on 7/1/05 7:48 PM, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Some old Mac apps might have a little trouble, but > hopefully that won't be too serious for $HOME usage.
what about resource forks and other peculiarities which are still to be dealt with on the mac os side, even now (in spite of metadata being quite a good thing, if it only was more cross-platform)? iirc, there were some troubles with ufs. at least some time ago, i remember several mac applications not working on ufs partitions. anybody with more recent experience? apart from that, thinking about having crus...^h^h^h^h fat invading my ~ gives me the creeps, anyway <shudder!> just external use under unfortunate circumstances. and even then no admittance past the front gate. ;) a small dedicated server on a local network is propably a better solution in many cases, anyway (as long as data transfer rates are not mission critical). plus the benefit of making that abandoned old hardware of yours feel proud and useful again... ;-) best, sascha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
