Re: [Sheflug] I hate Windoze, Samba and RAID.

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

> >  You *did* copy
> > the files over ftp as *binary*, didn't you? Autodetecting doesn't always
> > work, and command line ftp commands often default to ascii.
>  Ooops. Didn`t even think about that. I so used to seeing it be sorted
> for me under Linux. The one time I need a Micro$oft product to be
> automated in some way (sod the autocorrect, autospell,
> auto-make-you-a-cup-of-blooming-tea-whilst-you-write-drivel modes I want
> auto-binary/ascii!!!) - it isn't there. Typical.

Don't blame Windows, it's not always a feature present on Linux. In fact,
it's nothing to do with the operating system, it's an implementation thing.
This is why things like AFS, Gftp, exist - ftp isn't a language meant to be
spoken by humans. I don't communicate with my mail server using POP, I don't
communicate with my file server using FTP. You can talk it, in fact it's not
very hard (neither is POP), it's just that you're fairly twisted if you do
;)))

> > If this is actually what happened, you have 4.5Gb of meaningless 1s
> > and 0s, I'm afraid.
>  Well, it's not quite that bad. I worked it out - a mere 3.82Gb of
> useless 0's and 1's (plus a Gb or so for Windoze itself, of course :-).

Oh well, thank god ;))

>  Yup. I'll be building in SMB support into my new kernel, on my new,
> very bare machine. *Sob* *Blubber* *Whimper*
>  The Oh-my-GOD-everything-is-in-this-thing kernel that RedHat install as
> part of the standard distro allowed me to mount a SMB share - it's just
> like using NFS, including all the security risks, no doubt.
>  Works OK tho.

Yep. Don't expect standard kernels to be secure, they're not, as a rule.
RedHat (depending which edition you buy) prefers ease of use, given that if
you're putting this thing in a critical area, you ought to know how to
configure it properly in the first place ;) SMB as a protocol is notoriously
insecure anyway, so you'd have to be running it on a private network
preferably behind a firewall.

>  Quite right, ftp, and a liberal helping of operator error. A big slice
> in fact. Cake anyone?
> > P.S. I *did* warn you of the consequences of making a pact with UNIX
satan,
> > didn't I? Not that I'm sayng it's related, of course, but I suspect your
> > machine of working against you ;))
>  I would happily sell my soul to to *NIX devil. It's the Windoze one I'd
> like to beat until it stops moving :-)

Bah. The UNIX one is far worse. The Windows one is fat and lazy and just
makes computers blue screen. The UNIX one is malevolent ;) It's worse with
Windows ME - UNIX satan particularly likes to infest LILO, and the fact that
making boot disks under WinME is a PITA (and you're never going to get to a
command line to fdisk /mbr ;), corrupting LILO is probably too tempting ;)

Cheers,

Alex.

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