User talk:Novelist

Welcome from EWS23

Hello Novelist! My name is Eric, and it is my pleasure to be the first to welcome you to Wikipedia! I hope you will decide to stay a long time and help us continue to make this one of the greatest sites on the world wide web. Here are a few useful links for you to explore:

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EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 04:14, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please Use the Preview Button

Please start using preview before saving your changes (just take a look at the history pages for the number of your edits compared to everyone else's). Xaje 09:28, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

contested pages

when a page is contested, please do not delete the template that says it is. THank You

you can leave me a message at my talk page.

WmCliff 05:39, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Enhanced mini USB

I think that this article would be better merged into the main USB article; you may want to add a paragraph on this topic to that article. Perel 06:35, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Your recent edits

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your UDF changes today

Would you please support the utf-8 problem for OS X with a reference where you have this information from? Same for the limited UDF support in Vista. I've undone them for now as, at least for the OS X part, I cannot generally agree with your statement. Tempel (talk) 18:55, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You likely have not had mac utf problem because you never had a UDF compliant DVD in your hand. Apple is likely not forthcoming about the peculiar utf-mac encoding that can cause issues elsewhere, but obviously they are not compatible reading someone else's DVD which I tried today (that makes it an assertive statement) I have earlier tested the compatibility of Windows Vista, and it's not there. These guys get away with it because there has not been a standard-producing software around. When I write a DVD on Linux, I get only seven errors. With Windows or Mac you get about 50. Apple sucks as much as Microsoft, the world just does not know yet.

Novelist (talk) 19:20, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(No need to post back on my page - I watch your page, so I'll see your comments here.)

I am quite experienced with UDF and OS X. I also know that there were bugs in Apple's general Unicode conversion code that could cause problems. Your comment, however, was too general. Every software has problems and bugs, no need to ponder on that. In general, Apple's UDF does handle non-ASCII names well. Besides, it was not written by Apple but is open-source BSD code, from which Linux also takes its share.

I would, however, like to investigate this problem of yours as I'm also writing UDF handling software.

Can you get me a copy of the disc sector(s) of the affected UDF disk? I assume you know how to copy blocks to a file in Linux? Mail the file to me (tempelmann % gmail com) and then delete this sentence here again to save me from more spam, please :)

I also have software that runs in Linux to copy the dvd blocks, or even let me have a look at your disk over the network (it's called rohPod, google for it and you'll see that I also work with Linux occasionally).

I'd also like to investigate the Vista problem. What did you do exactly for those tests, i.e. to which media did you write the UDF volumes, and which tools or commands did you use to specify the UDF revision? Tempel (talk) 19:31, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

UDF 1.50 write-once on OS X?

Hey again. Where do you get this idea from? what do you mean by write-once? Read never?? Please use the proper terms used in the article. E.g, do you mean it can write to CD-R using the VAT flavor? If you think that's the case you're mistaken. All it can do is to create a plain UDF 1.xx volume. However, that does not belong into this list as I had just made clear that "write" support means a writing file system, while the thing you talk about in 10.4 is called pre-mastering. That's what many CD writing tools can do, but this is not of interest to this list of operating support. Okay? Tempel (talk) 21:11, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've given this some more thought and now added a new "create" term to avoid the conflict with the different "write" meaning. This way, I added back your info about the UDF 1.50 creation on Tiger.

But now I have another question: It seems to me that all the Linux support also means creation of UDF volumes, not random-write support thru the file system, correct? In that case, the "write" support for Linux should also be changed to use the "create" wording to clarify this. Would you please comment on this, as I have currently no Linux system for testing at hand. Thanks, Tempel (talk) 22:04, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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