RE: [NF] Reading a Floppy from Mac 1985-1988

2016-03-31 Thread Charles Hart Enzer, M.D.
Thank you, Michael. Shai / שי Charles Hart Enzer, M.D., FAACAP Volunteer Associate Professor of Psychiatry University of Cincinnati Medical Center WebSite:http://TinyURL.com/EnzerMD On Mar 31, 2016 2:42 PM, "Michael Glassman" wrote: > Assuming you have a Windows

Re: [NF] Reading a Floppy from Mac 1985-1988

2016-03-31 Thread Charles Hart Enzer, M.D.
Thank you, Jim. Shai / שי Charles Hart Enzer, M.D., FAACAP Volunteer Associate Professor of Psychiatry University of Cincinnati Medical Center WebSite:http://TinyURL.com/EnzerMD On Mar 31, 2016 2:41 PM, "Jim Brotz" wrote: > You will probably be able to read it on a modern

Re: [NF] Reading a Floppy from Mac 1985-1988

2016-03-31 Thread Charles Hart Enzer, M.D.
Thank you, Alan. Shai / שי Charles Hart Enzer, M.D., FAACAP Volunteer Associate Professor of Psychiatry University of Cincinnati Medical Center WebSite:http://TinyURL.com/EnzerMD On Mar 31, 2016 2:39 PM, "Alan Bourke" wrote: > > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, at 07:11 PM,

Re: [NF] Reading a Floppy from Mac 1985-1988

2016-03-31 Thread Charles Hart Enzer, M.D.
I like it, Ted. Shai / שי Charles Hart Enzer, M.D., FAACAP Volunteer Associate Professor of Psychiatryli University of Cincinnati Medical Center WebSite:http://TinyURL.com/EnzerMD On Mar 31, 2016 2:34 PM, "Ted Roche" wrote: > Got a floppy drive on a Windows computer? This

Re: [NF] Reading a Floppy from Mac 1985-1988

2016-03-31 Thread Charles Hart Enzer, M.D.
Thank you, Ted. Shai / שי Charles Hart Enzer, M.D., FAACAP Volunteer Associate Professor of Psychiatry University of Cincinnati Medical Center WebSite:http://TinyURL.com/EnzerMD On Mar 31, 2016 2:23 PM, "Ted Roche" wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Charles Hart

RE: [NF] Reading a Floppy from Mac 1985-1988

2016-03-31 Thread Michael Glassman
Assuming you have a Windows computer with a floppy drive, you might try MacOpener (which has been discontinued by DataViz but is still available on various download sites) or MacDrive (http://www.mediafour.com/software/macdrive/). Look for free or trial versions that might be able to tell you

Re: [NF] Reading a Floppy from Mac 1985-1988

2016-03-31 Thread Jim Brotz
You will probably be able to read it on a modern Mac, if you can hook up a standalone floppy drive. Imation made a standalone floppy drive, model D353FUE, which has a USB connector so it will fit modern Macs. On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > Got a floppy

Re: [NF] Reading a Floppy from Mac 1985-1988

2016-03-31 Thread Alan Bourke
On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, at 07:11 PM, Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. wrote: > What are the steps to read on a PC a 3.5 Floppy written on a Boxed Mac > about 1985-1988? It appears to depend on whether the Mac disk is HD (1.44MB) or DD (400KB/800KB). If it's HD then there are various solutions like

Re: [NF] Reading a Floppy from Mac 1985-1988

2016-03-31 Thread Ted Roche
Got a floppy drive on a Windows computer? This might be worth a try: http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/hfvexplorer#description On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. wrote: > What are the steps to read on a PC a 3.5 Floppy written on a Boxed Mac > about

Re: [NF] Reading a Floppy from Mac 1985-1988

2016-03-31 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. wrote: > What are the steps to read on a PC a 3.5 Floppy written on a Boxed Mac > about 1985-1988? > I'm assuming you don't have a circa 1985 Mac in working condition. That would be the ideal way. The chances of reading

[NF] Reading a Floppy from Mac 1985-1988

2016-03-31 Thread Charles Hart Enzer, M.D.
What are the steps to read on a PC a 3.5 Floppy written on a Boxed Mac about 1985-1988? Thank you. *Shai / שי Charles Hart Enzer, M.D., FAACAPVolunteer Associate Professor of PsychiatryUniversity of Cincinnati Medical CenterWebSite:http://TinyURL.com/EnzerMD *

Re: [NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.

2016-03-31 Thread AndyHC
On 31/03/2016 18:57, Ted Roche wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: That means bash etc I'm *quite* sure this isn't an April Fool ...

Re: [NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.

2016-03-31 Thread Paul Hill
On 31 March 2016 at 15:53, Fernando D. Bozzo wrote: >> On 31 March 2016 at 14:37, Fernando D. Bozzo wrote: >> > It's technically incredible this goal, but I'll prefer to keep using my >> > Ubuntu with Linux. >> > >> > Don't want Windows spying on all I do.

[NF] Microsoft turns over a new leaf, and announces new Embrance, Enhance & Extend policy!

2016-03-31 Thread Ted Roche
No, really. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/03/31/mobile-app-development-made-easy-with-visual-studio-and-xamarin/ I think the new management at Microsoft is making a pretty smart break from the past. Bill Gate's MS was "Information at your Fingertips" and "A PC on every desk"

[NF] Postgresql to Excel

2016-03-31 Thread Stephen Russell
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Re: [NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.

2016-03-31 Thread Alan Bourke
On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, at 04:43 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > Well, I, for one, will welcome a GitHub for Windows interface that can > use native git commands. I've helped other developers install GitHub > for Windows, and essentially you need to install the entire MSys Linux > emulator for Windows in

Re: [NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.

2016-03-31 Thread Ted Roche
Well, I, for one, will welcome a GitHub for Windows interface that can use native git commands. I've helped other developers install GitHub for Windows, and essentially you need to install the entire MSys Linux emulator for Windows in order to get ssh, key generation, and git. It's clumbsy and

Re: [NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.

2016-03-31 Thread Fernando D. Bozzo
Why? I haven't external searching features active (Amazon, etc) El 31/3/2016 16:47, "Paul Hill" escribió: > On 31 March 2016 at 14:37, Fernando D. Bozzo wrote: > > It's technically incredible this goal, but I'll prefer to keep using my > > Ubuntu

Re: [NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.

2016-03-31 Thread Alan Bourke
The next LTS release of Ubuntu has the internet searching defaulted to off, apparently. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, at 03:47 PM, Paul Hill wrote: > On 31 March 2016 at 14:37, Fernando D. Bozzo wrote: > > It's technically

Re: [NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.

2016-03-31 Thread Paul Hill
On 31 March 2016 at 14:37, Fernando D. Bozzo wrote: > It's technically incredible this goal, but I'll prefer to keep using my > Ubuntu with Linux. > > Don't want Windows spying on all I do. Then you should not be using Ubuntu! -- Paul

Re: [NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.

2016-03-31 Thread Alan Bourke
On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, at 02:47 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Fernando D. Bozzo > > That they got the proprietary MS C (or C++ or DotNet) compiler Open source and on GitHub for C# and VB.Net compiler as of VS 2015. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke

RE: [NF] SSD Drives

2016-03-31 Thread Kurt Wendt
Thanks for that input Alan. Its really good to know that the tech is Much better these days. I will have to check out that link when I get a chance. Regards, Kurt Wendt Consultant Tel. +1-212-747-9100 www.GlobeTax.com -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech

RE: [NF] SSD Drives

2016-03-31 Thread Kurt Wendt
Peter - I agree. Although its been quite a few years since I had a personal computer of mine setup w/Dual Boot - it DOES makes sense to partition an SSD for dual boot. Makes a lot of sense. Regards, Kurt Wendt Consultant Tel. +1-212-747-9100 www.GlobeTax.com -Original Message- From:

Re: [NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.

2016-03-31 Thread Ted Roche
Correction, not Cygnus (a long dead and missed text editor) but Cygwin: https://cygwin.com/ Mr. Kirkland also cross-posts here: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:37

Re: [NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.

2016-03-31 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Fernando D. Bozzo wrote: > It's technically incredible this goal, but I'll prefer to keep using my > Ubuntu with Linux. > I'm not so sure. I've been running Linux console-based tools using Cygnus for 15 years now. That they got the proprietary

Re: [NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.

2016-03-31 Thread Fernando D. Bozzo
It's technically incredible this goal, but I'll prefer to keep using my Ubuntu with Linux. Don't want Windows spying on all I do. El 31/3/2016 15:04, "Alan Bourke" escribió: > That means bash etc > > I'm *quite* sure this isn't an April Fool ... > > >

Re: [NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.

2016-03-31 Thread Stephen Russell
Just saw this as well. http://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-microsoft-will-support-bash-on-windows-10/ On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > Windows.GNU may be in line? > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > >>

Re: [NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.

2016-03-31 Thread Stephen Russell
Windows.GNU may be in line? On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Alan Bourke > wrote: > > That means bash etc > > > > I'm *quite* sure this isn't an April Fool ... > > > > >

Re: [NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.

2016-03-31 Thread Stephen Russell
There were a few tweets about this from Build 2016 yesterday. On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: > That means bash etc > > I'm *quite* sure this isn't an April Fool ... > > >

Re: [NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.

2016-03-31 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: > That means bash etc > > I'm *quite* sure this isn't an April Fool ... > >

[NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.

2016-03-31 Thread Alan Bourke
That means bash etc I'm *quite* sure this isn't an April Fool ... https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/30/ubuntu-on-windows-the-ubuntu-userspace-for-windows-developers/?utm_source=ubunteu_medium=url_shortner_term=RBOWP7_campaign=shortner -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

Re: [NF] SSD Drives

2016-03-31 Thread Man-wai Chang
Of course you can create partitions in a SSD, just like regular hard disks. Just remember to turn off scheduled defrag for the SSD. On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:41 AM, John Weller wrote: > Is it possible to partition an SSD drive? -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision.

Re: [NF] SSD Drives

2016-03-31 Thread Man-wai Chang
It's called write cycles, and there is a max value when the SSD's performance starts to degrade. Disk reads are not problems. On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Kurt @ VR-FX wrote: > But I do remember comments in past on how too much R/W's can cause > degradation that occurs

Re: [NF] SSD Drives

2016-03-31 Thread Peter Cushing
On 31/03/2016 11:25, John Weller wrote: Hi Kurt, Since I have had an iPad I've become very frustrated with the time it takes my PC to boot so I am going to fit an SSD to hold the OS. I am looking at a 250Gb drive but then had the thought that if I bought a 350Gb drive I could partition it and

RE: [NF] SSD Drives

2016-03-31 Thread John Weller
Hi Kurt, Since I have had an iPad I've become very frustrated with the time it takes my PC to boot so I am going to fit an SSD to hold the OS. I am looking at a 250Gb drive but then had the thought that if I bought a 350Gb drive I could partition it and put the OS in one partition and the most

Re: [NF] SSD Drives

2016-03-31 Thread Alan Bourke
On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, at 01:50 AM, Kurt @ VR-FX wrote: > Damn bad WAG's & Q's on my part! > But I do remember comments in past on how too much R/W's can cause > degradation that occurs faster than regular HD's... That was certainly the case when they first appeared but is now far less of an

Re: [NF] SSD Drives

2016-03-31 Thread John Weller
Thanks Ted, that's just what I needed. John John Weller 01380 723235 079763 93631 Sent from my iPad > On 31 Mar 2016, at 00:49, Ted Roche wrote: > > Is there any point in partitioning an SSD? Yes. > > http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/280992-32-point-partitioning > > Is