[ubuntu-uk] OT: Poundland

[David King]

Sounds like it is worthwhile. I get emails from online stores offering 
the same sort of deal, such 99 p or so for a 1 GB USB drive. But when I 
factor in the cost of delivery, it will be more like £7 for a 1 GB drive.

So I really must check out this Poundland offer. I tried looking for the 
Poundland website, but Google told me that poundland.com contained 
malicious code and would not let me directly visit it. Wikipedia listed 
the site as being at poundland.co.uk, which when I tried to access it, I 
got a warning saying it was a Reported Attack Site. But I visited the 
site anyway, with the NoScript actively blocking the scripts. I am 
guessing that someone has probably hacked the site and put code on there 
recently.
 
I looked around the website but could not find any sign of USB flash drives.


David King



Rob Beard wrote:
> Ken Robson wrote:
>   
>> And Poundland have Pqi 1Gb mini usb (they are fingernail sized) sticks 
>> for sale, these make an ideal emergency Linux to carry around.
>> Just confirmed that the Pqi boots fine with Knoppix on it and you have 
>> 380Mb free for your apps/data.
>>
>> I was going to use the usb stick for my car mp3 player, but I will get 
>> another for that.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>   
>>     
> Ahh I didn't see any of those in my local Poundland, presumably they'll 
> get em in eventually though.  Always handy to have a couple of USB 
> sticks.  In fact I could do with one for Ubuntu 8.04.2, one for Ubuntu 
> 8.10 and one for System Rescue CD (at the moment I have a couple of USB 
> sticks but I need needing them for other things and keep wiping them and 
> putting other stuff on em).
>
> Rob
>
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