Archive for April, 2005
SCP Hints
17 April 2005Just a few quick speed hints for using SCP, which came my way:
The -C flag will tell SSH/SCP to compress stuff. In general I use it
all the time. CPUs are so much faster than networks still so
compression is your friend.
Depending on your platform, using the blowfish cipher should be a little
faster than using [...]
Open source in the police department
17 April 2005What I appreciate about this article over at RedHat (as I read):
1. This guy clearly will bounce between operating systems. He mentions “MSYS” (http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml) which also should be in one’s bag of tricks with cygwin.
2. He is willing to consider some old 8086 machines and dot-matrix printers as potential time-saving tools.
3. He mentions the [...]