Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news.alt.net!not-for-mail From: owl Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: fucking firefox Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 02:25:52 +0000 (UTC) Organization: ok by me, so long as it doesn't get out of hand Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: boom.rooftop.invalid User-Agent: tin/1.4-19991113 ("No Labels") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.38-16-generic (x86_64)) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:286668 Snit wrote: > On 3/29/15, 6:38 PM, in article hg83.03a@rooftop.invalid, "owl" > wrote: >> Snit wrote: >>> On 3/29/15, 5:55 PM, in article xcjd3.4a5@rooftop.invalid, "owl" >>> wrote: >> >>>> Snit wrote: >>>>> On 3/29/15, 1:29 PM, in article bvhdu0.f30@rooftop.invalid, "owl" >>>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>>> Snit wrote: >>>>>> >>>> ... >>>> >>>>>>> Linux screws things up for the primary users of NTFS systems by not >>>>>>> following the Windows standards, even as an easy to use option: >>>>>> >>>>>> Linux is following the NTFS standard. And since Linux is not >>>>>> Windows, it does not have to play by Windows rules when it interfaces >>>>>> with NTFS. >>>> >>>>> That is like saying you will go by an official French book when you visit >>>>> Paris and insist the people in Paris are wrong when they use their own >>>>> vernacular. >>>> >>>> No, it's like going to paris and insisting that they use verbs instead >>>> of some mishmash of spoken language and charades. >> >>> How? Paris is the land. If you go there speak as they do. >> >>> NTFS is the file system of Windows. If you use NTFS use it as Windows does - >>> at least as an easy to set option. >> >> Umm.. you do realize that NTFS is used for more than just a place to >> install a windoze distro, right? Lots of people have external drives >> formatted to NTFS. No OS at all. Why should they be resticted to >> speaking to their data like a windoze-stroke-victim? > You are not showing any understanding that NTFS is the Windows native file > systems. Wow. Not sure where to go from there. Maybe having you read even > the first sentence of the Wikipedia page will help? > > ----- > NTFS (New Technology File System[1]) is a proprietary file system > developed by Microsoft.[1] Starting with Windows NT 3.1, it is the > default file system of Windows NT family.[7] > ----- And it has been fully case-sensitive since day one. :) Maybe just waiting for Linux to come around.