haha! well, maybe now their hollywood accounting will come back to bite them in the ass as they struggle to show that the songs are now worth massive damages, when they were worth nothing or less as they computed royalties for the artists they were screwing.

hell with that, i use GUN/Linux

I heard they will be renaming the project to Orcale.

The corruption of a civilization's primary means for communicating and archiving knowledge is among the gravest of evils.

The killer app soon followed, Lotus 1-2-3. One showing of this app to anyone in business made DOS so valuable that pc's became as ubiquitous as water. Everyone started making PC's that could run DOS & Lotus 1-2-3. The price of hardware then drops like a rock as everyone started making it and ultimately farming that work out to Asia driving prices down further. Apple never appealed to business, the needs of which really drive innovation. You can appreciate a personal computer as you would a Stradivarius, but that's not a need. Business had a real need for an electronic spreadsheet.

And now, sadly, we know exactly what happens to an economy when its businessmen make their decisions based on the output of those unsound spreadsheets.

imagine, for a moment, a system with both windows and linux installed on it. each OS wants to read the data stored by the other. ntfs-3g solves the problem in one direction, and 128-bit inode enable fs-driver to solve it in the other direction.

i write differently for technical audiences and for nontechnical audiences. i am sorry i didn't insult the fine readers of slashdot with a condescending seventeen paragraph howto that explains what a computer is and how it organizes data. of course, for someone who thinks "-I 128" is cryptic, yet has no problem with "%SystemRoot%" or the labyrinth of deceptively labeled tabs and dialogs it takes to change vista's "shutdown" button to a button that shuts the machine down, i suppose there's no hope.

thank you, i will try this the next time i boot windows.

ext2fsd and fs-driver both work on vista. and they'll both mount my ext3 filesystems, as long as i formatted them with the right inode size.

the issue you (eventually) link to basically says that all ext2/3 filesystems mounted on vista are the equivalent of noexec. i don't think it is accurate to describe that as a significant issue. i don't know many people who keep substantial quantities of windows executables on their linux drives. the permissions system on ext2/3 is totally wrong for windows anyway, so you'd never use it for, say, %ProgramFiles% or %SystemRoot%.

do not disable UAC.

the problem i have with vista's driver support is that on amd64 it requires them to be cryptographically signed by some sort of extortion outfit, or i have to press F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 F8 up up enter every time i boot the system in order to get it to load the drivers i need.

when you're setting up your own filesystems, however... just use ntfs-3g and fs-driver. problems solved. just don't forget to use mke2fs -I 128

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