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Originally posted by locovaca View Posthttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820313060
$7 shipped. Save the blank CDs for when you *really* need optical media.
Most of the conventions I've been to recently didn't have any freebie thumb drives, otherwise I'd already have picked one up. Conference swag has gone downhill over he last few years
And yes, I do have a spindle of blank DVDs laying around. At the rate that I burn new discs, they should last a while:
- Windows/office/VS through the educational downloads sites
- an ubuntu cd every 6-12 months
- that's about it. All backups go to USB hard drives and mirrored raid.
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Originally posted by Veerappan View PostFor the 3+ people that have already responded: i'm mostly waiting for a nice usb3/esata model that is also priced nicely.... And for a motherboard that can take advantage of it.
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Originally posted by Veerappan View PostThat's assuming you've got a spare USB stick laying around. I've only got the one, and I haven't bothered to buy any extras. I still have a few spindles of blank CDs laying around, and it gives me the peace of mind to know that I've always got a bootable live-cd laying around just in case I need it.
I have also been using CD-RWs when possible to save the waste of a CD-R if I can.
One of these days I'll get around to acquiring another thumb drive, but for now I've still got plenty of spare CDs.
And with a usb drive all you need is one laying around because you can erase whats on it...
Its 2011, going over 700mb is acceptable. Perhaps they can have a minimal version as well that can fit on a cd, but even if they didn't I don't think it would be a big deal.
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Originally posted by Jonno View PostPerfectly, as all Qt applications are native Gtk+ applications (when run in a Gtk+ environment).
Qt4 GUI is not a GUI toolkit, but a GUI toolkit wrapper, not unlike gtkmm or Gtk# . Unlike gtkmm and Gtk# , however, it supports using many different toolkits as a backend, including Gtk+, win32, cacao and carbon. It also includes a simple themeable toolkit for situations when no other toolkit is available (such as for Qt/embedded). KDE provides some enhancements to the built in toolkit (such as improved file and print dialogues) as well as a quite good theme (Oxygen), so most KDE centric distros, including Kubuntu, configures that as the default. However, most distros, including Ubuntu, uses the Gtk+ backend by default when inside a GNOME session, so if you are a GNOME user and launches a qt application you should not notice any difference at all.
Note: Some of the KDE enhancements to Qt does not play well with the Gtk+ backend (or Win32 backend for that matter), so some KDE applications might misbehave slightly when run in GNOME, but will generally behave much better than GNOME applications running in KDE.
On a serious note, I thought wxWidgets was the wrapper to use to solve Linux GUI standards issues, but since Qt is more mature with more features AFAIK for it to be able to do that is awesome.
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Originally posted by locovaca View PostIt's going to be years before a USB drive saturates a USB2 bus, let alone are fast enough to justify USB3 or eSATA.
That being said, I've got no real argument against using USB for installing an OS, as long as the machine you're installing on supports booting from USB. I keep a few CD-RWs around for OS images that I know are only temporary, but installing from thumb drive would work as well, once I figured out how to actually create a bootable thumb drive.
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Originally posted by Veerappan View PostYou sure about that? USB 2.0 is 480Mbit/s, which translates roughly to 48 MB/s. My 3+ year old Sandisk Cruzer Micro 2GB pushes 30MB/s,
And in terms of OS Installation, a maxed out USB 2.0 , a 4GB Install size on USB would take 66 seconds to transfer, and im pretty sure USB 3 will be the norm my then
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