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    Much Better Than Sausage: How a USB Stick Is Made

    An Extensive, Obsessive Performance Test Of... USB Keys?

    Dealzmodo Hack: Make Your Old USB Stick Into a Digital Multitool
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    Image of brianhatch brianhatch
    08/23/09

    In reply to Much Better Than Sausage: How a USB Stick Is Made
    for some reason, this video reminds me of bjork explaining how a tv works.
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    08/23/09

    @brianhatch:
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    08/23/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HasADDWRTRouter:
    /Franken mutters under his breath: Come onnnn...put your finger under the magic suction cup on the top of the tube. Come onnnn...
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    08/23/09

    @FrankenPC:
    I think she already did that, just look at her hair!
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    08/23/09

    @Crim Law Geek: Hair nothing, look at her!
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    08/24/09

    @Barry99705:
    Yeah, this is a prime example of why it's a bad idea to take drugs/be insane right before appearing on TV
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    Image of KTK1990 KTK1990
    08/23/09

    In reply to Much Better Than Sausage: How a USB Stick Is Made
    Very nice video. *bookmarks it and emails a link to a few people*
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    Image of (Starman) Starman (Starman) Starman
    08/23/09

    In reply to Much Better Than Sausage: How a USB Stick Is Made
    But how is a FireWire stick made? :O
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    Image of bill cant fart bill cant fart
    08/23/09

    @(Starman) AnalysisDialysis: With fire?
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    Image of The Donut Pirate The Donut Pirate
    08/23/09

    @bill cant fart: And wire?
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    08/23/09

    @The Donut Pirate: And Steel. In the end, there can be only one!
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    08/24/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HasADDWRTRouter:
    That's some masterful commenting work right there my friends.
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    08/23/09

    In reply to Much Better Than Sausage: How a USB Stick Is Made
    While it may be more appealing, I doubt you can get rid of Richie Aprile's body in a USB stick factory.
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    Image of corradokid corradokid
    12/23/08

    In reply to An Extensive, Obsessive Performance Test Of... USB Keys?
    Thank Jebus.... at work, we rely on USB thumb drives, and transfer a lot of data to/from. It gets annoying when you're waiting 10min for files to copy so we're always looking for faster ones. Perfect!
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    12/23/08

    @corradokid: Yup, when you use these things as homes/mobile homes for virtual machines, transfer speeds are waaaay more important than capacity/price. And it is a pretty good bet that the stick you buy won't match the performance numbers the manufacturer provides (either higher or lower).


    So these tests will benefit MANY professionals in both expected and unexpected ways...

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/23/08

    In reply to An Extensive, Obsessive Performance Test Of... USB Keys?
    I'm not seeing any sushi. Which means they didn't test enough stick drives.
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    12/23/08

    In reply to An Extensive, Obsessive Performance Test Of... USB Keys?
    No Sony ?
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    12/23/08

    @It s off the Hizzle fo $hizzle My Dizzle: There's one Sony Microvault 4 GB at last place.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    12/23/08

    In reply to An Extensive, Obsessive Performance Test Of... USB Keys?
    There is a thin line between thorough and obsessive.
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    Image of canned-air canned-air
    12/23/08

    @Curves: ...and it is about the same thickness as a crazy pill ;)
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    12/23/08

    @canned-air: Someone else's obsessiveness makes me a better informed consumer...
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    Image of Glare Glare
    12/06/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hack: Make Your Old USB Stick Into a Digital Multitool
    How do I do the emulators thing?


    I mean do I just download them onto the thumb drive? Then what? Let's say I have a ROM.. how do I play it?


    Oh I'm so confoozed!

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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    12/07/08

    @Glare: The emulator is the 'Shell Program'; Install it on the pendrive, add a folder with your ROMS in it, start emulator program, point it to the ROM folder.
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    Image of jaySoni jaySoni
    12/06/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hack: Make Your Old USB Stick Into a Digital Multitool
    Is there a way to combine the capacities of all USBs making it work like a single drive?
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    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    12/06/08

    @jaySoni: I looked into that actually, and as far as I know there really isn't a good way to do it, at least with RAID or anything like it.
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    Image of slaughter33 slaughter33
    12/05/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hack: Make Your Old USB Stick Into a Digital Multitool
    Lifehacker recommended Puppy Linux, not Unetbootin.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    12/06/08

    @slaughter33: unetbootin is the program to make the pen drive bootable, and installs your choice of ISOs on as well.
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    Image of jarhead jarhead
    12/05/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hack: Make Your Old USB Stick Into a Digital Multitool
    There's also XAMPP that runs great on a stick.
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    Image of engstewart engstewart
    12/05/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hack: Make Your Old USB Stick Into a Digital Multitool
    I don't know the tech term for this, but in Vista you can also plug in a USB drive to serve as a secondary RAM source (Speed Boost or something similar...).


    (Too lazy to look it up- use Google)

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    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    12/05/08

    @engstewart: Yep, it's called Readyboost. It's not very helpful, especially with older sticks.
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    Image of jarhead jarhead
    12/05/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hack: Make Your Old USB Stick Into a Digital Multitool
    How about webserver on a stick? I use a couple of the old ones and run separate websites on each one so I can just plug it in, work on the layout of my Wordpress theme, plugins, etc. When finished, I can unplug it, plug in another one and have a totally different site running on it. I currently have two... one running Wordpress and one running Drupal.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    12/05/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hack: Make Your Old USB Stick Into a Digital Multitool
    * Install keyloggers and 'drop' them at work, school, etc.


    * As above; but add pr0n, and drop at a church.

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