Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th May 2008 17:54 UTC
Ivan Krstic' critique of the One Laptop Per Child Project has made its ripples around the pond of the intertubes. Apart from the obvious part where it criticises a major project from an insider's point of view, it also had a few other remarks that caught people's attention - most notably the admission that despite his ability to do Linux kernel hacking, his main development laptop is a Macintosh running Mac OS X.
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2006-02-15
You have 500KB/s external driver speed when you use USB1 (full-speed), not USB2 (high-speed). There can be many reasons for this, including well-known Apple USB driver bugs, and all are completely file system independent.
Yeah, I know the difference between USB1 and 2. Do note however that before installation of Macfuse and ntfs-3g I could read from that external disk at normal speeds. Only after installing those did the speed drop. High speed read-only access ain't much better than slow read-write, unfortunately.
The Linux USB drivers are indeed much more mature but sometimes they also have problems like randomly dropping power thus losing data, causing corruptions.
Never heard of such :O Atleast that has never happened to me on any of my USB devices. In my experience Linux USB has been a lot more stable than f.ex. under Windows where I have several times had the whole computer become unresponsive. But well, maybe I've just been lucky then