We need to get together and demand that they provide the music we paid for! They should rewrite part of the game to make it play the songs as MP3s. If not, they should at least provide the music for downloading so we could burn it to CD. Can anyone provide contact numbers for these folks? If we call enough times, they have to listen to us, right?
I would not call EXT2IFS a viable option. I had my ext2 partitions wiped out by Windows before. Don't expect to be able to use your linux filesystems in windows. let the linux guys support the windows crap; they will do a better job of it anyway (NTFS-3g).
definitely not read only. I'm running ubuntu, but the command should be similar on other OSes. Try this:
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
mount -t ntfs-3g/dev/sda1/mnt/myHardDrive -o rw,uid=myUserID,gid=myGroup
replace/dev/sda1 with your harddrive and/mnt/myHardDrive with the mount location. Obviously, the rw option is the important bit for read-write access.
You can even put this in your fstab and have it mounted automatically if you so choose.
I agree with the parent. A lot of stuff I buy just does not require a physical store and there is absolutely no advantage to buying it at one (except for instant gratification).
For the vast majority of purchases, online shopping provides much more information about the product than some know-nothing salesperson who is only interested in making a sale. I want to read reviews of the product from the consumer's point of view. I want to comparison shop without wasting time and gas money. I want to post on forums and get more information from people who already bought the product. No store is going to let me sit down and browse the web in the store to do all this. Whenever I buy something in a store I get this icky feeling that I am probably paying too much.
The cost of this online convenience is shipping (ignoring the fact that many online stores have free shipping). I would have paid this price anyway just by having to drive to the store. The only worthwhile stores are the ones that sell products that are too heavy/inconvenient/perishable/expensive to ship. I say, the hell with most stores. They are obsolete.
Yeah it might cost $50 as your local CELL PHONE STORE but what kind of idiot would actually purchase one of the batteries they sell there, when they could just as easily order the equivalent battery from a reputable Ebay vendor for $6.99 (shipping included).
I had to replace the original battery in my LG VX6100 after about a year and guess what, the Hong Kong battery has lasted longer than the original name-brand one.
To me, it is extremely distasteful that Apple would go to such great lengths (soldering in the battery) to prevent 3rd party iPhone batteries from being easy to install. I think this may even be true for iPods (can someone confirm?). These shenanigans just reaffirm my belief that Apple hardware (and a lot of name-brand PC hardware) is for the rich and/or clueless.
umm excuse me, but i give a fuck about lynx. and I'm not a longbearded linux geek either.. I just happen to like browsing websites with a text-only browser once in a while. mainly when i am using a slow ass dial-up connection to connect to my linux server over ssh. in those cases, its faster to load the pages up in lynx than it is to wait for either opera or firefox to display them. when pages work decently in lynx, i can appreciate it.
Finger length can predict nada. They are completely wrong in my case. My index finger is at least 3-4 mm longer than my ring finger (too lazy to get out a ruler). However, I am a male with strong math skills and mediocre verbal skills. My SAT scores and my major in college both support this.
I'm not sure if I am a very rare case or if this kind of study really is BS. Anybody else find themself opposite of what their ring finger is supposed to predict?
Who says you even need a plugin? Just go to about:config, right-click and enter a new string that is named "general.useragent.override" and for the value enter anything you like. Examples of user agent strings can be found here.
My university imposed this crapola on all dorm residents during the summer to test it out. I wasn't there, but my girlfriend's computer suffered the consequences of it. They forced her to uninstall the AVG antivirus and Comodo firewall that I configured, and during the transition her computer was massively hijacked. I'll admit, the dorm networks there are atrocious and this type of software might have been a good idea. Worms/viruses were absolutely rampant; two or three times a day AVG would popup saying it found a threat in some random temporary folder, and the firewall would report numerous "intrusion attempts". However, they didn't even warn people that they would be COMPLETELY unprotected while they are installing the new protection software. If I was there I would have unplugged the network cable during all this. Opening the ports for even five minutes proved disastrous. Needless to say I ended up reformatting.
They never did implement CCA after the trial. Now, the dorm network is simply bandwidth-throttled and packet-shaped to oblivion. Dial-up is faster, I am sure. It's still a security risk, but so slow that no one gives a shit.
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We need to get together and demand that they provide the music we paid for! They should rewrite part of the game to make it play the songs as MP3s. If not, they should at least provide the music for downloading so we could burn it to CD. Can anyone provide contact numbers for these folks? If we call enough times, they have to listen to us, right?
Guess that means you are stuck with NTFS
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/myHardDrive -o rw,uid=myUserID,gid=myGroup
definitely not read only. I'm running ubuntu, but the command should be similar on other OSes. Try this: sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/myHardDrive -o rw,uid=myUserID,gid=myGroup
replace /dev/sda1 with your harddrive and /mnt/myHardDrive with the mount location. Obviously, the rw option is the important bit for read-write access.
You can even put this in your fstab and have it mounted automatically if you so choose.
I agree with the parent. A lot of stuff I buy just does not require a physical store and there is absolutely no advantage to buying it at one (except for instant gratification). For the vast majority of purchases, online shopping provides much more information about the product than some know-nothing salesperson who is only interested in making a sale. I want to read reviews of the product from the consumer's point of view. I want to comparison shop without wasting time and gas money. I want to post on forums and get more information from people who already bought the product. No store is going to let me sit down and browse the web in the store to do all this. Whenever I buy something in a store I get this icky feeling that I am probably paying too much. The cost of this online convenience is shipping (ignoring the fact that many online stores have free shipping). I would have paid this price anyway just by having to drive to the store. The only worthwhile stores are the ones that sell products that are too heavy/inconvenient/perishable/expensive to ship. I say, the hell with most stores. They are obsolete.
Yeah it might cost $50 as your local CELL PHONE STORE but what kind of idiot would actually purchase one of the batteries they sell there, when they could just as easily order the equivalent battery from a reputable Ebay vendor for $6.99 (shipping included).
I had to replace the original battery in my LG VX6100 after about a year and guess what, the Hong Kong battery has lasted longer than the original name-brand one.
To me, it is extremely distasteful that Apple would go to such great lengths (soldering in the battery) to prevent 3rd party iPhone batteries from being easy to install. I think this may even be true for iPods (can someone confirm?). These shenanigans just reaffirm my belief that Apple hardware (and a lot of name-brand PC hardware) is for the rich and/or clueless.
umm excuse me, but i give a fuck about lynx. and I'm not a longbearded linux geek either.. I just happen to like browsing websites with a text-only browser once in a while. mainly when i am using a slow ass dial-up connection to connect to my linux server over ssh. in those cases, its faster to load the pages up in lynx than it is to wait for either opera or firefox to display them. when pages work decently in lynx, i can appreciate it.
Finger length can predict nada. They are completely wrong in my case. My index finger is at least 3-4 mm longer than my ring finger (too lazy to get out a ruler). However, I am a male with strong math skills and mediocre verbal skills. My SAT scores and my major in college both support this. I'm not sure if I am a very rare case or if this kind of study really is BS. Anybody else find themself opposite of what their ring finger is supposed to predict?
Who says you even need a plugin? Just go to about:config, right-click and enter a new string that is named "general.useragent.override" and for the value enter anything you like. Examples of user agent strings can be found here.
My university imposed this crapola on all dorm residents during the summer to test it out. I wasn't there, but my girlfriend's computer suffered the consequences of it. They forced her to uninstall the AVG antivirus and Comodo firewall that I configured, and during the transition her computer was massively hijacked. I'll admit, the dorm networks there are atrocious and this type of software might have been a good idea. Worms/viruses were absolutely rampant; two or three times a day AVG would popup saying it found a threat in some random temporary folder, and the firewall would report numerous "intrusion attempts". However, they didn't even warn people that they would be COMPLETELY unprotected while they are installing the new protection software. If I was there I would have unplugged the network cable during all this. Opening the ports for even five minutes proved disastrous. Needless to say I ended up reformatting.
They never did implement CCA after the trial. Now, the dorm network is simply bandwidth-throttled and packet-shaped to oblivion. Dial-up is faster, I am sure. It's still a security risk, but so slow that no one gives a shit.