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Thread ID: 79167	2007-05-10 10:10:00	USB Stick is FAT, PC is NTFS	Strommer (42)	Press F1

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548843	2007-05-11 01:34:00	:thumbs: PB Technologies sent me this email: :) Re: USB FLASH DRIVE Hi Steve, This is Alex from PB Technologies Ltd. Regarding your previous mail, you can send the items back to us and we will give you refund, credit or exchange instead. Our address: 4 Station Rd, Penrose, Auckland., Attention: Alex	Strommer (42)
548844	2007-05-11 04:16:00	. . . My Kodak digital Camera saves on SD cards and my drive manager says they are all FAT32 . . . . that and plain ol' vanilla FAT are all that the drop down allow in the format choices . Since the camera saves in JPEGS is there any gain in formatting an SD in NTFS for the sake of speed or space used? There would be an immediate loss . The camera would not be able to write to the card . Digital cameras don't run Windows OSs . They don't have OSs at all, as yet . They have code which can read and write files to a FAT file system on a card . That's easy code . It'sa doddle . NTFS is not as simple . I doubt if anyone can measure any repeatable difference in transfer speeds between these memory devices and machines running Windows OSs which can be attributed to a change between FAT and NTFS . However, there may be a minor ease-of-use difference between FAT and NTFS . I know FAT has a limited number of files allowed in the top level . People are hitting this problem now big memory sticks are becoming cheaper . It's easily got around: create a subdirectory and put the files in that . Cameras and MP3 devices do that . I don't know whether NTFS has the restriction . . . but I'd still stick to FAT . I just thought I'd mention this here to remind people about the problem and the fix . ;) I know which OS I'd prefer to try to recover files from after problems have occured . :D	Graham L (2)
548845	2007-05-11 09:05:00	Digital cameras don't run Windows OSs . They don't have OSs at all, as yet . Canon digicams have used the following "ROM-DOS",an MS-DOS compatible operating system engineered specifically for embedded developers . "VxWorks" a Unix-like real-time operating system generally used in embedded systems . There are several groups of "hackers" modifying the original feature sets of various Canon models	PaulD (232)
548846	2007-05-12 04:49:00	In other words, they use a menu driven programme loader with filesystem functions. I've yet to see a camera playing WoW, or displaying Google Earth. Cameras don't use general purpose OSs. Yet. Doubtless the extra "functionality" will be added in time. Just as "phones" have nearly lost the function of a simple telephone, I expect cameras which won't take pictures to come. But they'll have lots of "functions". :( I'd still stick to FAT.	Graham L (2)
548847	2007-05-12 21:02:00	It's harder than I thought to pin down a pedant :) I think that like MS you are now blurring the line between OS and Applications. You can't play WoW yet, but you can play Tetris on the ROM-DOS Canons and Reversi or Sokokan on the cameras using VxWorks.	PaulD (232)
548848	2007-05-13 02:53:00	Define "pin". Define "down". Define "the", nonrecursively. :thumbs:	Graham L (2)
548849	2007-05-13 21:54:00	pin; verb, lit . to secure via impaling device [see §'s I & IIV inclusive] to immobilize for viewing or storage, ie: "I pin the tail on the donkey" or "I pinned my fiancee at the prom!" down; a directional command, imperative in nature, ie: "Get down, ya mutt!", or "Get your drunken Uncle Charley down off the piano", or "Down!" used exclusively inferring the object of the command and the predicate nominative . the; an article of little or no importance; usually inserted as a connective or word-whisper in the void and dull moments of thought in a speech or sentence structure for making a document or tirade longer to fill time or space . ie; "I deres'd my user" . (notice there is no "the" in that sentence, proving the uselessness of that word in da first place) nonrecursively; In mathematics and computer science, recursion is a particular way of specifying (or constructing) a class of objects (or an object from a certain class) with the help of a reference to other objects of the class: a recursive definition defines objects in terms of the already defined objects of the class . . . therefor "non" as a prefix indicates the exact opposite of the foregoing .	SurferJoe46 (51)
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