[haiku] Re: Haiku Logo'd USB flash drives
- From: scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:43:49 -0800
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Daniel Devine <devine-mlist@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think these drives would be excellent to peddle at conferences. I would
> pay $20 (USD, $25 AUD) even though I know I could get the USB drive myself
> for $10.
> I think a $10 donation per drive would be worth the effort. I would guess
> that you could move at least 10 of them per conference. It only takes a few
> minutes to dd the image so setting them up should be easy - write a simple
> bash script so that you can do four or so simultaneously (while being sure
> that you don't accidentally image your own /dev/sda).
>
> I have seen businesses get their own sticks printed so I assume there a fair
> few places that do printing on USB sticks... there must be a bargain
> somewhere.
> I was however recently told about el-cheapo USB sticks that were given (as
> part of the schwag) out at OSDC in Sydney(?) and there was problems where
> the stick reported that it was 4GB, but there was only actually 3.5GB or so
> memory so data would go into address space that didn't really exist.
>
> --Daniel Devine
>
Which reminds me I need to get a couple of these on order so we can
verify they work on Haiku before we can move forward on it.
-scottmc
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