Flashdance
Posted by Michael.
With all of the fuss about Vista and Windows 7 – and there’s no denying that MSFT could have done a better job over the past few years – there are a couple features that are actually pretty cool.
Of particular note is something called readyboost, which allows you to use a USB flash drive as an instant RAM boost. The thumbdrive serves as an additional memory cache that can be accessed much more quickly than data on a hard drive. I don’t know how much of a long-term solution this is, but it’s pretty slick, given that it would take me a LONG long time to do the same thing with a linux box.
Speaking of flash drives, and this is specifically for Ryan Johnson, it’s time to eat your corn flakes:
a hi-tech band embedded with a 1 Gigabyte USB flash drive pre-loaded with exclusive Star Trek content
… you just need 8 UPC codes from specially marked Kellog cereal boxes.
May 23rd, 2009 at 2:32 pm Using
Well holy crap, I guess I better start eating. Good thing I have a pregnant wife at home who’s been craving cereal!
June 9th, 2009 at 10:13 am Using
I guess I need to not only be posting, but also commenting.
Using flash memory as swap is actually a really good idea as long as it’s fast because the access time is so low. It’s easy under linux too.
1. use fsck to partition the drive.
2. run mkswap to make the flash memory into swap
3. modify your fstab
Tadahhh!