Florian Hengartner
Vor einiger Zeit hatte ich das "Google Map Of" Script für das OSX Address Book entdeckt. (Unterdessen gibts das mächtigere "Google Map Plugin".)
Von dem "Google Map Of" Script hatte ich mir eine Kopie angefertigt die local.ch verwendet. Dieses habe ich jetzt noch ein wenig verfeinert und online gestellt unter "Local.ch Address Book Plugin". Long live applescript ;-)
Recently I bought a new external harddrive. I asked myself is there a good reason today to leave it formated with fat32 (sometimes even in fat16!). Many of todays filesystems have superior features, but is there also a filesystem with the cross platform compatibility of FAT?
My requirements for the filesystem
- good compatibility with my main operating system: mac os x
- high filesize limits
- unix filesystem permissions
- journaling if possible
- cross-platform:
- linux
- mac os x
- windows
It explores the positives and negatives of the different filesystems. It's main focus is on a filesystem that is accessable by windows and linux.
The idea of two partitions
My personal focus is on data that is read&writable with linux and mac os x and at least readable under windows.
I begun conducting research on this filesystem question. I discovered the idea of two partitions on a jumpdrive.
A small partition formatted with fat32 which is readily mountable in windows and everywhere. The second,larger and main partition is formatted with the more "special" filesystem.
On the small partition I place a driver or other applications that allow access to the more specially formatted partition. Furthermore if you can't or don't want to install the driver you can store some files directly on the FAT partition.
First run with EXT3
Ext3 was my main filesystem with linux, has unix permissions, journaling and a driver for windows and osx. It covers all my requirements (at least I thought so). No journaling with windows, but I won't use it often with windows so I could live with that. Thus I decided to take this way.
As I didn't have my macbook pro back then I couldn't test the filesystem with osx. As the future showed the osx driver is not stable. The first and only time I had kernel crashes was while using this driver. Alternatively I tried to use the fuse ext2 driver with macfuse - no success. Time to find a new filesystem.
Success with HFS+
My next try with hfs+ - the standard os x filesystem - was successful.
It mounts without manual work in my Ubuntu GNU/Linux box and has limited support for windows.
A fileexplorer (readonly) for Windows XP is HFSExplorer.
For more drivers and information see the wikipedia article for HFS+.
HFS+ is mounted readonly, to enable the write support within linux I had to disable the journal of the HFS+ partition, see http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_hfsplus. It's sad I have to disabe the journal, but at least I get write support if I need it. Don't forget to reenable the journal afterwards ;-)
It's about time to update my blog, cause I'm back in switzerland since moren than one week!
My flight from Sydney left late what messed up the whole flight plan
and the connecting flight in Singapur was already gone. In the end i
flew over Frankfurt instead of Paris and luckily arrived no later than
originaly planed, hurray :)
I enjoyed my last station - Sydney - very much. It's a magnificient, living city with lots to see & do. Unfortunately I couldn't stay longer.
Now I'm enjoying the conveniences of settledness. No 8hrs drive a
day, my own bed and i don't have to live out of my suitcase - ah :)
Some of the other things I missed:
- good cheese
- real bread
- good pizza (without ketchup but with real tomato puree)
- long showers
Overall it was a very good, enjoyable experience and I could handle all glitches and most was running smoothly anyway.
And to all you new people I've met - have a good time and I hope I see the one or the other again some day.
the end
I crossed half of australia since I left Cairns.
From Cairns I started travelling together with my mate Serge who made
it at the last minute on our plane to Darwin. "Just in time" as he says.
From darwin we went to the kakadu national park. On our croc boat cruise we even saw a croc eating another animal which looked very spectacular.
Later we drove from darwin to alice spring in a rather uncomfortable bus. On the journey we bathed in hot springs, visited the devils marbles (big round rocks laying around in the middle of nowhere). Now we've experienced "the real outback" which mainly consists of nothing. Big landscapes of dry gras, small bushes, cattle stations as huge as switzerland, small villages with a population changing from 2,3 people (wetseasen, summer) and around 12 in the dryseason (winter).
So now we are in Alice Springs and continue tomorrow to Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kings Canyon, etc.
During day the temperature is around 20 degrees celcius but during the night it falls down to 0! Brr! But nevertheless our mood is good :)
Cheers
