> From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The Fool wrote: > > > >> But NTFS is not visible to Linux. > > > > I'm _sure_ there are versions of programs in specific linux distros > > that do understand NTFS. > > > > Ask some of the more serious linux gurus to help you (I'm sure > > there's a newsgroup that can help you set it up right). > > Now you force me to do a little Linux bashing :-)
Never a bad thing. > My experience with Linux has some moments of frustration, because > it seems that 80% of packages don't work. Specifically, after > I have a working distro, then 80% of the new stuff I want to add > has severe bugs that make them (it?) incompatible. And people wonder why I don't sing the praises of linux. > Also, I never found a newsgroup with gurus that could help me. > All my problems were analysed, solutions were proposed, but > they seldom worked. Funny I never had that problem with the microsoft newsgroups I used. > So I won't even try to see NTFS in Linux. Even much simpler > things, like glpk or tux racer, don't work. Thoeretically if you can get wine working you can run much better software designed for...windows. I've seen NTFS functionality with older versions of caldera (SCO) linux among others. It exists. > End of Linux bashing - OTOH, the things that work are really > great, with many possibilities for intelligent design [oops...] > and learning. I'll reiterate that I can have uptimes of 6 months without crashes in windows NT 4.0sp6 and windows2000sp4. I can have upwards of 60 separate Internet explorer sessions going, for literally months, without any crashes whatsoever. I'ts about knowing what you doing. > Right now, my hobby has been learning perl. It's frustrating, > because I know so many different languages that learning a > new one gives little pleasure - there's no psychological reward > for learning a difficult thing :-) > > Maybe I should challenge myself to _teach_ perl to my kids... Write your own c++ compiler that has built in strings, no buffer overflow flaws (no evil printf like functions), built in lex, and yacc, and perl-like functionality. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
