How I installed Lucid on a USB flash disc - WAS: Please, Ubuntu, do not embarrass me again!

[Basil Chupin]

On 10/06/10 20:38, Colin Law wrote:
> On 10 June 2010 09:25, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>    
>> On 10/06/10 18:03, Colin Law wrote:
>>      
>>> On 10 June 2010 07:55, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  Â wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> ...
>>>> The flash I got has a 5 year warranty. By next year there will be some
>>>> other new-fangdangled storage medium, and by then we probably will be
>>>> all running an OS which comes installed on an orange so I am not
>>>> especially worried about putting Ubuntu on this flash :-) .
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> That is interesting, a 5 year warranty that does not preclude wearing
>>> out due to excessive writes? Â I would be interested to know the
>>> device, I need to get some.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>>        
>> The one I am using for my 'experiment' is a Kingston 8GB unit.
>>
>> The other ones which I have are Corsairs - from 1 - 16GB - not only
>> faster but also have a 10-year warranty.
>>
>> But then, it all depends on what is stated in the small print, isn't it?
>> :-) (and if you keep the receipt in a book, eg, because the print will
>> fade within a shortish time if exposed to light).
>>      
> Often when you look at guarantees carefully you find they only cover
> it if it 'does not operate according to spec' or some such wording.
> If one looks carefully at the spec it may define the max number of
> supported write cycles.  Therefore if you wear it out by going over
> this limit

How they gonna that, eh? :-)


>   the guarantee will not cover it as it has met it's
> published spec.

I have looked for such a spec. but cannot find one. The only very broad 
spec. which I have come across about the max. writes is "1000" which 
also broadly applies to the number of times one can recharge a 
recharable battery - which is along the lines of the number of people - 
30 or around 30 - normally reported killed by drone attacks simply 
because "30" is a nice number accepted without question by the average 
person.


>    Therefore it is not faulty, just worn out.
>    
Of course :-) .

If people only listened very carefully, or read very carefully, and 
analysed and understood, the advertising blurb about the product being 
advertised......

BC

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