[opensuse] openSUSE To the Rescue!
Just thought y'all would get a kick out of this: On my business laptop, I'm running Vista with an openSUSE 10.3 VM appliance. I downloaded about 21G of files from our corporate network for me to use at home. I have a 500G USB drive here that I use to store stuff on. Well, I copied the files and went to paste them on the USB drive in Vista. After about ten minutes, I noticed the progress bar was still calculating the time to copy and had a current estimate of 74 hours. I cancelled the process and fired up the VMWare session of openSUSE. I then opened up the host drive via smb and the usb drive. I started copying. 40 minutes later, the process was complete. Go openSUSE! -- k www.filesite.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 27 January 2008 17:14, Kai Ponte wrote:
Just thought y'all would get a kick out of this: On my business laptop, I'm running Vista with an openSUSE 10.3 VM appliance.
Just hate that business thing..
I downloaded about 21G of files from our corporate network for me to use at home. I have a 500G USB drive here that I use to store stuff on.
That's a lot of work.. ;-)
Well, I copied the files and went to paste them on the USB drive in Vista. After about ten minutes, I noticed the progress bar was still calculating the time to copy and had a current estimate of 74 hours.
And therein lies the problem. You see, you asked Vista a hard question, and as it couldn't find the right answer, it was trying to make one up. Even that was hard for Vista to do.
I cancelled the process and fired up the VMWare session of openSUSE. I then opened up the host drive via smb and the usb drive. I started copying.
40 minutes later, the process was complete.
Go openSUSE!
Too bad you can't just delete the Vista and install openSuSE. Then maybe run Vista in a VM session.. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 X86_64 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 5:18pm up 164 days 21:50, 5 users, load average: 2.11, 2.26, 2.24 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 27 January 2008 08:21:53 am Mike wrote:
On Sunday 27 January 2008 17:14, Kai Ponte wrote:
Just thought y'all would get a kick out of this: On my business laptop, I'm running Vista with an openSUSE 10.3 VM appliance.
Just hate that business thing..
Well, it pays the bills. :P Believe it or not, I was up this morning remoting into my XP machine at work (I have XP and Vista and openSUSE at the office) and working on a Visual Basic 6 application that one of my "programmers" had mucked up.
I downloaded about 21G of files from our corporate network for me to use at home. I have a 500G USB drive here that I use to store stuff on.
That's a lot of work.. ;-)
It is all the recent project files, along with various software packages for Wintendo - Visual Studio, Vista, XP, Office 2007, Visio, Rational, Atalasoft, and some other stuff.
Well, I copied the files and went to paste them on the USB drive in Vista. After about ten minutes, I noticed the progress bar was still calculating the time to copy and had a current estimate of 74 hours.
And therein lies the problem. You see, you asked Vista a hard question, and as it couldn't find the right answer, it was trying to make one up. Even that was hard for Vista to do.
LOL! They don't call it "wintendo" for nothing!
I cancelled the process and fired up the VMWare session of openSUSE. I then opened up the host drive via smb and the usb drive. I started copying.
40 minutes later, the process was complete.
Go openSUSE!
Too bad you can't just delete the Vista and install openSuSE. Then maybe run Vista in a VM session..
That's actually my plan. I had to get this laptop certified using an encrypted partition. We are expected to go with PointSec ( http://www.novell.com/partnerguide/product/201358.html ) for our encryption. However, Pointsec doesn't support 10.2 or 10.3 yet so I'm stuck. What I did was purchase a new hard drive (mine is only 90GB, so I purchased a 160GB drive) and will buy out of my pocket a copy of SLES along with Pointsec. SLES will be the primary OS on the laptop with Vista/XP being encapsulated in VM bottles. it is funny, the more I use Vista, the more I realize how Windows isn't ready for prime time yet. :P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 08:14 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
Just thought y'all would get a kick out of this: On my business laptop, I'm running Vista with an openSUSE 10.3 VM appliance.
I downloaded about 21G of files from our corporate network for me to use at home. I have a 500G USB drive here that I use to store stuff on.
Well, I copied the files and went to paste them on the USB drive in Vista. After about ten minutes, I noticed the progress bar was still calculating the time to copy and had a current estimate of 74 hours.
I cancelled the process and fired up the VMWare session of openSUSE. I then opened up the host drive via smb and the usb drive. I started copying.
40 minutes later, the process was complete.
Go openSUSE!
-- k www.filesite.org
Slow copying of files to USB devices seems to be a bug in Vista ( probably one of millions ). I found using Teracopy helped a great deal. I takes over the copying of files from vasta and copies them much quicker! http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php Richard G. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Kai Ponte wrote:
Just thought y'all would get a kick out of this: On my business laptop, I'm running Vista with an openSUSE 10.3 VM appliance.
I downloaded about 21G of files from our corporate network for me to use at home. I have a 500G USB drive here that I use to store stuff on.
Well, I copied the files and went to paste them on the USB drive in Vista. After about ten minutes, I noticed the progress bar was still calculating the time to copy and had a current estimate of 74 hours.
I cancelled the process and fired up the VMWare session of openSUSE. I then opened up the host drive via smb and the usb drive. I started copying.
40 minutes later, the process was complete.
Considering that Vista was pronounced a steaming pile of **** on delivery, this is hardly a a great victory. In fact, I would be disappointed if your experience was not the case.
Go openSUSE!
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