Comments on: My New Stick http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/03/26/my-new-stick/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:16:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Terminally Incoherent » Blog Archive » The Importance of Backing Your Shit Up http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/03/26/my-new-stick/#comment-3712 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:36:57 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/03/26/my-new-stick/#comment-3712 [...] Get a Memory Stick - these things are cheep as dirt now. Get one, wear it around your neck, put it in your pocket/purse, or just leave it connected to your desktop. Then at the end of the day, copy all the files you worked on to it. [...] […] Get a Memory Stick - these things are cheep as dirt now. Get one, wear it around your neck, put it in your pocket/purse, or just leave it connected to your desktop. Then at the end of the day, copy all the files you worked on to it. […]

]]> by: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/03/26/my-new-stick/#comment-3541 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:20:56 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/03/26/my-new-stick/#comment-3541 The 256 MB stick cost me $25 back when I bought it, and at the time I was thinking I was getting an awesome deal. :P [quote post="1494"]Looks like they’re using some proxy [/quote] Yep, you totally have the US flag next to your name. I'm guessing they have some point-to-point VPN setup or something like that. I heard this is how American geeks on business trips in China bypass the "Great Firewall" - they just VPN to their office in US and use that as their gateway. :P The 256 MB stick cost me $25 back when I bought it, and at the time I was thinking I was getting an awesome deal. P

Looks like they’re using some proxy

Yep, you totally have the US flag next to your name. I’m guessing they have some point-to-point VPN setup or something like that.

I heard this is how American geeks on business trips in China bypass the “Great Firewall” - they just VPN to their office in US and use that as their gateway. P

]]> by: Wikke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/03/26/my-new-stick/#comment-3530 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:45:48 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/03/26/my-new-stick/#comment-3530 LOL, I posted previous text in Brussels, Belgium; but at the Adobe office :P (Training course) Looks like they're using some proxy :) LOL, I posted previous text in Brussels, Belgium; but at the Adobe office P (Training course)
Looks like they’re using some proxy )

]]> by: Wikke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/03/26/my-new-stick/#comment-3529 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:43:33 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/03/26/my-new-stick/#comment-3529 I still have a 256MB stick which costed 95€ or something :( ... This was in the beginning of 2004 somewhere. But it was better than the 20Mb diskspace my school offered to the IT students :/ I still have a 256MB stick which costed 95€ or something ( …
This was in the beginning of 2004 somewhere.

But it was better than the 20Mb diskspace my school offered to the IT students :/

]]> by: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/03/26/my-new-stick/#comment-3525 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:20:21 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/03/26/my-new-stick/#comment-3525 Yeah, it's amazing how much cheaper these things got recently. Of course there is still plenty of overpriced crap out there too. I bet there are still people buying 1GB sticks for $59 right now. :| Yeah, it’s amazing how much cheaper these things got recently. Of course there is still plenty of overpriced crap out there too. I bet there are still people buying 1GB sticks for $59 right now. |

]]> by: k.mandla http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/03/26/my-new-stick/#comment-3524 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:50:46 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/03/26/my-new-stick/#comment-3524 I feel embarrassed that I bought a 1Gb stick for $59 in November 2005 ... and thinking I was getting such a deal. And I still haven't gotten rid of all the 32Mb sticks I have lying around the den. I'll be giving them to the dog to play with next. :( I feel embarrassed that I bought a 1Gb stick for $59 in November 2005 … and thinking I was getting such a deal. And I still haven’t gotten rid of all the 32Mb sticks I have lying around the den. I’ll be giving them to the dog to play with next. (

]]> by: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/03/26/my-new-stick/#comment-3516 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:55:35 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/03/26/my-new-stick/#comment-3516 Funny thing is that I noticed that I don't use these as much as before. Nowadays I tend do ssh stuff from one machine to another rather than moving it on a stick. :P Funny thing is that I noticed that I don’t use these as much as before. Nowadays I tend do ssh stuff from one machine to another rather than moving it on a stick. P

]]> by: Fr3d http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/03/26/my-new-stick/#comment-3515 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:43:04 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/03/26/my-new-stick/#comment-3515 Oooh nice :D I just bought myself a new 1GB U3 drive, but I might have to get one of those too - you can never have enough storage (or pen stick drive things) :) Oooh nice D

I just bought myself a new 1GB U3 drive, but I might have to get one of those too - you can never have enough storage (or pen stick drive things) )

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