DrVxD - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Finally! An interesting question. (Score 1) 153

by DrVxD on Monday May 21, @12:54PM (#40066293) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Temporary Backup Pouch?

Extra extra extra bonus points if you compress the changed files when storing them on the flash drive.

Hint for the bonus question: gzip ;)

by DrVxD on Monday May 21, @12:52PM (#40066255) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Temporary Backup Pouch?

Yes.

by DrVxD on Monday May 21, @03:50AM (#40062137) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Temporary Backup Pouch?

rsync doesn't handle deletions

rsync handles deletions just fine - that's why it has a --delete option...

by DrVxD on Sunday May 13, @07:31AM (#39984863) Attached to: Living Fossils: Old Tech That Just Won't Die

If XML isn't fixing your problems, you must be using it...

FTFY...

by DrVxD on Sunday May 13, @07:19AM (#39984829) Attached to: Living Fossils: Old Tech That Just Won't Die

Some would argue that American english is bad english.

There are others would argue that American "English" isn't English.

by DrVxD on Sunday May 13, @05:46AM (#39984403) Attached to: Living Fossils: Old Tech That Just Won't Die

So... pick the good ones and ignore the bad. eg. Windows 7 is a massive improvement over XP.

"better than XP" != "good"

by DrVxD on Tuesday May 08, @02:17AM (#39924511) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tool To Detect Corrupted Files?

Why bother hashing? Just compare the contents of the files.

by DrVxD on Tuesday May 08, @01:53AM (#39924421) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tool To Detect Corrupted Files?

Consider the possibility that the backup already contains corrupted files

In which case, it's not a backup - it's just a waste of storage space.

by DrVxD on Tuesday May 01, @02:28PM (#39859939) Attached to: Quantum Experiment Shows Effect Before Cause

We now have a bidirectional time machine.

One that travels from the past to the future - and also to the future from the past...:)

by DrVxD on Tuesday May 01, @02:27PM (#39859921) Attached to: Quantum Experiment Shows Effect Before Cause

That seems like a method for passing information into the future...

Much like, say, writing it down...