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The current issue of Budget Travel Magazine contains a brief article about editing travel photos. The article features the GIMP and Snapmania. http://www.budgettravel.com/bt-dyn/content...8022903634.html While I was initially pleased about the press coverage, I was disappointed by some misstatements/misperceptions in the article. I emailed the author (justin.bergman@budgettravel.com) - pointing out that: 1) the GIMP is NOT a "web-based" application; and 2) the GIMP is NOT ""a free, scaled-down version of Adobe Photoshop." and, I offered the following thoughts: "Comparing Snapmania and the GIMP is just like comparing flickr and Photoshop would be - apples and oranges. The intent of services like flickr and Snapmania is to provide photo sharing and printing services, while Photoshop and the GIMP are hardcore editors. Perhaps a better service to your readers would be a feature comparison of the different photo-editing options available to the consumer. Maybe a cost/benefit analysis of the simpler web based services like flickr (free) and snapmania (subscription), or the more powerful (complex) stand-alone editors like Photoshop ($$$) and the GIMP (free). After all, it is Budget Travel - how does the free software stack up to the stuff you pay money for?" What do you all think?

I had posted here (https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=43275) a question about a seemingly similar problem. My system recognized that a usb device was connected - but the external drive was not showing up as "sda" or anything else in diskdrake. (I wanted to reformat to ext3) The drive was a SimpleTech 250gb usb 2.0. It came formatted as NTFS. It also had "one touch backup software" preinstalled on the drive. Scarecrow was kind enough to respond to my inquiry, but seemed to be answering a question other than the one I asked. Perhaps I did not phrase my question as clearly as I could have.... After a closer examination of the scant instructions included with the drive I noticed that in order to prep the drive for use with a Mac (reformat to HFS+), you would have to remove the backup software from the drive, format as desired, and then move the software back to the external drive. This leads me to suspect that the presence of the backup software was somehow preventing my linux system from accessing the drive. I wonder if I had connected the drive to a Mac or Windows machine and removed the backup software.... would my linux box have recognized it? By the time I came up with this idea I had already arranged to sell the drive to a friend who uses windows - I then bought a drive and and external case, put it together and formatted it, and life is good. by the by, I had previously used a different SimpleTech external drive on my system with no problems - but that drive had no backup software preinstalled. (It was a 60gb bus-powered drive) I hope this helps.

I edited the hal ruleset as you described in the above referenced topic. (/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-ntfs-policy.fdi) restarted hal. No difference. No harddrive. dmesg | grep usb returns the following: usb 3-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage usb-storage: device found at 3 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning usb-storage: device scan complete and then: # diskdrake cannot get info for device (0:0:0:0) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/detect_devices.pm line 204. cannot get info for device (0:0:0:0) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/detect_devices.pm line 204. cannot get info for device (0:0:0:0) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/detect_devices.pm line 204. cannot get info for device (0:0:0:0) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/detect_devices.pm line 204. cannot get info for device (0:0:0:0) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/detect_devices.pm line 204.

Thanks for the reply! hal is running. ntfs-3g is installed. I was not so much concerned with mounting it as an NTFS volume, because I would have immediately reformatted it in diskdrake had it been listed there at all. Wouldn't being recognized in diskdrake precede any mounting issues? (or perhaps I don't understand that issue completely) What lies between being recognized by harddrake - and the drive being seen as hda.. sda.. whatever in diskdrake? I don't want/need r/w access to the external drive as ntfs, I would probably split it between HFS+ and ext3, as there is a linux laptop and a powerbook here.

I bought an external HD. SimpleTech 250gb, usb 2.0 - it came formatted as NTFS. I expected to plug it in, reformat it with diskdrake, and away we go... however, it shows up in harddrake as a usb mass storage device, but is not seen at all in diskdrake. I did previously do this successfully with a 60gb external on this system - it was recognized, and no prob's in diskdrake. I'm running Mandriva 2007.1 on an HP laptop. Any thoughts?