[CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Timo Schoeler
May be a little bit off topic, but this gave me hard laugh: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/sysadmin_file_tools/ Windows admins use a virtualized CentOS machine to copy files because their own tools are not able to handle copying a bigger amount of data. :) Cheers, Timo

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Tom Bishop
+1 Just Awesome.ROFL.too funny :) Thanks for the link On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Timo Schoeler timo.schoe...@riscworks.netwrote: May be a little bit off topic, but this gave me hard laugh: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/sysadmin_file_tools/ Windows admins use a

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Tom Bishop spake: +1 Just Awesome.ROFL.too funny :) Thanks for the link Maybe stuff for then next newsletter...? On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Timo Schoeler timo.schoe...@riscworks.netwrote: May be a little bit off topic, but this gave me hard laugh:

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Chris W Tucker
* Timo Schoeler (timo.schoe...@riscworks.net) wrote: May be a little bit off topic, but this gave me hard laugh: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/sysadmin_file_tools/ Windows admins use a virtualized CentOS machine to copy files because their own tools are not able to handle copying

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Gabriel Ogunleye
, with a post-it note sayin - This is why I use linux :) -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Timo Schoeler Sent: 24 September 2010 14:23 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] In the press, once again May be a little bit off topic

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 24 September 2010 14:23, Timo Schoeler timo.schoe...@riscworks.net wrote: Windows admins use a virtualized CentOS machine to copy files because their own tools are not able to handle copying a bigger amount of data. :) Although I read the article with some amusement, I have to wonder what's

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/24/2010 10:37 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: On 24 September 2010 14:23, Timo Schoelertimo.schoe...@riscworks.net wrote: Windows admins use a virtualized CentOS machine to copy files because their own tools are not able to handle copying a bigger amount of data. :) Although I read the article

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread miguelmedalha
May be a little bit off topic, but this gave me hard laugh: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/sysadmin_file_tools/ VERY nice! Thank you for the link! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 09/24/2010 08:37 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: On 24 September 2010 14:23, Timo Schoelertimo.schoe...@riscworks.net wrote: Windows admins use a virtualized CentOS machine to copy files because their own tools are not able to handle copying a bigger amount of data. :) Although I

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 09:54 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: On 09/24/2010 08:37 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: On 24 September 2010 14:23, Timo Schoelertimo.schoe...@riscworks.net wrote: Windows admins use a virtualized CentOS machine to copy files because their own tools are not able to handle

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
Until Cygwin's developers decide the join the rest of the window's universe in having an *uninstaller* it will remain not installed - ever on many people's systems, including mine. IMO, a windows system with Cygwin and Cygwin tools isn't really a Windows system anymore; it is an

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread James A. Peltier
It was funny, but it would have been more efficient to use tar over netcat instead of CP or rsync to initially populate the directory. It would be a steady data stream to the network and wouldn't beat up on the file system as bad as rsync would. Good read none the less. :) - Original

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/24/2010 11:54 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On 24 September 2010 14:23, Timo Schoelertimo.schoe...@riscworks.net wrote: Windows admins use a virtualized CentOS machine to copy files because their own tools are not able to handle copying a bigger amount of data. :) Although I read

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/24/2010 12:08 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: It was funny, but it would have been more efficient to use tar over netcat instead of CP or rsync to initially populate the directory. It would be a steady data stream to the network and wouldn't beat up on the file system as bad as rsync

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 9/24/2010 12:08 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | It was funny, but it would have been more efficient to use tar over | netcat instead of CP or rsync to initially populate the directory. | It would be a steady data stream to the network and wouldn't beat up | on

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 24 September 2010 18:04, Brunner, Brian T. bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: No Windows functionalities are lost by installing Cygwin. Cygwin has the SAME uninstall that Windows does: install CentOS. cwrsync comes with an uninstallable package and works OK, makes copying loads of files across

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Warren Young
On 9/24/2010 10:54 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: Until Cygwin's developers decide the join the rest of the window's universe in having an *uninstaller* it will remain not installed - ever on many people's systems, including mine. It is completely unacceptable that it is happy to install, but that

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Gary Greene
On 24/9/10 2:16 PM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: On 9/24/2010 10:54 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: Until Cygwin's developers decide the join the rest of the window's universe in having an *uninstaller* it will remain not installed - ever on many people's systems, including mine. It is