From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ip15.shellworld.net ([64.49.204.174] helo=server2.shellworld.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CC1wZ-0005ws-00 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:17:55 -0400 Received: from server2.shellworld.net (klewellen@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i8RKHsEo004285 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:17:54 GMT (envelope-from klewellen@shellworld.net) Received: from localhost (klewellen@localhost) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id i8RKHsad004282 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:17:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: server2.shellworld.net: klewellen owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:17:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Karen Lewellen To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: <20040927181736.GL7958@rednote.net> Message-ID: References: <200409270101.i8R113Zg026012@ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com> <20040927181736.GL7958@rednote.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: Linux and data storage? X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:17:56 -0000 Hi janina, Perhaps you did not read all of my post, but again I only have one machine. If the program suggested does not require my system, but does require windows, anyone living anywhere that I know an complete the task for me it seems. but your suggestion involves my having two computers which I have said I do not have. Karen On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > If you have ftp access on two machines, forget Windows, and just log > into one. Launch a good ftp client like ncftp, start the transfer, > and go to bed. > > You certainly don't need Windows. > > PS: If you use ncftp you could even use bgget (or bgput) to run the > transfers in background, which means you could log off and your files > would still get transfered. > > Now, does Windows have that? Huh, Sina? > > Karen Lewellen writes: >> hmm, >> Let me be sure I follow you. >> This is a program that runs in windows, that would let me move the contents >> of my shellworld workspace, to say the >> storage on my website and that is not located on >> shellworld? >> if all this is true, where can i find this tool? >> Karen >> >> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Sina Bahram wrote: >> >>> 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@braille.uwo.ca >>> [mailto:speakup-bounces@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@braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Chair > Accessibility Workgroup > Free Standards Group (FSG) > > janina@freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >