[01:13] <xcrileyx> Hello
[01:14] <xcrileyx> Is anyone here than can help a newb out?
[01:15] <xcrileyx> ?
[13:13] <xrileyx> good morning, is anyone here that could help out a new guy?
[13:14] <ogra> !ask
[13:15] <xrileyx> well i did last night
[13:15] <xrileyx> and on one responded
[13:15] <xrileyx> so i just wanted tos ee if anyone was in today
[13:16] <xrileyx> Im looking to build a carputer, and to save space i was going to run the UMPC from a usb flash
[13:16] <xrileyx> is the only option for doing that a "Live Session"
[13:18] <ogra> you cant do a normal install to the flash indeed
[13:18] <xrileyx> dang.. not even if i get one of those 16gb drives?
[13:19] <ogra> sorry, typo
[13:19] <ogra> s/cant/can/
[13:20] <xrileyx> oh.. so i CAN get ubuntu to install to a flash and recognize the flash as my main drive?
[13:20] <ogra> sury 
[13:20] <ogra> *sure
[13:20] <xrileyx> I know that the upsides to this are: less space required, less heat, and faster boots
[13:20] <xrileyx> what would be the downside?
[13:20] <ogra> ubuntu usually only cares for the UUID of the drive 
[13:21] <ogra> so you should be able to use any media that had a filesystem and is known by the kernel for your rootfs
[13:22] <xrileyx> fantastic!
[13:22] <xrileyx> thanks
[13:22] <ogra> no downside apart from the hardware induced ones
[13:23] <ogra> dont use a swap partition ;) it will wear out your flash
[13:23] <xrileyx> swap partition?
[13:23] <ogra> yes
[13:24] <xrileyx> oh, this is the equivilant of page size in windows?
[15:32] <derekS> hey guys. 2 questions: 1) is there any tutorial on encrypting the home directory? 2) are there any articles on optimizing for SSDs?