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FreeDOS
Posts: 1567/1657 |
Well, yeah just about the only thing you can do is search to see if someone else has used it successfully. If not, then you can try. (hey, the iPod uses a proprietary system to store the music database, it didn't stop a million other management programs from appearing) |
HyperLamer
Posts: 6556/8210 |
Let's not forget UMD.  |
Tarale
Posts: 2419/2720 |
Originally posted by drjayphd
Originally posted by Tarale
I could've told you without looking it up that it'd be proprietary.
Asking if a Sony product will use properietary methods/protocols is like asking "Is the Pope a Catholic?". 
See also: "Memory Stick" and "ATRAC". (rolls eyes)
Bingo. Memory Stick in particular sticks in my mind... when we have SD and Compact Flash... why... WHY did they need to create a new thing? |
drjayphd
Posts: 1282/1477 |
Originally posted by Tarale
I could've told you without looking it up that it'd be proprietary.
Asking if a Sony product will use properietary methods/protocols is like asking "Is the Pope a Catholic?".
See also: "Memory Stick" and "ATRAC". (rolls eyes) |
Tarale
Posts: 2416/2720 |
I could've told you without looking it up that it'd be proprietary.
Asking if a Sony product will use properietary methods/protocols is like asking "Is the Pope a Catholic?". |
Nebetsu
Posts: 1398/1574 |
I've looked it up. That's how I know it's proprietary... >> |
Tarale
Posts: 2414/2720 |
Originally posted by Nebetsu
Well... it doesn't seem to work under Linux. It's a Sony PSYC Network Walkman NW-E103. Is there anything I can do about the proprietaryness?
A Sony?! Proprietary? oh surely you jest!
There's a possibility that there will be a way to get around it, although I don't know off the top of my head. I'd suggest a good google search to see what you can find. Although it depends really if anybody's reverse-engineered Sony's proprietariness to the point of making it work in Linux. |
Nebetsu
Posts: 1397/1574 |
Well... it doesn't seem to work under Linux. It's a Sony PSYC Network Walkman NW-E103. Is there anything I can do about the proprietaryness? |
