Re: Thumb-drive format

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Thumb-drive format
Date	2014-07-24 14:40 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<c3ck6uFmaj0U4@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2014-07-24, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2014.07.24, 01:37 , Lewis 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. It's not difficult,
>> 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.
>
> Agree.  I used such to help someone recover a disk some months ago. 
> Worked.  Slooooooowly.

The point it is works. Thanks for playing.

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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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