Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux screenphone MeeGo

2011-05-18 Thread Woogie
I've been keeping an eye on MeeGo for a while now. Today, the only consumer device you can buy that will run Meego is the Nokia N900 (I'm using one right now). However, the N900 comes OOTB with Maemo 5, not Meego. There is a set of community-supported images to put MeeGo on the N900, but the images

[OCLUG-Tech] Linux screenphone MeeGo

2011-05-18 Thread allan . fields
I was wondering if anyone on this list has tried a mobile device with MeeGo. Any screen phones or tablets that can be recommended? I would like to here how this effort has gone, because it is another consortium for development of Linux mobile. I originally read of MeeGo in Linux Journal and h

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Seeing ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions from 'doze ...

2011-05-18 Thread Prof. John C Nash
I've used Ext2IFS in the past. http://www.fs-driver.org/ Pro -- it really does work Con -- it really does work, giving access to Linux files ignoring permissions and owners! I eventually took it off my machines at uOttawa as I wanted to keep the security on my Linux systems that had dual boot i.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Seeing ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions from 'doze ...

2011-05-18 Thread Mike Kenzie
On Wednesday 18 May 2011 12:18:23 pulmud muppe wrote: > As with many, at work I have to use 'doze. > > (... though I do have a dual boot second machine (linux/xp) which I > can often run with linux ...) > > I have occasionally tried to locate an add-on (or whatever one calls > such in the m$ real

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux Digest, Vol 77, Issue 21

2011-05-18 Thread Eric Brackenbury
Are you using Oracle VM If so I am interested to hear your experience Eric B On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:00 PM, wrote: > Send Linux mailing list submissions to >        linux@lists.oclug.on.ca > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >        http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/list

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Seeing ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions from 'doze ...

2011-05-18 Thread Paul Hays
If the various windows ext drivers don't cut it, how about a minimal Linux in a vbox virtual machine exporting filesystems via samba? You'd need to register a virtual disk using "VboxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk" for each filesystem to be exported. (I haven't tried this. Access permiss

[OCLUG-Tech] Seeing ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions from 'doze ...

2011-05-18 Thread pulmud muppe
As with many, at work I have to use 'doze. (... though I do have a dual boot second machine (linux/xp) which I can often run with linux ...) I have occasionally tried to locate an add-on (or whatever one calls such in the m$ realm) which allows 'doze to see ext3/ext4 linux partitions/filesystems.