Thank you for that ever so polite answer Janina *smile* You are, as always, as helpful as ever. Have a nice day. Take care, Sina No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Janina Sajka Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 2:15 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Linux and data storage? What do you mean "Is there a Linux equivalent?" Have you forgotten where networking was invented? It certainly wasn't invented on Windows, Sina. Sheesh. What a question. This is trivial on Linux. We've done it for years. There are several ways to accomplish it. Get a clue. Sina Bahram writes: > If I may humbly suggest? > > Fxp, or flash xp as I think it is...is a windows tool that allows > someone to connect to one ftp, then connect to the other ftp...and > then say, FTP A, copy stuff to FTP B....then all you have to do is sit > back and let the data packets flow...it doesn't go through your system > at all: so you could transfer information at any speed, only limited > by the two ftp servers, not by your own connection. > > *shrug* is there a linux equivalent to this tool/protocall? > > Take care, > Sina > > No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large > number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Chuck Hallenbeck > Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 8:51 PM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: Linux and data storage? > > Karen, > > You have two bottlenecks, seems to me. One is your connection speed, > the other is nettamer. You can use "tar" on your ISP's system to > aggregate those precious files into one archive, assuming you have the > space, and then move that archive somewhere. Nettamer could retrieve > it with its ftp facility, but it might take forever over a dialup link. > > If you had a linux desktop, you could use an ftp client on your > desktop, call it "system A", to move files from "system B" to "system > C", assuming you had the necessary access permissions and such. > > Also, you could email stuff to yourself with attachments, although > nettamer is a little weird about attachments, and then you have filesize limits. > > Finally, if you had a Linux desktop and a high speed connection you > would be home free. Just grab all those files quickly with an FTP > client, move them to your desktop, and burn them to a CD if you need to. > > My Linux system uses two 40 GB disks, one of which is used extensively > to backup stuff on the other. Not exactly a raid system, but heavily redundant. > I do use CD backups too once in a blue moon. > > Your DOS desktop has limited HD storage. A Linux desktop would not. I > have a DOS partition of 500 MB on each of my two 40 GB hard discs, > just in case, but have not booted into DOS in several years. For my > own situation, I cannot imagine ever being able (psychologically) to > return to DOS and Nettamer. > > Chuck > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
