I'm sorry, dad. You know I would never have tried to save River's life if I had known there was a dinner party at risk.

Simon ,'Safe'


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DCJensen - Dec 30, 2013 5:52:07 pm PST #23490 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

There are a variety of ways to do it, some paid, some free.

Solutions for writing to NTFS drives in OS X - TechRepublic [link]

And some free

How to manually enable NTFS read and write in OS X | MacFixIt [link]


DCJensen - Dec 30, 2013 5:57:55 pm PST #23491 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

Looks like it might be a limitation of FAT on the PC, rather than NTFS. FAT32 took care of this on the PC side, but Windows 7 and above prefer NTFS.

It looks like a case by case issue, as sme peole have no problem with OSX Mavericks, others still do.

There are, however ways around it.

If you don't have files over 4 GB, it's moot, of course.


tommyrot - Dec 31, 2013 6:15:46 am PST #23492 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

tommyrot - Dec 31, 2013 6:24:51 am PST #23493 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Tom Scola - Dec 31, 2013 6:30:58 am PST #23494 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Can you just do a search-and-replace on the entities, (i.e. s/¢/¢/g) instead of adding the ENTITY declaration?


Tom Scola - Dec 31, 2013 6:35:06 am PST #23495 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Or if you add your ENTITY declaration, then round-trip the document through an XML processor, do the entities get replaced automatically?


tommyrot - Dec 31, 2013 6:50:07 am PST #23496 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Can you just do a search-and-replace on the entities, (i.e. s/¢/¢/g) instead of adding the ENTITY declaration?

That's a good idea. But I just talked to my boss and he wants to go in a different direction. (Only a few files have that entity problem so we're gonna just have an exception for that issue.)


Jessica - Jan 02, 2014 4:11:11 am PST #23497 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Ok, who wants to help me with Tasker? I've turned on just about every "silent" setting I can in my "work" profile, but the phone is still making the annoying "bloop" sound every time the screen turns on or off.


beekaytee - Jan 02, 2014 10:21:06 am PST #23498 of 25496
Compassionately intolerant

I need a reality check.

I have two Mac G5 towers, dual cores, etc. that are Powerpc and not Intel chipped.

Does it make sense for me to try and sell them via Craigslist,(cash would be super helpful right now) or should I take the opportunity to drop them off at an e-cylcing event a friend can drive me to this Saturday.

They've been sitting in my living room for months, along with a huge Dell monitor that began acting wonky last October.

Does tech stuff like this even sell?


tommyrot - Jan 02, 2014 10:24:34 am PST #23499 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Does tech stuff like this even sell?

Dunno. Maybe someone could turn then into small office print and file servers?