Just curious: Got a USB memory stick 4-pack at CostCo. Four Dane-Elec 512MB stick, great deal ($40). After plugging in the first one the laptop hard drive was crunching a lot (this laptop is used to USB sticks). Upon checking an empty stick it turns out that properties lists 514MB but only 490MB of that free.What kind of overhead is in those sticks? If it's really >20MB, why so much?-- Regards, Joerg

Maybe because 514/(1.024*1.024) = 490.2?

Because it clashes with the bling?Best regards, Spehro Pefhany-- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" Info for manufacturers: software/hardware/analog Info for designers:

Overhead on memory sticks?

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Spehro Pefhany 19 years ago

Because it clashes with the bling?

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

"it\'s the network..." "The Journey is the reward" speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com

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Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippi 19 years ago

I thought my girlfriend wanted soap on a rope - it turned out to be a breakdown in communication: she wanted bling on a string. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

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Gary Tait 19 years ago

Donald wrote in news:A_ednfnweL5htojbnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

That would be piracy, downlading it form the web.

Put XP on that machine, if possible, or Linux.

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