Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Gary Greene
On 24/9/10 2:16 PM, "Warren Young" 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 completely

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

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 24 September 2010 18:04, Brunner, Brian T. 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 Windows boxen bearable.

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 | >

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 w

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 Schoeler >>> 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 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 Mess

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;

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 Schoeler > > wrote: > >> Windows admins use a virtualized CentOS machine to copy files because > >> their own tools are not able to handle copying a bigger

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 Schoeler 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

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 Les Mikesell
On 9/24/2010 10:37 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > On 24 September 2010 14:23, Timo Schoeler 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,

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 24 September 2010 14:23, Timo Schoeler 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 wrong with rsync (has a Win

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

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 co

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 > wrote: > >> May be a little bit off topic, but this gave me hard laugh: >> >> http://www.theregister.co.u

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 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 mach

[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