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

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Al" == Alex Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk> writes:

    >> Or re-transmitting the broken file in full, with correct
    >> settings this time.  And it would have no impact at all on
    >> transmission time on any link slower than the PCI bus.

    Al> You then have to have some method of communication between
    Al> server and client in the middle of transfer - again, extra
    Al> complexity, especially since you are already using the entire
    Al> range of possible bitstreams. Depends how big your packets
    Al> are, I suppose it may not make that much difference.

Um, what do you think the control connection (port 21) is for?  Data
goes via port 20....

    Al> Maybe the Windows community went for 'safety first' when they
    Al> realised that a lot of ftp users generally use it for
    Al> downloading documents, and ASCII documents on UNIX servers
    Al> have different characteristics (CRLF/LF) - I would imagine the
    Al> ftp program may do some replacing like that. Depends how many
    Al> users you think you're going to annoy...

Yup.  And seat belts made of pink satin ribbon would probably convince
a lot of little girls to wear them.  Annoyance is the price of safety,
always has been, always will be.

    Al> Strange definition ;) I don't see anything under
    Al> /usr/src/linux/arch/i386 being 'apart' from Linux just because
    Al> it doesn't run on multiple platforms.  Anything which
    Al> integrates with a unix system would be judged to be part of a
    Al> unix system imho ;)

Well, since you can use Mozilla to connect to www.microsoft.com, I
guess that makes MSFT part of your Linux system.

LILO doesn't "integrate" with the Unix system; it is a general purpose
bootloader and would be just as happy, well, maybe not "happy," but
effective, managing 6 different variations on the MS-DR-DOS Win-3.1-
NT-95-98-2000 theme, with not a real OS to be found within a billion
sectors.

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