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Am doing the 'unproductive' thing today. This is probably because I was up far too late/early last night/this morning again, and also because of sheer inertia. Have broken MSN, and hardly anyone is around in general. (Trillian can cope - booted into Windows to check - but GAIM panicks when it gets a server error (which is due to having a nonexistant account on my list, but I can't get rid of it because it's nonexistant) and just disconnects itself. I could probably do with working out why this is soon; any ideas?)

I was planning to play Dune for nostalgia purposes, but got distracted trying to make my USB floppy drive work under Linux for easy transfering of small files from Linux to XP (because Linux can't write to ntfs, and XP can't read the Linux partition...). Moondaughter stubbornly refuses to acknowledge the existance of a floppy drive, however.

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~/.gaim/blist.bml is your friend. edit it and remove the <account> tag for the problematic account.

darnit, ~/.gaim/blist.xml. LJ is clearly getting to me.

Why dont you jam a fat16 partition in there to transfer the data it worked quite well on my old work machine.

And if your bored i can install msn on my work machine. Or find an irc server you dont mind useing.

The wounders of boxs outside the work firewall are great ;-)

Take care. Have a nice day.

or scp them up to pinkstuff and down again.

Mm, that probably works better than emailing stuff to myself. I gave up on the idea after a bit anyhow, having remembered most of the game.

Now theres a good plan.

Or another local machine if linux can read the disk.

Why cant it do NTFS? NetBSD can read it?

I never thought of anything better than a VFAT partition either; instead of having a tiny "virtual floppy drive" I tend to use big VFAT partitions and keep all my music/archived downloads/other bulk storage on them, since that's usually all I want to share between OSs. It's not ideal by any means (I discover how useful symlinks are whenever I create a filesystem that can't do them!), but if you mount it in Linux with options uid=123,gid=456,showexec,quiet it's not too unpleasant (replace 123, 456 with your uid and gid - probably both 1000 if you run something Debianish).

I briefly even had a VFAT partition for the same purpose on my Mac, until I discovered Linux HFS+ drivers (pretty wobbly in my experience, I wouldn't want to trust them for major write access) and Mac OS X ext2 drivers (which seem stable *crosses fingers*).

It can read NTFS, but support for writing to NTFS is experimental. (That's not to say you can't try it, but have backups first ...)

Linux can read NTFS, and has experimental write support (I've not tried that). Windows can read ext2 and reiser partitions if you download explore2fs and the reiser equivalent... I don't have urls handy, but I'm sure you know how to google...

I know that problem well, I wouldn't use XP at all were it not for the fact that I've inherited some very large NTFS partitions where most of my ~~warez~~ large downloads go and WineX is still a bit flaky for some of my favorite games.

I've heard that 2.6 has better NTFS support (though I understand NTFS is write-safe anyway as long as the file size remains unchanged), though your best bet is probably one of the nifty ext2-explorers for Windoze. I use explore2fs - google it and enjoy :)