Re: [DNG] history

2020-08-07 Thread Dimitris via Dng
On 8/7/20 12:36 AM, marc wrote: > People being easily identified and > tracked in real life is something that strengthens authoritarian regimes > (whether fascist or communist) as well coercive corporate interests. there were no communist authoritarian regimes in history.. communist by name

[DNG] How to mount NTFS

2020-08-07 Thread Haines Brown
Cron automatiically backs up some partitions on my HD by means of a script. Not sure of the size of thse backupos, but perhaps 300 Mb. I have been doing the backups to an external WD USB drive, and they took around 3 hours. However, I became nervous about the condition of the drive which is

Re: [DNG] history

2020-08-07 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 09:53:51AM +0300, Dimitris via Dng wrote: > On 8/7/20 12:36 AM, marc wrote: > > People being easily identified and > > tracked in real life is something that strengthens authoritarian regimes > > (whether fascist or communist) as well coercive corporate interests. > >

Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS

2020-08-07 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 07/08/2020 17:19, Haines Brown wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 04:57:18PM +0100, Rowland penny via Dng wrote: It is extremely slow, but I am unsure just how slow, but 3-4 times slower sounds about right. Wow! If the drive is never plugged into a Windows machine, then there is no point

Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS

2020-08-07 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 07/08/2020 15:47, Haines Brown wrote: Cron automatiically backs up some partitions on my HD by means of a script. Not sure of the size of thse backupos, but perhaps 300 Mb. I have been doing the backups to an external WD USB drive, and they took around 3 hours. However, I became nervous

Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS

2020-08-07 Thread Rowland penny via Dng
On 07/08/2020 16:46, Haines Brown wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 03:58:40PM +0100, Rowland penny via Dng wrote: Do you use the USB drive on Windows, if not, just reformat it to ext4, ntfs-3g is a FUSE system, it isn't a fast as you would like. Thanks Roland. I left the drive NTFS because I

Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS

2020-08-07 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 04:57:18PM +0100, Rowland penny via Dng wrote: > It is extremely slow, but I am unsure just how slow, but 3-4 times slower > sounds about right. Wow! > If the drive is never plugged into a Windows machine, then there is no point > in it being formatted as NTFS. I do

Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS

2020-08-07 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 03:58:40PM +0100, Rowland penny via Dng wrote: > Do you use the USB drive on Windows, if not, just reformat it to ext4, > ntfs-3g is a FUSE system, it isn't a fast as you would like. Thanks Roland. I left the drive NTFS because I wanted easy access to the drive for folks

Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS

2020-08-07 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 06:34:04PM +0100, g4sra wrote: > Check your logs for USB Bus resets, any device on the USB bus can > cause these which will add seconds for every occurrence (a USB TV > stick can make a backup crawl). Nothing in logs. But I don't unserstand this DBus syslog message

Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS

2020-08-07 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 04:01:09PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Nothing in logs. But I don't unserstand this DBus syslog message that > comes up every second or so: > > Aug 7 09:29:26 engels brltty[720]: DBus error: send message: > org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name

Re: [DNG] history

2020-08-07 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting d...@d404.nl (d...@d404.nl): > It is indeed off topic so i will keep it short: show me a philosophy of > life or religion which has not been abused by a power hungry > totalitarian dictator or political system. o Taoism o Pastafarianism o Church of the Subgenius (See, now I'm

Re: [DNG] history

2020-08-07 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2020-08-07 at 09:53 +0300, Dimitris via Dng wrote: > On 8/7/20 12:36 AM, marc wrote: > > People being easily identified and > > tracked in real life is something that strengthens authoritarian > > regimes > > (whether fascist or communist) as well coercive corporate > > interests. > >

Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS

2020-08-07 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
I just mounted up an NTFS mount on my Ascii desktop.  It loaded up fairly quickly.  Any other operation such as opening a folder with a lot of entries took a very long time.  This is on a Seagate Baracuda 1TB plugged into a generic drive dock and connected by USB 3.0. I would say that the

Re: [DNG] history

2020-08-07 Thread d...@d404.nl
On 07-08-2020 22:11, John Morris wrote: > On Fri, 2020-08-07 at 09:53 +0300, Dimitris via Dng wrote: >> On 8/7/20 12:36 AM, marc wrote: >>> People being easily identified and >>> tracked in real life is something that strengthens authoritarian >>> regimes >>> (whether fascist or communist) as

[DNG] Backups for Posterity Re: How to mount NTFS

2020-08-07 Thread terryc
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 12:19:19 -0400 Haines Brown wrote: > > If the drive is never plugged into a Windows machine, then there is > > no point in it being formatted as NTFS. > > I do not have clients. I'm well past life expectancy, and so I need > to know that my grandchildren can simply plug

Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS

2020-08-07 Thread Harald Arnesen via Dng
Haines Brown [07.08.2020 18:19]: > Yes, for sure. If you are right about the speed difference between > NTFS and ext4, then is there another FS that can be accessed by a > Windows machine that is not much slower than ext4? fat32. Or if you run a recent kernel on your Linux machine (Devuan 5.4

Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS

2020-08-07 Thread Joel Roth via Dng
Haines Brown wrote: > Cron automatiically backs up some partitions on my HD by means of a > script. Not sure of the size of thse backupos, but perhaps 300 Mb. > > I have been doing the backups to an external WD USB drive, and they > took around 3 hours. However, I became nervous about the

Re: [DNG] history

2020-08-07 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2020-08-07 at 22:21 +0200, d...@d404.nl wrote: > > It is indeed off topic so i will keep it short: show me a philosophy > of > life or religion which has not been abused by a power hungry > totalitarian dictator or political system. Been at it for a Century now, find ONE attempt you