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From: Nix on 19 Nov 2008 17:46
On 18 Nov 2008, Unruh said:
> I would not trust anyone who named his program for a well known utility. It
> indicates shear irrespoinsibility or ignorance, neither of which are
> conducive to trusting him to write decent software.

I ran into a Java program a while back which ran a computer-controlled
lathe. What had the author called it? 'make'.

(Still, at least you were unlikely to do software development on a
machine running it.)

--
`Not even vi uses vi key bindings for its command line.' --- PdS
From: David Powell on 21 Nov 2008 12:56
In article <87vduj1ghk.fsf(a)hades.wkstn.nix>,
Nix <nix-razor-pit(a)esperi.org.uk> in uk.comp.os.linux wrote:

>On 18 Nov 2008, Unruh said:
>> I would not trust anyone who named his program for a well known utility. It
>> indicates shear irrespoinsibility or ignorance, neither of which are
>> conducive to trusting him to write decent software.
>
>I ran into a Java program a while back which ran a computer-controlled
>lathe. What had the author called it? 'make'.
>
>(Still, at least you were unlikely to do software development on a
>machine running it.)

Took me a long time to get used to the new meaning of "make" after I
downgraded to *nix from DEC software. MAKE FOO.MAC runs TECO and
opens for editing a new file FOO.MAC. "MAKE LOVE" gives the expected
completion: which gives a good clue as to how old this useage of
"make" is.

Regards,

David P.

From: F8BOE on 22 Nov 2008 01:47
T i m wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there a (ideally free) util that would work like Ghost to allow me
> to clone one drive onto another from a Live CD of some sort please?
>
> Or if I would have to install it, something that would run under
> Ubuntu (8.1)?
>
> Cheers, T i m


Hello,

DD in the command line does it. It also makes iso and img files if you want.

More info with "man dd".

Ciao @+
From: T i m on 24 Nov 2008 03:21
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:47:11 +0100, F8BOE <f8boe(a)bluemail.ch> wrote:

>T i m wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there a (ideally free) util that would work like Ghost to allow me
>> to clone one drive onto another from a Live CD of some sort please?
>>
>> Or if I would have to install it, something that would run under
>> Ubuntu (8.1)?
>>
>> Cheers, T i m
>
>
>Hello,
>
>DD in the command line does it. It also makes iso and img files if you want.
>
>More info with "man dd".
>
>Ciao @+

Thanks for that.

I managed it with a gui util (more up my street) but I'll check out dd
when I get a chance as it sounds pretty powerful.

Cheers, T i m
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