Novelty sells, part II
Now that I’ve spent the last hour and change on an entirely different post, my wireless card has decided it doesn’t want to play with Linux any more. Wordpress usually saves my drafts automatically, but apparently it didn’t think that one was worth it.
All is not lost, no worries. I saved the post as a text file, but I don’t know* how to get it over here to the Windows side of things, i.e., the side that understands the wireless card’s deep emotional needs. Or however computer stuff communicates. Magical unicorn energy.
For now I would like to mention the Chocolate Raspberry Cream Cheese Muffin.
It’s a winner. An entirely inadequate substitute to a Raspberry Explosion from my dear, dear Chocolate Cafe (I miss you so much already!), to be sure, but in the realm of mere muffins it holds its own. The dollop of hardened cream cheese, IMO, doesn’t add much to the muffin experience besides fat**—next time I’ll dig it out and leave it aside—but chocolate, raspberries, chocolate chips … all good. As for the calorie count, it’s, um, more than fifty and less than five hundred. Barely. B+.
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* I do know, I think. I remember John saying that Linux could open Windows files, but not vice versa, so I figured I couldn’t get to it (I don’t have my flash drive with me, and email is a no-go without wireless). But now that I think about it, he must have said that Linux could look into the Windows partition, but not the other way around. So maybe if I saved it in a Windows folder to begin with? In a Windows-readable format? I have not tried this.
It’s okay to laugh at me, computer-capable people. I can’t hear you anyway.
** The only food items with more fat grams than the CRCC muffin are the Spiced Brownie with Nuts, the Carrot Cake with Nuts, and … wait for it … the No Sugar Added Banana Nut Coffee Cake. Dude. Stay away from that banana nut.
June 8th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Maybe I’m wrong, but you can’t write on ntfs (using Linux). I whish I were computer-capable; someday, I’ll get Slackware and learn on OS. What about diskette drive? [Ops] Diskettes… That’s uncommon - these days. I’m old. ..
June 9th, 2007 at 10:16 am
About reading and writing windows files in Linux…
There is support for reading files from NTFS (NT4.0, 2k, XP, Server2k3) and FAT/FAT16/FAT32 (Everything older, and some of the above if you chose to install onto a FAT partition), fairly natively to recent distributions.
There is write support to FAT. There is not native write support to NTFS. There are non-native “driver” implementations to allow writing to NTFS. http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ provides possibly the best solution.
June 9th, 2007 at 11:21 am
Hmmm. Yes, I remember this FAT/NTFS thing, but I forget which one I have. But my personal computer-dude said it would work, so if it doesn’t, I’ll just poke him until he fixes it with his nerd-magic.
June 9th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
NTFS-3G is a 100% native read-write NTFS driver for Linux. It’s highly reliable, more than 80 Linux distributions use it already.