David Fletcher wrote: >>As to flash disks, which were mentioned, >>mine have always worked perfectly - >>if one didn't come up automatically I'd put it down to a temporary glitch. >>I certainly wouldn't change distributions because of that. >>That seems to me a bit like selling a house because a bulb has gone. > > Well, I like my backups. Backups are more than nice, they're essential. > > But they're no damn good to anybody if they can't be copied off the > machine onto some sort of media that can be carried off site. If I understood correctly, the original claim was not that flash disks did not work, but that it did not come up automatically when plugged in. This doesn't seem very significant to me. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
