cheap usb memory sticks & livecds.

This seems ridiculously cheap.
A number of times in the last week I've ordered stuff from amazon where the shipping has cost more than the item. (I have amazon prime, so get free shipping, but this doesn't work for 3rd party sellers using Amazon as a storefront).

Curiosity got the better of me, and even with the shipping making it ~$10, it still seemed like a great deal for 4GB, so I ordered one. The Fedora livecd-iso-to-disk script makes it pretty simple to create a bootable usb stick preloaded with Fedora. 4GB is a pretty usable amount of space. (It's that same that I had on my first eeepc, which proved more than adequate). Hopefully it's not something substandard with a low number of write-cycles, or slow speed or the like. I guess I'll know in a week. If this works out though, I think I'll never have to bother carrying a rescue CD with me every time I travel.

Syndicated 2008-10-04 20:29:59 from Dave Jones recollection of stuff that happened.