[Coco] Screen capture

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 18 October 2012 19:01:24 Stephen H. Fischer did opine:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 1:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Screen capture
> 
> > On Thursday 18 October 2012 16:46:30 Bill Pierce did opine:
> >> P.S. And before Gene answers, for Windows
> > 
> > Windows?  I thought that was a swear word... :)
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers, Gene
> 
> No, it is Linux.
> 
> I just broke the RAID 1 array in my NAS into JBOD so that I could
> increase it's size to 2 TB from 1 TB.
> 
> All this CoCo work has filled it up with captured DTV.
> 
> Now if one of the disks fails, even a little, I must throw away 1 TB of
> DTV and or Windows backups (which I have not used any part of for over
> a decade).
> 
> The NAS uses the free Linux software and there is no capability of
> recovering now. Before as it was RAID 1 I could replace the disk and
> recover everything. Previous Seagate product was sent to Mexico for
> replacement three times before Seagate took pity on me and upgraded to
> a better product. A 1" fan for two drives in a box that was as tight as
> it could have been made. :-II
> 
> If it really was NTFS then I could mount the drive in one of my desktop
> machines and use lots of programs to recover.
> 
> With EXT3 I am screwed.
> 
Man, you really have drunk the kool-aid.  I could probably plug that NAS 
into my machine and fix anything it did except crap drives in a day or so.  
We have repair software for ext2-3-4 and several other filesystems although 
I won't claim the NTFS support is 100% in write mode since that has all 
been reverse engineered and M$ has publicly threatened extensive legal 
action if we get too close to that.

We can handle any type of a raid setup the NAS folks can dream up.  
Particularly if the NAS is actually running linux.

Don't be so enamored of NTFS, it seems to have a penchant for looking at 
the clock/calendar, and randomly deleting an important file at nominally 
yearly intervals.  And despite your having a legal bill of sale complete 
with a registration number, the only way to get another copy of that file 
is to buy another copy of NTSF.  Been to that dog and pony show twice at 
the tv station, at a cost for new licenses of something over $800 back up 
the log far enough that was about my paycheck.

After having been treated like that by M$, it will be the same day that 
winged pigs wearing ice skates start using hell for a runway before they 
get another penny from me personally.

> Yes there is a Windows program that I heard about, but that would mean
> learning much more about Linux than I want to.

Stephen, its a breath of fresh air.  _You_ own both the machine and what 
gets loaded into it, not some faceless jerk in Redmond that has only one 
quest, to reach into your pocket for every last penny his hand can find.

If you can't fix it, you don't own it.  It really is that simple.

> It took four burning of CDs to find one Linux version that actually
> worked like Partition Magic which I purchased twice before MS outlawed
> it.

GParted makes Partition Magic jealous.  And its free for the cost of the 
download time and the cd you burn it to. $1 a copy at its highest.

How the hell can M$ outlaw your dropping a bootable CD with GParted into 
its drive and turning on the power switch?  The only way is for next years 
motherboards with the IETF or whatever its called, where the file being 
loaded MUST be signed by a security key from M$, and the key passes the 
check, will it allow the load to proceed.  M$ Calls it security, but what 
it really is is yet another attempt to lock linux out of a market that M$ 
mistakenly thinks is supposed to be 100% theirs.

In the server business that runs the internet, 90% of the banks and wall 
st., linux has risen 70% or more of the market in the last 10 years, 
growing annually at 10% or so as old IIS machines are replaced with bigger 
& faster iron, all running linux, and 99% of the so-called super computers 
on the planet are running linux, with it being 100% of the top 100 or so.

As far as this restricted boot thing goes, the FSF has purchased a key, so 
linux shouldn't have a problem with it when the time comes that these new 
broken by design motherboards start coming through the supply channels in 
the next 6 months or so.  OTOH, the motherboard makers aren't dummy's, and 
likely will have quite a few boards that don't include that.  Particularly 
the big iron boards that the better web sites on the net use.

> The software used in the NAS I have downloaded but I cannot look at it
> because the Linux programmers have prevented Windows programmers looking
> at it by naming the files with a special character that prevents
> unzipping (Or whatever) on Windows.

Put "quotes around the filename".  But thats backwards and ONLY applies to 
the linux shell, bash, when looking at a windows system with spaces in the 
filename.

We do not, and never have used any ascii character that a windows machine 
cannot display or otherwise use.  If that is what your are seeing, then its 
windows relieving itself in the Cherrio's, not linux.
 
> Yes, Linux is a swear work in this house.
> 
> If a Linux programmer detects Windows running it will erase the HDD, or
> so I am told that there is a CD out there that will do so. *eg*

Only IF _you_ give it permission Stephen.

> SHF

Cheers, Gene
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