Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Nicholas Frost
> Yes, if you remove the --delete parameter to the rsync call, then it > will not delete files that no longer exist in the source file system. At > RTI I don't use --delete when backing up certain project shares, to >protect against users' "accidental" file deletions. Of course, you end up >with a

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Nicholas Frost
> All the discussions of nifty hardware possibilities, along with my > slightly flower-child "whole shebang" view, leads me to ask folks > about their larger computing ecology and how it has impacted your > choice of new devices, whether desktops, laptops, phones, servers, > media (tivo, appletv, .

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-22 Thread Nicholas Frost
> I'll see your VMWare and raise it with a *free* Sun VirtualBox. I dropped > all of my VMWare licenses a few months ago and switched over completely to > VirtualBox. > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community > > Sun's VB is much faster, more flexible, and more full featured for what I > need t

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-22 Thread Nicholas Frost
> Well, my trusty Dell laptop HD has probebly died giving me an opportunity > to upgrade to the next best thing.  The next best thing must still be a > laptop, runs Apache, MySQL and PHP, GIMP and screams, for minimum bucks, > for all round office use and web development. Is it a MacOSX, Windows >

Re: [FRIAM] Food for Complex Thought

2008-12-21 Thread Nicholas Frost
> Owen's comic strip on chaos made me think of a photo I took a few > years back in Artesia, New Mexico, which I offer for your amusement. Hi Gary; How's life in Ecuador? I hope all is well since you left NCGR. Happy holidays and best wishes, -Nick NF5Q ===