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21 Jul 2025 06:04:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Daily WTF [again]  
From: Darren New
Date: 12 Feb 2008 15:00:17
Message: <47b1fad1$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> hi, I can't help but notice your timezone is wrong.  This is 2008.  We 
> can write to NTFS partitions from LiveCDs,

Really? Which distro is that? It's not in the latest from SuSE 10.2, I 
notice.

 > let alone simple FAT which
> BTW is the standard format in thumbdrives, which work just fine as well.

I didn't say it didn't work. I said it tells me it's "alpha". Now, given 
that it's on a piece of software distributed worldwide, methinks the 
author of that message doesn't know what "ALPHA" means.

> Perhaps it's time to test a new Linux distribution?  From the 2000's?

Put a FAT32 drive in your /etc/fstab and look at the messages during 
boot. Maybe yours doesn't have that any more, but mine does.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     On what day did God create the body thetans?


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