Yeha, I was thinking of creating a sort of “thumbdrive computer” for myself, a small thumdrive with my own OS and all my files, so I can plug it in anywhere and it’ll work. I’m worried about all drivers, tho… but alright, we’ll see. I’ll post updates later!
Anyway, dad has taken his work laptop with him, an old PowerBook G4, but still, it’s awesome playing around with. Or, excuse me, not playing around with, “touching”, more like. Cause I don’t get to do a lot with it, which I believe is very good.. xD
And tomorrow, I’m off for tzeh Pixelwhore =D so, Nothing from me this weekend I suppose. Unless the strangles me and forces me to update.
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maxi · February 18, 2010 at 6:05 pm
FIRST!!!!
ok now lets read..
( teehee thats long time ago )
maxi · February 18, 2010 at 6:06 pm
Hehe ill force tova to force you to update just to get an update >:) UNLESS u have a skype party with me
btw im sorry i ruined my reputation as serious reader that stepped out of the first game but i just had to do it…
BN · February 18, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Omfg. I was sleepin when U replied -> unfair!
Ok, indeed, let’s read teh post nao XD
BN · February 18, 2010 at 6:23 pm
DS, I have a highly mobile dev environment (almost all my apps are on usb media), and have been thinking about simply putting a whole OS on one, like you suggest, about a year ago. I’ve come to the conclusion that this would not be piratical though, for several reasons, including the fact that it would go SLOW (yarly), and that you’d need to format your drive and reinstall the os frequently (thumbdrives get slow after a while when doing a lot of writing on them).
Just get an U3 or something – way more practical (assuming you use windowz).
Tova (pixelwhore) · February 18, 2010 at 7:48 pm
Im too awesome for this world.
BN · February 19, 2010 at 12:02 am
Agreed – you should definitely kill yourself to prevent the universe from blowing up.
Author comment by Deletedscreen · February 19, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Uh BN, wat.?
USB Thumbdrive OS test #1 failed. Buying a laptop atm. cya.
Ricky · February 19, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Thats another thing why we cant get along Tova, your too awesome and I’m too awesome…
This world cant contain too much awesomeness… So one of us has to go, and clearly Screeny loves me moar >:D
Jailout2000 · April 1, 2010 at 1:52 am
A “thumbdrive computer” is possible, but not practical.
As said before, it would run slow with the modern OS’s such as Windows Vista/7. Windows XP is even questionable. Mac OS X I wouldn’t even touch. The only OS I would dream about putting on a thumb-drive would be Linux. Linux is built for security, but I’ve also noticed that some distributions are also built for speed.
I had the same idea about 2 weeks ago, except I knew a thumb-drive would never do the job the way it is needed, so I thought of an external hard drive. A Western Digital My Passport would probably work for what I’m thinking.
1. You can bring the My Passport anywhere using USB 2.0, including school.
2. On a PC, you can enter the BIOS (if the password is not set!) and choose to boot off of the drive.
3. You can treat the My Passport just like a regular hard drive but is instead connected through USB. This means you can partition it, install system and personal software on it, and even install an OS on it.
I want to test a WD My Passport out (anywhere from 40 GB or more) and install Fedora 12 onto it that way I can see just how well an OS works on a USB drive. Problem is I don’t have any portable storage except for a Sandisk 2 GB flash drive. Good luck fitting any OS with GUI-enabled interfaces into 2 GB of file space.
Author comment by Deletedscreen · April 1, 2010 at 2:55 pm
@Jailout I actually tried that with external harddrive and haven’t succeeded yet…