Re: [PLUG] USB portable drive

2010-03-05 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:50 PM, VY wrote: > Hi > > I have a 400 GB USB portable drive that I need to do READ/WRITE between > Linux, Win XP and MacOS X. > It is currently in FAT which has a 4GB file size limit.  Is NTFS the right > format to go?  I > seem to recall Linux can do full read/write to N

Re: [PLUG] USB portable drive

2010-03-05 Thread drew wymore
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:40 PM, VY wrote: > thanks for all responsesIt looks like NTFS is not supported in MacOS X. > Will try Linux this weekend. > > Ok, sticking with FAT and file size under 4GB for now > > > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:13 PM, m0gely wrote: > >> VY wrote: >> > Hi >> > >>

Re: [PLUG] USB portable drive

2010-03-05 Thread Erik Lane
At least Windows and Linux will very reliably read/write to ext2/3 file systems. I've never tried with OSX, but in looking on the internet, it looks like it might be able to handle it as well. There's a system driver that you can download to support ext2/3 under windows. That's the way I go if I

Re: [PLUG] USB portable drive

2010-03-05 Thread VY
thanks for all responsesIt looks like NTFS is not supported in MacOS X. Will try Linux this weekend. Ok, sticking with FAT and file size under 4GB for now On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:13 PM, m0gely wrote: > VY wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a 400 GB USB portable drive that I need to do READ

Re: [PLUG] USB portable drive

2010-03-05 Thread m0gely
VY wrote: > Hi > > I have a 400 GB USB portable drive that I need to do READ/WRITE between > Linux, Win XP and MacOS X. > It is currently in FAT which has a 4GB file size limit. Is NTFS the right > format to go? I > seem to recall Linux can do full read/write to NTFS. Just want to see if > anyon

Re: [PLUG] USB portable drive

2010-03-05 Thread Larry Brigman
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:50 PM, VY wrote: > Hi > > I have a 400 GB USB portable drive that I need to do READ/WRITE between > Linux, Win XP and MacOS X. > It is currently in FAT which has a 4GB file size limit.  Is NTFS the right > format to go?  I > seem to recall Linux can do full read/write to N

Re: [PLUG] USB portable drive

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Mullen
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 03:50:09PM -0800, VY wrote: > I have a 400 GB USB portable drive that I need to do READ/WRITE > between Linux, Win XP and MacOS X. It is currently in FAT which has > a 4GB file size limit. Is NTFS the right format to go? I haven't looked into it in several years, but I re

Re: [PLUG] phpbb question

2010-03-05 Thread randy . rowlette
Thank you Dale. So far after adding the extra registration questions, I haven't had any issues. I do currently moderate all postings and adding a new group may also work after I start building the community. Thank you all for your help, it is very much appreciated. Randy On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1

[PLUG] USB portable drive

2010-03-05 Thread VY
Hi I have a 400 GB USB portable drive that I need to do READ/WRITE between Linux, Win XP and MacOS X. It is currently in FAT which has a 4GB file size limit. Is NTFS the right format to go? I seem to recall Linux can do full read/write to NTFS. Just want to see if anyone else has similar experi

[PLUG] video from Jeri Ellison last night

2010-03-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
The video I recorded from the Jeri Ellison presentation last night (which was excellent, by the way) is available from: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5194965 It's in a flash player... I'm figuring out how to download it so I can convert it to a more linux-friendly format. -- Randal L. Schwa

Re: [PLUG] phpbb question

2010-03-05 Thread Dale Snell
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 20:03:22 -0800, randy.rowle...@gmail.com wrote: > > Anyone have any ideas on how to help alleviate the spamming problem > of a forum board? > Randy, One thing we did on one board I've been on was to make all legitimate, non-spammer users part of a custom group, Full Members

Re: [PLUG] phpbb question

2010-03-05 Thread randy . rowlette
I have it set to moderator approved now. I am still spreading the word throughout the community in which I live so it is a new startup and haven't had any legit takers yet. I have just been getting tired of the 20 to 30 inactive user accts that do not activate due to bad email accts. I think the ad

Re: [PLUG] phpbb question

2010-03-05 Thread m0gely
randy.rowle...@gmail.com wrote: > I may not be asking this question on the list, but here goes. I am new to > administrating a phpbb forum on my site. I have been getting tons of > spammers and am trying to figure out how to possibly eliminate the problem. > I am running phpbb3 on Ubuntu 9.10 Serve