Re: [libreoffice-users] query re. LO crashing ...

       cute, cuter, cutest ...
       you're surely t' best.

       [further comments below]



On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> wrote:

On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, anne-ology wrote:
>        you took all my puns away ...
> >
>
> just doing humanity a service.


       [http://www.thepunalsorises.com/]

>            I haven't any more; but ne'er fear,
> >           the punster will re-appear  ;-)
>
> we are armed.


       ["... to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end
them" yet I've punned with the best of 'em, ne'er taken yet  ;-) ]

>        And, by the way, I really haven't learned what rsync is - I guess I
> > could 'search' and learn  ;-)
>
> it's a utility for transferring files, especially backing them up. so I do
> a frequent backup of certain directories I have on a server to my home
> computer. rsync is fast and will only make copies of stuff that's not
> already at the destination (if you set it to work that way).
>
> I think the 'r' stands for 'remote' but I don't know; the source doesn't
> need to be 'remote' though. I just backed up one older external drive I
> have (was making funny noises) to another newer one.

       [funny noises, eh ... maybe it was speaking to you in its own
language  ;-) ]


> F.


       Oh, yes, Thanks for this information!


> > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, anne-ology wrote:
> >
> > >        rsync  ???
> > >
> > > >       I think i are sinking fast ...
> > > >
> > > > sink  vb sinks, sinking, sank ; sunk, sunken
> > > you are probably just joshing around but 'sync' has nothing to do with
> > > 'sink'; one is germanic, the other is greek.
> > >
> > > 'syn'+'chronos' as in 'synchronize'.
> > >
> > > sometimes the spelling of words, like the syntax of directory paths,
> > > matters.
> > >
> > > (and 'syntax' has nothing to do with 'sin' or 'taxes'!)
> > >
> > > 'rsync' is a great utility; I assume it's available for Windows but I
> > > don't know but there's certainly equivalent stuff.
> > >
> > > Felmon Davis

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