Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 284, Issue 2

2009-05-30 Thread Walter Reed
-- Message: 3 Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 14:59:24 +0100 From: Simon P Smith Linux can read and write NTFS these days, can it not? Well, it can, I've done it. :) Has anyone here had any good or bad experiences with NTFS on a recent Linux system? I haven't used it e

Re: [Dorset] Formating HD's and updating Ubuntu

2009-05-30 Thread C A Wills
Peter (and all other replies) Thanks for the info. I'm now going to copy my /home partition to the new HD. Then upgrade to 8.10 via synaptics, once that is done I'll possibly loose the wireless as I could not get it to work off the 'live' DVD. (The 9.04 Live DVD worked great, even wireless

Re: [Dorset] Formating HD's and updating Ubuntu

2009-05-30 Thread Simon P Smith
Peter Merchant wrote: >> Peter, can I suggest IFS for reading Linux (ext2/ext3) >> partitions as windows drives? >> >> http://www.fs-driver.org/ >> >> > Thanks, But the question is --- Do I want to? > > Understood ;-) The issue for me was that I needed to! Simon -- Next meeting: Bournem

Re: [Dorset] Formating HD's and updating Ubuntu

2009-05-30 Thread Peter Merchant
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 11:09 +0100, Simon P Smith wrote: > Peter Merchant wrote: > > Only in Linux- XP cannot read > > the 'linux' partitions. > > > Peter, can I suggest IFS for reading Linux (ext2/ext3) > partitions as windows drives? > > http://www.fs-driver.org/ > Thanks, But the question

Re: [Dorset] Formating HD's and updating Ubuntu

2009-05-30 Thread Simon P Smith
Peter Merchant wrote: > Only in Linux- XP cannot read > the 'linux' partitions. > Peter, can I suggest IFS for reading Linux (ext2/ext3) partitions as windows drives? http://www.fs-driver.org/ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, 2009-06-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://

Re: [Dorset] Google Wave

2009-05-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 29 May 2009, Terry Coles wrote: > The good news is that most of the code is going to be Open Sourced and the > protocols are open too. Google have already been collaborating with two > other organisations who have produced their own clients for this. They say > that they gained so much

Re: [Dorset] Formating HD's and updating Ubuntu

2009-05-30 Thread Peter Merchant
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 17:12 +0100, Simon P Smith wrote: > Roundcube seemed to have killed my previous ;-( > > C A Wills wrote: > > Question 1: Is it better to format the full 250Gb as 1 partition FAT32 > > on my Linux machine or on my wife's XP? > > Somewhere I think I read that Linux is better