On Sunday 27 January 2008 17:14, Kai Ponte wrote: > Just thought y'all would get a kick out of this: On my business > laptop, I'm running Vista with an openSUSE 10.3 VM appliance.
Just hate that business thing.. > I downloaded about 21G of files from our corporate network for me to > use at home. I have a 500G USB drive here that I use to store stuff > on. That's a lot of work.. ;-) > Well, I copied the files and went to paste them on the USB drive in > Vista. After about ten minutes, I noticed the progress bar was still > calculating the time to copy and had a current estimate of 74 hours. And therein lies the problem. You see, you asked Vista a hard question, and as it couldn't find the right answer, it was trying to make one up. Even that was hard for Vista to do. > I cancelled the process and fired up the VMWare session of openSUSE. > I then opened up the host drive via smb and the usb drive. I started > copying. > > 40 minutes later, the process was complete. > > Go openSUSE! Too bad you can't just delete the Vista and install openSuSE. Then maybe run Vista in a VM session.. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 X86_64 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 5:18pm up 164 days 21:50, 5 users, load average: 2.11, 2.26, 2.24 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
