well said randallman, lets not give even more power anyone who would even patent "that thing which i sometimes look out of".
also, i have a related question about nas / fat referred to in this thread. i bought a nas drive, thinking that it would be a great backup solution. as far as i can ascertain i don't have an choice with the filesystem, only fat. as soon as i discovered this i decided nas wasn't for me and bought an eSata docking station which allows me to plug in any SATA, inc laptop, drive. i've not started playing, i.e. testing, it yet but i certainly hope i will be able to use any filesystem. i'm currently thinking along the lines always use EXT3, the eSATA is plugged into a Linux box so any windows machines could simply access it via the network. am i wrong?
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well said randallman, lets not give even more power anyone who would even patent "that thing which i sometimes look out of". also, i have a related question about nas / fat referred to in this thread. i bought a nas drive, thinking that it would be a great backup solution. as far as i can ascertain i don't have an choice with the filesystem, only fat. as soon as i discovered this i decided nas wasn't for me and bought an eSata docking station which allows me to plug in any SATA, inc laptop, drive. i've not started playing, i.e. testing, it yet but i certainly hope i will be able to use any filesystem. i'm currently thinking along the lines always use EXT3, the eSATA is plugged into a Linux box so any windows machines could simply access it via the network. am i wrong?