Yeah, there's 'Explore2FS' for Windows. Would be much easier to be able to do things directly to the filesystem though, so I'll probably install the slightly suspect NTFS driver on Kubuntu (and start taking more regular backups on Windows).
It seems than when you upgrade Ubuntu, it seems to silently drop any kernel modules that aren't compatible with the new kernel. I can understand why they do this (not that it helps my reliability - [K]Ubuntu never boots up first time for me after an upgrade), but it's not rocket science to check the modules currently in use and warn the user that some of them are incompatible with the kernel it's about to install.
MacOS X does seem to have most of the best of both worlds, including a non-retarded community. (Some of the answers I've got from Linux people as to why their software does something retarded are, well, retarded. Which I suppose shouldn't surprise me.) But one reason I have Linux on here is because I work on server software that runs on remote Linux servers. It's not 100% platform independent so I really need to check it on the right platform. That's what I was hoping to work on today, until I ran into this week's set of issues.
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It seems than when you upgrade Ubuntu, it seems to silently drop any kernel modules that aren't compatible with the new kernel. I can understand why they do this (not that it helps my reliability - [K]Ubuntu never boots up first time for me after an upgrade), but it's not rocket science to check the modules currently in use and warn the user that some of them are incompatible with the kernel it's about to install.
MacOS X does seem to have most of the best of both worlds, including a non-retarded community. (Some of the answers I've got from Linux people as to why their software does something retarded are, well, retarded. Which I suppose shouldn't surprise me.) But one reason I have Linux on here is because I work on server software that runs on remote Linux servers. It's not 100% platform independent so I really need to check it on the right platform. That's what I was hoping to work on today, until I ran into this week's set of issues.