From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 10 16:55:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C608516A4DE for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:55:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob@tania.servebbs.org) Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.1.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C3543D4C for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:55:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob@tania.servebbs.org) Received: from mailspool2.panix.com (mailspool2.panix.com [166.84.1.79]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DE2F9DA29; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:55:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tania.servebbs.org (pool-71-247-32-136.nycmny.east.verizon.net [71.247.32.136]) by mailspool2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A82ADADA9C7; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:55:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob Richards Organization: TamaraB To: Micah Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:55:22 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200608071755.57239.bob@tania.servebbs.org> <200608092346.47577.bob@tania.servebbs.org> <44DABB00.3070304@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <44DABB00.3070304@ywave.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart55021804.4fKVCis0o0"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200608101255.33049.bob@tania.servebbs.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mount Point permissions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:55:54 -0000 --nextPart55021804.4fKVCis0o0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 10 August 2006 00:50, Micah wrote: > One possible workaround is to use msdosfs instead of ufs. Seems to work > fine for my regular user account. But I agree that floppy support sucks. > Try accidentally mounting a write-protected floppy as rw. You get a > flood of errors that cannot be cleared without a reboot. > Micah: If we are intent to ween people off Micro$h|t, we have to take care of the "little things". It's hard to sell an alternative, when that alternative ba= rfs on a simple thing like Floppy-Use.=20 =20 The "big" stuff is in place already; M$ cpmpatibilitynin WP, Spread-sheets,= =20 mail... etc. is already far better than M$. It is the small crap, liike=20 =46loppy drive use, which makes the "conversion" a problem! =20 The open-source community have to get their act together, and realize that main-stream users will gladly switch to FreeBsd/Linux when and ONLY when all the basics are working. =20 =46or a geek, these "problems" are trivial; for a WindowZ idiot, these thji= ngs are what kills a sale, and maintains Wind0WZ dominance in user-space. =20 Bob =20 --nextPart55021804.4fKVCis0o0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBE22UEAexE5bK/mHkRAgumAJ9LmoE0wUQIeY7wwJ943wnBuPGAAgCcDclZ gakVNTNMrgJ6l9i3KrFGpjo= =VLfh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart55021804.4fKVCis0o0--