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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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[marnanel.livejournal.com]

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

[dr-vannacutt.livejournal.com]

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.

[marble.livejournal.com]

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...

[the-aviator.livejournal.com]

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 :)