led_belly - Slashdot User

Comment NTFS (Score 0) 253

by led_belly on Thursday July 01, 2010 @08:00PM (#32766610) Attached to: Best Format For OS X and Linux HDD?

journalling is there to help provide a safe guard against data loss and corruption. using HFS+ without the journal can be risky - I have experienced problems personally from this - any freeze up, reboot without proper unmounting of the drive, etc and you are in trouble. While I haven't tried NTFS is seems to be the most compatible between OS's, meets your requirements for file size of 80 GB's:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

A FREE driver is required:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/NTFS-3G (this driver seems well tested and stable)

Comment Nexus One (Score 0) 289

by led_belly on Monday June 28, 2010 @08:39AM (#32715266) Attached to: Best Phone For a Wi-Fi-Only Location?

Can anyone provide any information on the Nexus One as it pertains to this article?

Sending Secret Messages Via Google's SearchWiki 160

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @01:23AM from the your-mission-should-you-choose-to-accept-it dept.

We discussed the advent of Google's SearchWiki when it was introduced a few days back. Now Lauren Weinstein offers a thought experiment in transmitting coded messages using SearchWiki, with a working example encoded into the results of this Google search.

Comment my cat's soul (Score 0) 630

by led_belly on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @12:32PM (#25819035) Attached to: Ray Kurzweil Wonders, Can Machines Ever Have Souls?

my cat is sad that the existence of her 'soul' is not accepted by society at large.

Proactive Self Defense 2

Posted by samzenpus on Friday February 15, 2008 @02:49PM

samzenpus writes "This program teaches you not to be a passive victim of violence but rather to seek out your attacker. The gun helps."

Journal Journal: Mandrake 9.1

Journal by led_belly on Thursday August 14, 2003 @02:07AM

Today I installed MAndrake 9.1, completely overwriting the old 8.1 version I had on there. I had some problems in the beginning from an outdated BIOS but I updated it and the install went ahead. Another problem was that since I also have a partition with Windows XP on it and had stupidly formatted a second hard drive from Windows rather than DOS. This made it unrecognizable and made the Linux installation take a long time to continue since it couldn't do a proper check on the drive. I restart

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