippleware ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drove down to the office supply store and bought a new USB thumb drive, viz., an Ativa U3 smart drive. I ferry data back and forth from home to work with one of these, and it would often fill up. That&#8217;s not likely to happen with the new one, which has 2GB capacity. (Actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-22","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}