cute, cuter, cutest ...
you're surely t' best.
[further comments below]
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Felmon Davis <dav...@union.edu> wrote:
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, anne-ology wrote:
>
> you took all my puns away ...
>>
>
> just doing humanity a service.
[http://www.thepunalsorises.com/]
>
>
> I haven't any more; but ne'er fear,
>> the punster will re-appear ;-)
>>
>
> we are armed.
["... to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end
them" yet I've punned with the best of 'em, ne'er taken yet ;-) ]
>
>
> And, by the way, I really haven't learned what rsync is - I guess I
>> could 'search' and learn ;-)
>>
>
> it's a utility for transferring files, especially backing them up. so I do
> a frequent backup of certain directories I have on a server to my home
> computer. rsync is fast and will only make copies of stuff that's not
> already at the destination (if you set it to work that way).
>
> I think the 'r' stands for 'remote' but I don't know; the source doesn't
> need to be 'remote' though. I just backed up one older external drive I
> have (was making funny noises) to another newer one.
>
[funny noises, eh ... maybe it was speaking to you in its own
language ;-) ]
>
> F.
Oh, yes, Thanks for this information!
>
>
>
>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Felmon Davis <dav...@union.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, anne-ology wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> rsync ???
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think i are sinking fast ...
>>>>
>>>> sink vb sinks, sinking, sank ; sunk, sunken
>>>>
>>>>
>>> you are probably just joshing around but 'sync' has nothing to do with
>>> 'sink'; one is germanic, the other is greek.
>>>
>>> 'syn'+'chronos' as in 'synchronize'.
>>>
>>> sometimes the spelling of words, like the syntax of directory paths,
>>> matters.
>>>
>>> (and 'syntax' has nothing to do with 'sin' or 'taxes'!)
>>>
>>> 'rsync' is a great utility; I assume it's available for Windows but I
>>> don't know but there's certainly equivalent stuff.
>>>
>>> Felmon Davis
>>>
>>>
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