On 13 November 2011 18:40, Avi Greenbury wrote:
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> alan c wrote:
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> > In hindsight the biggest problem I had (emotionally that is) was
> > recognising that even when there was a clear motivation for Ubuntu,
> > there were very strong immediate influences indeed against (ubuntu) on
> > grounds o
Correct, however it doesn't change the fact that the very good advice was
dismissed in that way and ubuntu is made to look bad. Far from it, the fact
it can write to NTFS at all is a damn miracle!
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> alan c wrote:
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> > In hindsight the bigges
alan c wrote:
> In hindsight the biggest problem I had (emotionally that is) was
> recognising that even when there was a clear motivation for Ubuntu,
> there were very strong immediate influences indeed against (ubuntu) on
> grounds of an 'NTFS Drivers' myth. I can guess that he had simply not
>
On 13/11/11 01:04, Alan Pope wrote:
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> On 12 Nov 2011, at 23:29, alan c wrote:
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>> On 12/11/11 18:41, Barry Drake wrote:
>>> On 12/11/11 17:03, alan c wrote:
Yes, sorry, I was too vague, SMART errors. I explained to her at the
time that we were not looking at her Windows, and thi
On 13 November 2011 10:23, LeeGroups wrote:
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> Which reminds me that I recently found an old receipt for a drive I bought
> in 1997. It cost £160 (which was worth a lot more 14 yrs ago) and gave me an
> enormous (at the time) 2.5G.
> Yes, two and a half gigabytes... approx a third of what's c
I have always found the Ubuntu disc utility to be reliable, and checks
ot fairly well with a seagate tool I have too. Any other experiences?
Well, it's as good as SMART is, which is vague at best.
True, a hard drive can fail without throwing
Hi all,
the next Happy Hour will be on the 8th of December in Surbiton. A well
connected part of West London with good train access to everywhere. The
exact venue is yet to be determined, but the intrepid explorer Dan Fish
has volunteered to take one for the team and go on a research expeditio
On 12/11/11 15:20, alan c wrote:
Thanks So each participant must be in a circle - mutually as it were?
So if I wanted a post to be seen by everyone who is following Ubuntu
UK Team, is there a way for this? -- alan cocks Ubuntu user
You can ask me to reshare it I think. Oddly enough there is n
