Re: Thumb-drive format

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From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject	Re: Thumb-drive format
Date	24 Jul 2014 14:40:03 GMT
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On 2014-07-24, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> Okay, so one time? In band camp? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> was all, like: 
>  --> 	 23 Jul 2014 22:43:51 GMT <c3as57FanbjU4@mid.individual.net>
>> On 2014-07-23, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
>>> In article <c3ap1tFanbjU1@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
>>><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2014-07-23, John <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:
>>>> > On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:39:34 -0400, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >>the fact that you have to install a third party hack for the ability to
>>>> >>write ntfs confirms what i said.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>and it really is just a hack since the ntfs format is proprietary and
>>>> >>had to be reverse engineered, which means it may not have 100%
>>>> >>compatibility, something that can be a very serious problem.
>>>> >
>>>> >  Okay. You know best. I'm wrong. I'm *always* wrong. You are *always*
>>>> > right. 
>>>> >  This was a fine discussion but you win.
>>>> >  Your prize is my continued absence.
>>>
>>>> Get used to it. He never admits he is wrong about anything. He'll argue
>>>> about minutia until the end of time or until you get bored with him and
>>>> leave the discussion (which he will naturally count as some sort of
>>>> private victory for himself) before he lets that happen.
>>>
>>> Is he wrong about ntfs then?
>
>> Which part? The part where he seems to lead one to believe it's not
>> brain-dead easy and reliable in practice to drag and drop files to NTFS
>> volumes in Mac OS X? Anyone who has bothered to use such software with
>> Mac OS X knows that it's exactly that. Or were you talking about some
>> other aspect of it?
>
> Um.. what? You can't write to an NTFS volume under OS X without
> installing something like MacFuse and a NTFS plugin.

So install it. Simple.

> It's not difficult,

Exactly.

> but it is also astonishingly slow. Unless it's gotten a LOT better, it
> capped out for me at about 4MB/s (or about the same as my download
> speed), far short of the ~60MB/s I get copying to other formats.

We're talking about thumb drives, where speed isn't critical. And you're
ignoring the fact that such software, while it may or may not be
considered slow, does work reliably, which is counter to what
mr.know-it-all suggests.

-- 
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JR

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Thumb-drive format gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-07-22 12:48 -0700
  Re: Thumb-drive format nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-22 15:56 -0400
    Re: Thumb-drive format gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-07-22 14:40 -0700
      Re: Thumb-drive format Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-07-23 13:15 +1200
        Re: Thumb-drive format John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2014-07-23 04:55 +0100
          Re: Thumb-drive format nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-23 00:01 -0400
            Re: Thumb-drive format Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-07-23 02:56 -0700
              Re: Thumb-drive format dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-07-23 23:48 +1200
            Re: Thumb-drive format John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2014-07-23 20:30 +0100
              Re: Thumb-drive format nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-23 16:39 -0400
                Re: Thumb-drive format John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2014-07-23 22:33 +0100
                Re: Thumb-drive format Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-23 21:50 +0000
                Re: Thumb-drive format nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-23 18:08 -0400
                Re: Thumb-drive format dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-07-24 08:54 +1000
                Re: Thumb-drive format Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-07-23 23:09 +0100
                Re: Thumb-drive format Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-23 22:43 +0000
                Re: Thumb-drive format nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-23 23:04 -0400
                Re: Thumb-drive format Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-24 14:37 +0000
                Re: Thumb-drive format Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-24 05:37 +0000
                Re: Thumb-drive format Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-07-24 08:43 -0400
                Re: Thumb-drive format Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-24 14:40 +0000
                Re: Thumb-drive format Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-29 00:48 +0000
                Re: Thumb-drive format Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-29 01:06 +0000
                Re: Thumb-drive format nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-28 22:35 -0400
                Re: Thumb-drive format Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-24 14:40 +0000
                Re: Thumb-drive format Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-29 00:51 +0000
                Re: Thumb-drive format Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-29 01:18 +0000
                Re: Thumb-drive format Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-29 05:02 +0000
                Re: Thumb-drive format gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-07-23 17:00 -0700
  Re: Thumb-drive format Darrin "Doc" O'Leary  <droleary@3q2014.subsume.com> - 2014-07-22 21:19 +0000
    Re: Thumb-drive format Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-22 21:49 +0000
  Re: Thumb-drive format Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-22 21:49 +0000
  Re: Thumb-drive format Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-07-23 07:56 -0400
    Re: Thumb-drive format dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-07-24 01:26 +1200
      Re: Thumb-drive format Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-07-23 10:11 -0400
    Re: Thumb-drive format nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-23 09:33 -0400
      Re: Thumb-drive format Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-07-23 10:12 -0400
        Re: Thumb-drive format Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-07-23 15:57 +0100
  Re: Thumb-drive format Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-23 12:41 +0000
    Re: Thumb-drive format Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> - 2014-07-23 08:30 -0700
      Re: Thumb-drive format dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-07-24 10:29 +1200
        Re: Thumb-drive format Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> - 2014-07-26 21:28 +1000

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