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November 28, 2007 5:58 AM

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Good morning everyone, I hope you're ready for another exciting day of gaming news. I mean, if you were only ready for a day of boring gaming news then you're just shooting too low, and we can't have that. To that end, we should have a new Replay Couch courtesy of Breckon later on and I might have a contest in mind. Also, new Rock Band DLC came out, so if he's your thing, Ziggy Stardust awaits.

Speaking of contests, I've tried to keep them varied and such with photoshopping, writing, and more. Are there some contest types we haven't tried, that you would like to see? Or were you just totally in love with a past one? Either post something or drop your friendly neighborhood Judy McCoy a line.

Jeff "geedeck" Gondek

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dudehoyt

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November 28, 2007 6:03 AM

I need to get some files off of my Mac partition to an external HDD that is NTFS. I can't write to it so I'm trying to use Filezilla to upload to another computer then to my HDD. I must be doing something wrong because it won't connect. Any suggestions?
- Draugluin
  
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  November 28, 2007 6:07 AM
  
  if it's an intel mac I'd burn a ubuntu 7.10 disc as it includes write support for ntfs
  
  alternately I'd try using windows file sharing
  - dudehoyt
    
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    November 28, 2007 6:31 AM
    
    The problem is that the files I want to move are on my Mac partition. Therefore, I can't access it while running my XP partition.
    - Draugluin
      
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      November 28, 2007 6:33 AM
      
      ubuntu supports hfs+ as well as ntfs
    - Arsenal
      
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      November 28, 2007 6:33 AM
      
      oh, then install macdrive - http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/ it's only 5 days trial, but its awesome.
      - Draugluin
        
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        November 28, 2007 6:35 AM
        
        this might be easier overall
- MoreVespeneGas
  
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  November 28, 2007 6:09 AM
  
  what wont connect? pretty vague.
  - dudehoyt
    
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    November 28, 2007 6:30 AM
    
    It won't connect to the computer I'm using as a server. Not sure how to put in the address for the computer into filezilla to access it.
    - dudehoyt
      
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      November 28, 2007 6:33 AM
      
      IE, should it be something like \\ ip address\drive\folder ?
      - spazzium
        
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        November 28, 2007 6:51 AM
        
        I see below that you got the NTFS stuff working. But samba works pretty well on the mac. Proper format is smb:\\username:password@hostname\sharename Hopefully this works in the future, I find samba to be pretty useful.
    - MoreVespeneGas
      
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      November 28, 2007 6:36 AM
      
      ah. well you are going to need to setup a ftp server on said pc. have you done that? if so using filezilla is a snap, just enter the the ip and the un/pass you setup for the client.
- Arsenal
  
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  November 28, 2007 6:32 AM
  
  http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html seems to work ok for me
  - dudehoyt
    
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    November 28, 2007 6:36 AM
    
    I can never get this to work right. I'll give it another shot.
    - dudehoyt
      
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      November 28, 2007 6:44 AM
      
      WOOT!!!! Got this to work finally. Thanks!
      - zerog83
        
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        November 28, 2007 6:44 AM
        
        so basically you never tried it before?
    - Arsenal
      
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      November 28, 2007 6:45 AM
      
      well this is the other way round from what you described above, but yeah i have this installed in Leopard and macdrive installed in Vista on my MBP and it seems to work for me.
      
      All i had to do to get this working was download and install MacFUSE http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ and then download and install the NTFS-3G dmg. Probably safest to reboot inbetween each step but yeah it worked fine for me straight off like that.