Re: Irfanview question

"ASAAR" <caught@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:06:13 -0500, Cathy wrote:
>
> > I found out yesterday that as of Dec. 15, my ISP, one of the largest
> > ISP's and TV cable companies in Canada will be dropping Usenet on
Dec.
> > 15. I didn't get notified of this yet, but a local newsgroup posted
the
> > news. According to my ISP, so many people have Blogs and Instant
> > Messenger and other things now, that Usenet is not as popular as it
once
> > was. I find that hard to believe. Its just some trumped up excuse to
get
> > rid of Usenet for their own agenda. They did say there is always
google
> > (which I don't like as it is so cluttered looking). I liked doing
> > newsgroups in OE when I do my mail. Pretty crappy way to treat their
> > customers.
>
> I'd rather give up on usenet than use google groups. I've heard
> many people praise http://www.news.individual.net/ which is a free
> news server. I've never used it, and believe that it's only for
> text newsgroups, but then that shouldn't be a problem for newsgroups
> such as this. I found this in a message saved last March, but I
> know nothing about aioe.org, nor whether it still exists.

Are you talking to me ASAAR? I never mentioned anything about aioe.org.
I've used google groups before, but I don't like that split screen and
cluttered look they have. It was set up much better when it was Deja
News years ago before google took it over..

> > My next effort will be to try using an open public NNTP server, such
as
> > aioe.org. Seems to work okay from the dial-up connection to my ISP,
so I
> > can't envision any reason why it won't work from a WiFi connection,
> > although I haven't yet given it a real-world test.
> >
> > aioe.org carries 27,000 NGs, which covers everything I need.

That paragraph above is not mine. Were you trying to kill two birds with
one stone? :)

> If I were you, I'd try setting up a newsreader to test
> news.individual.net, as it's supposed to be dependable and have good
> message completion. You might find some other free "public" news
> servers if you search for them using Google.

I'll check news.individual.net.

> > I finally got Read only and the error message I was getting when
trying
> > to edit jpgs solved. I uninstalled and reinstalled Irfanview 3.80
(I
> > wanted to use that version as that was the version I was having
trouble
> > with) -When I reinstalled Irfanview, I didn't get that error that I
did
> > before about "unable to open file to write" or something similar.
Most
> > jpgs have Archive under Attributes, but a few still have Read only.
> > Under what circumstances should jpgs have "Read only" and "archive".
>
> Those status bits are independent. Files should in general always
> have the Archive bit set. That bit is normally only changed by
> backup programs. It's used to identify files that probably need to
> be backed up, or "archived". It's generally "unset" for full
> backups, and the backup programs can then allow you to do a much
> quicker backup by only backing up files which would have that bit
> set. These would be new files, or files that had been edited since
> the last full backup. The ReadOnly bit of JPG files is generally
> not set. The most common cause for files (of any type) to have the
> R/O bit set is if they were copied from a source where they already
> had those bits set, such as from a CD or DVD. There are several
> other possibilities, but as I use none of them, they're just
> guesses. If you don't copy files directly from a card reader, but
> use a camera manufacturer's software to retrieve photos, it may
> "protect" the original copies by setting the R/O bit. Files
> transferred directly from the camera's USB port to the computer
> might have R/O bits set, depending on the design of the camera or
> its driver software.

Thanks for the explanation.
I copy files from a card reader not from the camera. But that brings me
to another question. When I first got the camera I transferred files
from the USB port to the computer. That was internal memory before I got
a memory card. But now I use a memory card reader, and copy the files to
the computer from it. But if I didn't have a memory card reader, how
would I transfer files from the memory card to the computer? If I did it
by leaving the memory card in my camera and did USB to computer, how
would the computer know if it was files to be transferred from the
memory card or from the internal memory ?

Cathy


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