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Author: John StumblesJohn Stumbles Date: Jan 8, 2008 22:56
On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:42:37 +0100, David in Normandy wrote:
When I passed my shuttle on to my son he installed XP on it. I'd
installed Ubuntu and two versions of Debian on it before and it had Just
Worked (TM). He spent ages hunting around for drivers for this & that
under XP. (The only reason he wants XP is to run itunes.)
--
John Stumbles
I can't stand intolerance
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Author: Colin WilsonColin Wilson Date: Jan 9, 2008 00:02
> (The only reason he wants XP is to run itunes.)
Does he need the itunes store, or just the functionality to transfer
to the ipod ?
You could always point him towards Amarok :-}
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Author: Andy ChampAndy Champ Date: Jan 9, 2008 00:08
Steve Firth wrote:
>
> You don't understand Unix? How bizarre.
No Steve, I don't. I can use some flavours of it - but not very well.
This is true of half a dozen (1) other operating systems I've used. The
only one I truly understood was the one I wrote myself, and that didn't
do much. I understand Windows better because I've used it
professionally for many years, and that is because I write software for
a living and the biggest market for software is on Windows.
Andy
(1) Let's see... George III, VME/K, VME/B, OS/360, whatever it was on
that odd Burroughs jobby, CP/M (inc CP/M86, MP/M, CDOS),
MS-DOS-come-PC-DOS, Win 3.1, Win NT (totally different BTW), Solaris,
Ubuntu... I lose count.
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Date: Jan 9, 2008 01:03
Andy Champ nospam.com> wrote:
> the biggest market for software is on Windows.
That rather depends on the approach one takes. The biggest market for
the software I wrote was Macintosh users. Sheeple may think they know
better or be proud of mastering a barbaric and poorly implemented OS,
but they're wrong.
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Author: The Medway HandymanThe Medway Handyman Date: Jan 9, 2008 01:24
John Stumbles wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:20:37 -0800, Man at B&Q wrote:
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>> But what about sharing files from the same location on disc on a dual
>> boot machine?
>
> Linux can read and write to all types of FAT, and read NTFS partitions
> (I'm not sure what the current status is on writing to NTFS). There
> are also some programs and drivers for accessing Linux's ext2/3
> filesystems from NT family Windows (NT, XP, Vista)
Help Rob! Call the TLA police!
I thought LAS was bad enough!
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Author: Andy HallAndy Hall Date: Jan 9, 2008 06:40
On 2008-01-08 21:28:26 +0000, John Stumbles ntlworld.com> said:
> On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:20:37 -0800, Man at B&Q wrote:
>
>> But what about sharing files from the same location on disc on a dual
>> boot machine?
>
> Linux can read and write to all types of FAT, and read NTFS partitions
> (I'm not sure what the current status is on writing to NTFS). There are
> also some programs and drivers for accessing Linux's ext2/3 filesystems
> from NT family Windows (NT, XP, Vista)
You can get NTFS drivers from Paragon which work well. They do OS X
ones as well and both are RW.
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Date: Jan 9, 2008 09:34
In message text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, The
Medway Handyman nospamblueyonder.co.uk> writes>John Stumbles wrote:
>> On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:20:37 -0800, Man at B&Q wrote:
>>
>>> But what about sharing files from the same location on disc on a dual
>>> boot machine?
>>
>> Linux can read and write to all types of FAT, and read NTFS partitions
>> (I'm not sure what the current status is on writing to NTFS). There
>> are also some programs and drivers for accessing Linux's ext2/3
>> filesystems from NT family Windows (NT, XP, Vista)
>
>Help Rob! Call the TLA police!
>
>I thought LAS was bad enough!
>
You mean you don't understand FAT? That was the only TLA. :)
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Author: PCPaulPCPaul Date: Jan 9, 2008 20:33
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:40:43 +0000, Andy Hall wrote:
> On 2008-01-08 21:28:26 +0000, John Stumbles ntlworld.com>
> said:
> >> On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:20:37 -0800, Man at B&Q wrote:
>>
>>> But what about sharing files from the same location on disc on a dual
>>> boot machine?
>>
>> Linux can read and write to all types of FAT, and read NTFS partitions
>> (I'm not sure what the current status is on writing to NTFS). There are
>> also some programs and drivers for accessing Linux's ext2/3 filesystems
>> from NT family Windows (NT, XP, Vista)
>
> You can get NTFS drivers from Paragon which work well. They do OS X
> ones as well and both are RW.
The NTFS-3G project has matured quite recently (this year) and is now
being included in quite a few distributions as a read/write NTFS driver.
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Author: John StumblesJohn Stumbles Date: Jan 10, 2008 11:50
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:02:28 +0000, Colin Wilson wrote:
>> (The only reason he wants XP is to run itunes.)
>
> Does he need the itunes store, or just the functionality to transfer
> to the ipod ?
>
> You could always point him towards Amarok :-}
Just transfer to/from the iPod. It's a nano. We tried gtkpod(? )
which seemed to have been written by whoever designed the Solaris
installer :-(. Does amarok work with nanos?
--
John Stumbles
Time flies like an arrow
Fruit flies like a banana
Tits like coconuts
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