10.04 and USB 3.0

2011-04-25 Thread David
Hi folks and thanks for the responses to my earlier questions about PDFs. Now that I assume updates will soon no longer be given for 8.04, I am planning to install 10.04 LTS, and to get a card installed in my existing computer so that it's USB 3.0 compatible, and to get a USB 3.0 external HDD.

Re: 10.04 and USB 3.0

2011-04-25 Thread Benjamin Donald-Wilson
Yes from what I know from it should work. What format are you using for your drive? === Benjamin Donald-Wilson (Age 12) == On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 19:20, David ag...@justemail.net wrote: Hi folks and thanks for the responses to my

Re: 10.04 and USB 3.0

2011-04-25 Thread IKT
It should, support for USB 3.0 was included in linux kernel 2.6.31, 10.04 ships with 2.6.32. On a different discussion I'm loosely watching the new SSD drives that use SATA connections, some of them are blazingly fast.

Re: WiFi broadband access security?

2011-04-25 Thread Paul Gear
On 24/04/11 22:02, Chris Robinson wrote: ... I have just ordered Kogan's Agora 12 laptop preloaded as it will be with 11.04. It will be going on holiday with me to USA in August. If you don't want the US TSA getting their grubby mitts on your laptop, you will need to have it encrypted and

Re: WiFi broadband access security?

2011-04-25 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 20:53 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: On 24/04/11 22:02, Chris Robinson wrote: ... I have just ordered Kogan's Agora 12 laptop preloaded as it will be with 11.04. It will be going on holiday with me to USA in August. If you don't want the US TSA getting their grubby

Re: 10.04 and USB 3.0

2011-04-25 Thread David
Hi Benjamin (and thanks IKT), I don't know much about drive formats (apart from seeing the names FAT32 NTSC). I want to be able to use the drive for external storage / backup, and would want it to be able to work with Ubuntu and with Win 7. I would probably be interested in either a 'Seagate

Re: 10.04 and USB 3.0

2011-04-25 Thread Benjamin Donald-Wilson
Hi Dave, I would use the exFAT format because by the sounds of it your using it on Win 7 and Ubuntu 10.04. The exFAT format supports Win 7 and with the ppa:relan/exfat ppa in Ubuntu you can read write to a exFAT format. Just to let you know you need to format the drive in Win 7 for exFAT as the

Re: 10.04 and USB 3.0

2011-04-25 Thread Chris Robinson
- Original Message From: Benjamin Donald-Wilson benjamin.donald.wilso...@gmail.com To: ag...@justemail.net Cc: Ubuntu ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Tue, 26 April, 2011 9:59:51 AM Subject: Re: 10.04 and USB 3.0 Hi Dave, I would use the exFAT format because by the sounds of it your