Thumbdrive Uses

[gfish]

I just got a free 256MB thumbdrive from work. I doubt I'll use it for transferring files much, since that is why we invented networks a couple decades back, but it seems like it could useful for copies of utilities and data I'd like to guarantee I always have available. I just loaded it with putty, pscp, a collection of favorite etexts and my PDFs of the Machinery's Handbook. What else should I add?

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[tithonium.livejournal.com]

Because of the cost of sat uplinks, Jeff was saying that he was semi-seriously suggesting the use of such drives for the next off-site rover test. For one thing, driving thumbdrives back and forth between the lab and the rover would accurately reflect the time delay of an off-planet system.