Day: February 8, 2008

It isn’t just USB 1’s fault, it’s this stupid thumb drive

I don’t know what it is about this 2GB thumb drive, but it’s incredibly slow in USB 1 mode, but not too bad in USB 2 mode. I tried copying this 600+Mb ISO to it from my Linux box with it formatted at ext3, ext2 and FAT32, and the fastest time was over 35 minutes. The same file to a 1Gb thumb drive in the same USB slot was only 11 minutes.

On my Powerbook, USB 2.0, that same file copied to the thumb drive in 2:43. Copying it to the 1Gb thumb drive took 2:04. So it’s only on USB 1 that the other one is dog slow.

What’s wrong with UPS these days?

I’m used to UPS being incompetent fuckwads. So I’m a little surprised to find that of the three things I’ve ordered on-line recently, two of them came within 2 days of me placing the order even though they were sent “UPS We’ll Get To It When We Fucking Feel Like It” mode. I can only assume that they have a bunch of left over capacity from Christmas that they are waiting for the most inconvenient time to lay off or something.