[RFC] List of Networking Clients

2012-10-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, Yesterday, I started a list of (prominent) networking clients on my home page: http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/resources/networking-clients/ Most of them are open-source and run fine on Linux. Any comments or additions would be welcome. The list is licensed under the open media CC-

Re: new disk - rsync or hardware problem

2012-10-12 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I may have found the (hardware) problem. For an unrelated reason I moved the disk to a different USB port on the same computer. My script has now been running for quite a while and written about 90 Gb of data with (so far) no problem. The new disk is USB 3.0 (2.0 compatible) but the computer is US

Re: new disk - rsync or hardware problem

2012-10-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Shlomo, On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:52:47 +0200 Shlomo Solomon wrote: > short version: > I have a new USB external drive. The script I used on my old disk > crashes randomly after the disk mysteriously becomes read-only. > Re-mounting solves the problem. I suspect a hardware problem, but > can't

Re: ???In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword??? - New York Times Feature

2012-10-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Nadav, please fix the handling of Unicode characters in the Subject: line of the messages you reply to. Currently, it replaced them with question marks. This has been an ongoing problem with your E-mail client for many years now. Regards, Shlomi Fish On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 15:09:55 +0200

Re: new disk - rsync or hardware problem

2012-10-12 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Shlomo, On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 09:52:47AM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > As I wrote above, I suspect a hardware problem, but on the other hand, > if that's the case, why does re-mounting solve the problem? In any > case, I don't believe that BUG or LaCie will help me, as soon as they > hear I

new disk - rsync or hardware problem

2012-10-12 Thread Shlomo Solomon
short version: I have a new USB external drive. The script I used on my old disk crashes randomly after the disk mysteriously becomes read-only. Re-mounting solves the problem. I suspect a hardware problem, but can't prove it and I'm sure if I go to BUG with the disk they'll say "It doesn't suppor