William Robb wrote: > From: "Mat Maessen"
>> On 6/24/08, Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> can't offer any advice on partitioning and formatting the thing. You >>> probably should go ahead and figure out where in the directory hierarchy >>> you want to mount the thing, though. >> The OS figures that out for you. It gets mounted as /Volumes/<volume >> name> and shows up as an available drive in the Finder. > > I think it's neat that all you have to do is plug the thing in, and viola!! > One of the things > I've never figured out is why Windows doesn't do it automatically, or at > least autolaunch the > new drive wizard thingie. I mean, why else would you put a new drive into a > computer? It wants to give you more options rather than making thing easier up front. Don't get me wrong, I'm about as far from a Microsoft apologist as you're going to find, but I believe that's the big difference. Personally, it would p*** me the f*** off that it forced me to mount it under the name and location that the OS decided was best for me, even if it was. It would still p*** me off. :-) -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
