Data Doctors Radio Program
Fun with Flash Memory
What good is creating something without an adequate way to store and share it? With the explosion of consumer products requiring digital storage and our desire to take our data with us, comes a storage technology called flash. Simple, sturdy, and stalwart, flash memory makes sharing and toting your files easier than ever and they’re being integrated into all sorts of products we use. So, what can flash do for you and is it time for you to ditch that floppy drive?
How can flash make your life better and how might you be using it already? Tune in this week and Ken and Chad discuss the flash phenomenon.
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Original Air Date: Jan 28, 2006
This Week's Links
- Can I backup to a thumb drive?
- Flash memory to rival hard drives?
- How flash memory works
- Flash MP3 player reviews
- Six tips for buying a flash-based MP3 player
- Tougher thumb drives get more features
- Credit card USB flash drive
- Biometric data security in a thumb drive
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Off the Trolley: Describes the behavior of a program that malfunctions and goes catatonic, but doesn’t actually crash or abort. The term is much older than computing and is slang elsewhere. A trolley is the small wheel that trolls, or runs against, the heavy wire that carries the current to run a streetcar. It's at the end of the long pole (the trolley pole) that reaches from the roof of the streetcar to the overhead line. When the trolley stops making contact with the wire (from passing through a switch, going over bumpy track, or whatever), the streetcar comes to a halt, (usually) without crashing. The streetcar is then said to be off the trolley, or off the wire.
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