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As you might already know, thanks to NTFS-3g, it’s already possible to write into NTFS partitions (they used to be read-only partitions). Until now, the easiest (and safest) way to exchange data with Windows (for those of us who have a dual boot system) was using a FAT partition for read-write exchange.

Following one (among the many) tutorials I’ve seen, it’s rather easy to mount NTFS windows partitions and read & write on them with no problem at all.

However, I have an external USB 500Gb hard drive I’d like to access both from Linux and Windows. So I formatted it to NTFS to read and write lot of info on it (mostly multimedia). On Windows I had no problem (NTFS is windows native). But in Linux (Kubuntu), by default, the drive was mounted using the old (read-only) NTFS driver.

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Today they’re holding the vintage (8 bit) computers party MadriSX at Madrid which, unfortunately, I couldn’t attend. I will next year.

Speccy ZX portal guys has released a nice T-shirt on the occasion of the ZX Spectrum release 25th anniversary. These T-shirts were supposed to be sold on the event, but for those (like me) who couldn’t go, they sent them by mail. Mine arrived yesterday, just before the event