Re: Irfanview question

Cathy wrote: 
"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


The camera settings determine the source. Some drivers allow a choice from the computer, others decide based on how the camera settings indicate. In my old camera, I had to copy files from the card to memory, or memory to card, and use the card reader. The new camera can access either with the proprietary software. Generally, I use only the cards, saving the internal memory for emergencies (ie. full card with no spare on hand).


--
Ron Hunter  rphunter@xxxxxxxxxxx
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