2006-08-10 00:40:32 · 6 answers · asked by alvin_tan_yi_rong 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
It is a small bit of Flash RAM that can interface with the USB port.
We bought two packages of 4 drives, 256Mb thumb drives, at Costco for $48! For our Special Needs school so everyone can bring their homework to and from the home computer.
At the school we installed 48 Linux Computers, all networked, over the space of 30 hours using ten volunteer Geeks.
All the equipment, the Compaq 1.5 Ghz computers, the fantastic monitors, the keyboards, mice, the cables, the hubs, the $100,000 DL380 Server (when new, 4 years ago!), were donated, and transported to us, by Disney World.
If you are a 501(C)3 non-profit charity, you could qualify, but, you need to compete with about 300 OTHER charities, each time there is a surplus! We requested and competed over 8 months and about 8 'drawings'.
Our Linux User Groups' next project is a disabled home/hospital, for children who are terminally ill, or critically disabled. They can be part of a contributing brain trust in our society!
GNU/Linux has great interfaces in speech, listening for instructions, reading out of email... so much more, that helps the disabled! http://pclinuxos.com has 5,000 applications, all FREE!
And, being a Unix clone, Linux is very stable, very secure, virusproof, and, upto 50X faster than Microsoft! So good, that Microsoft.com, hotmail.com, and MSN.com all run on 15,000 Linux computers, EACH!
2006-08-10 01:05:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A thumb drive is when you drive with a thumb and falsh drive is when you falsh while you drive....ha
On a serious note it is a device which looks like a small pen and can store a few MB/GB of data connects to an USB port. Sometimes called a pen drive...
2006-08-10 00:47:10 · answer #2 · answered by Indian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think of it as the evolved form of floppy disks.
They plug into the USB slots which all computers nowadays have, and they are plug-and-play devices (requiring no drivers to be installed first).
Best of all, they use flash memory (like SD/CF cards) and are useful for transporting large files (128mb-2gb) in a portable device.
2006-08-10 01:35:46 · answer #3 · answered by Alvin X 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a tiny USB port device that hold data like a disk drive, I boght one for about $24 and it just "plugs in" and is an external A drive.
2006-08-10 00:46:36 · answer #4 · answered by ldysportsbuff 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
device use for data storage. if u r using winxp u don't have to install any driver (just plug-and-play).
2006-08-18 00:22:56 · answer #5 · answered by raju 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know 2 points
2006-08-17 18:15:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋