On Apr 8, 2007, at 9:37 AM, Jan van Wijk wrote: > Actually my software is multi-platform (DOS, Linux, OS/2 and > Windows sofar) > so I would need to run most/all of that in parallels wich seems > possible > from the specifications. My software is text-based at the moment, > being > system-level file and disk-recovery software, but I plan to add a > GUI to it.
I don't quite understand, but you know what you're developing better than I do. > OK, understood. > I think I will go for a fast Firewire-800 disk (perhaps Lacie 500Gb) > as a 'permanent' second disk (for Lightroom 2ndary storage as well), > and then use cheap USB 2.0 external disks with FAT32 for backup. > (I already have several of those for testing anyway :-) A tip regards Lightroom: If you're going to put a large bunch of photos together on an external drive and want it to be transportable to other systems as well, put the library on the external drive too. That way Lightroom will spend less time checking the status of the file system at startup. >> I suggest formatting the startup drive or partition on which Mac OS >> X, the Mac OS X development system (Xcode and all its compiler/ >> linker/ >> IDE/etc components), > > Do these come with the machine standard, or do I have to buy them ? The Apple Xcode development tools package comes with the machine but is not installed by default. It is encapsulated in a disk image on- disk and on the DVDs that come with the machine. Xcode updates are available by downloading from http://developer.apple.com Helping bring the Apple Xcode tools package to developers was my principle responsibility at Apple from the period 1999 to 2004. It is the comprehensive, professional development system for Mac OS X, used by both the majority of third party software vendors and Apple itself. >> Mac OS X can also read NTFS volumes but cannot write to them. > > Yes, same situation as Linux and OS/2 I guess (complexity issues :-) It is partially the complexity and partially that Microsoft has not released the full NTFS specification for third parties to use. > May bug you again in some time when starting to > actually use it and Lightroom :-) Not a problem at all. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
