Re: ext? as fat or ntfs?

2009-07-18 Thread der.hans
Am 18. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Lisa Kachold so: Not sure what you are trying to do, but pendrive installations use Fat32 which is supported under both Linux and Windows. Well, FAT partitions suck, they're patent encumbered and according to m$ they're not allowed to work under Linux unless we pay e

Re: ext? as fat or ntfs?

2009-07-18 Thread der.hans
Am 18. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Ryan Rix so: On Sat 18 July 2009 12:05:51 am der.hans wrote: Am 17. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Ryan Rix so: If you don't have admin rights, there's no way. Outside of that, you could, mayhaps, use ext2IFS, with a lot of hacking. Can ext2ifs be run with autorun or single c

Re: flash

2009-07-18 Thread Lisa Kachold
http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forum/Setup-Problems/9429/Flash-doesn-t-load-in-Opera-Firefox and http://www.smorgasbord.net/how-to-install-firefox-flash-plugin-in-ubuntu-linux/ On 7/17/09, Joe wrote: > This is how I replaced the 32-bit flash with 64-bit flash. Might help > you out. > > ht

Re: ext? as fat or ntfs?

2009-07-18 Thread Lisa Kachold
Not sure what you are trying to do, but pendrive installations use Fat32 which is supported under both Linux and Windows. I.E. If I plug in my Knoppix 6.0 (or Ubuntu 9.04 persistent) pendrive into a Vista system, I see files. http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html Using a larger casp

Re: PLUG Security TEST Team: Elance Alert

2009-07-18 Thread Lisa Kachold
They probably just traded pr0n on IRC too; never looking at a record. Laugh! On 7/18/09, David Munson wrote: > Nobody seems to know yet how many records were compromised, judging from > what I can find online. > > At least it's not like the UC San Diego Cancer Center breach... 30,000 > people no

Re: 1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

2009-07-18 Thread Alan Dayley
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Marco Savo wrote: > I don't understand what's the point, you can read for free on-line > http://www.george-orwell.org/1984 > This copyright stuff is too messy for me to understand > > All animals are equal, But some animals are more equal than others. > Animal Farm,

Re: 1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

2009-07-18 Thread Marco Savo
I don't understand what's the point, you can read for free on-line http://www.george-orwell.org/1984 This copyright stuff is too messy for me to understand All animals are equal, But some animals are more equal than others. Animal Farm, the three pigs "Lenin, Stalin, Trotzky" On Sat, Jul 18, 2009

Re: 1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

2009-07-18 Thread Alan Dayley
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Ted Gould wrote: > > Honestly, I think that it's okay for people to do what they wish with > their content as long as they're upfront about it.  And, I think that > Amazon has been with this device.  I bought a Kindle (which I like) and > on doing that I realized l

Re: ext? as fat or ntfs?

2009-07-18 Thread Ryan Rix
On Sat 18 July 2009 12:05:51 am der.hans wrote: > Am 17. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Ryan Rix so: > > If you don't have admin rights, there's no way. > > Outside of that, you could, mayhaps, use ext2IFS, with a lot of hacking. > > Can ext2ifs be run with autorun or single click type of thing? It requires >

Re: 1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

2009-07-18 Thread Ted Gould
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 23:00 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Bob Elzer wrote: > > Apparently if you bought the George Orwell book 1984 on amazon for your > > kindle, you actually became part of the story today. > > > Here's the link > > http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/20

Re: PLUG Security TEST Team: Elance Alert

2009-07-18 Thread David Munson
Nobody seems to know yet how many records were compromised, judging from what I can find online. At least it's not like the UC San Diego Cancer Center breach... 30,000 people notified about a hack that gave access to names & addresses, date of birth, and medical records. http://datalossdb.org/inci

Re: 1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

2009-07-18 Thread Alan Dayley
The irony is very, very thick and not lost on me. If it were fiction, the reader would disrespect the author for using so obvious a connection. It would be very funny if it was fiction. Alan On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 9:42 AM, James Finstrom wrote: > Am I the onlyone who sees the irony here. An en

Re: 1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

2009-07-18 Thread James Finstrom
Am I the onlyone who sees the irony here. An entity who has the ability to control what you can and can't read and ummm the book 1984 On 7/18/09, Alan Dayley wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Austin William > Wright wrote: >> It is this one, >> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.

PLUG Security TEST Team: Elance Alert

2009-07-18 Thread Lisa Kachold
NOTE: To HackFesters, Elance is not a FLAG: -- Forwarded message -- From: Elance Trust and Safety Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:39:59 -0500 Subject: Elance Alert To: To ensure you receive future emails, please add re...@announce.elance.com to your Safe Sender list. View as a Web Pag

Re: 1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

2009-07-18 Thread Alan Dayley
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Austin William Wright wrote: > It is this one, > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html > > Stallman, as usual, is right, even if (I think) for all the wrong > reasons. Copyright is something that could not exist in a free society, > the only way it can ex

Re: 1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

2009-07-18 Thread Austin William Wright
Alan Dayley wrote: > [...] > > Amazing. The holy grail of publishing: licensing for a limited time > and the ability to pull it back when wanted. > - No more need to go through the work of releasing a new edition of a > text book, just take it away from everyone at the end of the semester! > - Mak

Re: 1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

2009-07-18 Thread David Munson
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Alan Dayley wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Bob Elzer wrote: > > > > Apparently if you bought the George Orwell book 1984 on amazon for your > > kindle, you actually became part of the story today. > > > > Amazon deleted the books from your kindle, witho

Re: ext? as fat or ntfs?

2009-07-18 Thread der.hans
Am 17. Jul, 2009 schwätzte kitepi...@kitepilot.com so: If it is for only few M$ machines, there are ext3 drivers for windoze. Else, you are pretty much stuck with NTFS/FAT. Well, I want some thumb drives with free and open filesystems that can be used everywhere. We'll tackle *BЅDs once we hav

Re: ext? as fat or ntfs?

2009-07-18 Thread der.hans
Am 17. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Ryan Rix so: Best alternative: Make it bootable with your favorite GNU/Linux distro on it! :) :) Having a VirtualBox VM that runs and makes samba available might be what we need to do. That would use lots of space and resources, though :(. We need WINE for windows

RE: ext? as fat or ntfs?

2009-07-18 Thread der.hans
Am 17. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Bob Elzer so: I agree with Ryan, if you want to see an ext2 or ext3 partition on M$, then you could have a small fat or ntfs with the ext2IFS http://www.fs-driver.org/ on it. It's a kernel module, so I'm not certain about getting it installed. You would have to ins

Re: ext? as fat or ntfs?

2009-07-18 Thread der.hans
Am 17. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Ed so: two partitions and anacron running rsync? or something like that, maybe tied into the hotplug or the mount sub-systems. Well, that's wasting the space. I want most of the disk dedicated to a free and open filesystem. I only want the m$ stuff, so people can s

Re: ext? as fat or ntfs?

2009-07-18 Thread der.hans
Am 17. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Ryan Rix so: If you don't have admin rights, there's no way. Outside of that, you could, mayhaps, use ext2IFS, with a lot of hacking. Can ext2ifs be run with autorun or single click type of thing? It requires admin access? I hope it does :). ciao, der.hans -- # ht