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Pathos

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Re: FAT patent back.
« Reply #15 on: 17 January 2006, 12:21 »
I know...

not even sony would
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Re: FAT patent back.
« Reply #16 on: 27 January 2006, 03:47 »
Evil story - I was using my digital camera the other night, and I was curious, so I took a look around my 16MB Compact Flash card.  I noticed that it was formatted FAT.  So I was going to format it to something else.  I would have preferred UCF or something, but my Mac wouldn't write a UCF filesystem.  So I went ahead and formatted my Flash card as HFS+.

Wouldn't ya know it - next time I turned my camera (a Nikon Coolpix 4300) on, it complained that the memory card had not been formatted, and could not store any pictures until it had been formatted.  And now we are back to FAT again.

What Operating System does your digital camera run?  This is the kind of question nobody asks, but perhaps somebody should.  Nikon's camera navigation system seems to be "running" Windows...
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Re: FAT patent back.
« Reply #17 on: 27 January 2006, 03:58 »
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uhhh .. I don't see any way of that happening ... unless Mac grows some balls or Linux's marketshare skyrockets exponentially ... the word Monopoly seems to be appropriate here ... :fu: M$


Why would Apple use ext2 in the next OSX? HFS+ is way better, has journaling, etc.
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Re: FAT patent back.
« Reply #18 on: 27 January 2006, 05:40 »
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What Operating System does your digital camera run?  This is the kind of question nobody asks, but perhaps somebody should.  Nikon's camera navigation system seems to be "running" Windows...


Dunno if it's running Windows.  It certainly is running a very light embedded OS which supports only vfat.
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Re: FAT patent back.
« Reply #19 on: 27 January 2006, 05:46 »
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Why would Apple use ext2 in the next OSX? HFS+ is way better, has journaling, etc.

they'll probably use HFS+ ... I never said they'd use ext2, ext2 is more associated with Linux than Mac ... and ext3 has journaling, etc.
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