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Joined: 10 Jun 2005
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Location: Australia
Posted: Thu 27 Sep 2007, 06:34
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dhcpcd update.
rerwin reported a MAC-address misidentification issue with the new version of dhcpcd earlier in this thread, and also on the Developer Forum.
So I emailed the maintainer of the dhcpcd project, Roy Marples, about the problem. Roy's prompt reply was this:
"dhcpcd-3.1 uses client node identifiers, which is correct.
To stop this either disable ENABLE_DUID in config.h or use -I '' on the dhcpcd command line.
Basically, the error is that the DHCP server assumes that the clientID field holds the MAC address.
This assumption is invalid for a few reasons
1) RFC 2131 states that the ClientID is optional
2) RFC 2131 also states that it could be a user defined string (type 0)
OR a MAC address (type 1)
RFC 4361 goes on to extent this by using type 255.
In other words, the DHCP server in question doesn't allow the RFC guidelines."
So the question is now whether we make a HOWTO post on the forum about this subject, and trust that affected users will see the information and be able to launch dhcpcd with the required parameters ... or I recompile dhcpcd with "ENABLE_DUID" disabled.
Any opinions?
Do we think that enough routers will have this problem to justify permanently disabling DUID?
Or is the DUID function, which is supposed to be technically correct, worth keeping?
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Location: Wyoming, USA
Posted: Thu 27 Sep 2007, 09:46
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Add another button to the network wizard under the "Auto DHCP" button, "Auto DHCP w/o DUID"? And use it to launch with the -I switch? Normally, users trying to get their network up will attempt one, then the other, without much in the way of support on the forum...
Could add a short explanatory note there also, or something as simple as "If Auto DHCP does not work, try Auto DHCP w/o DUID."
First let's make sure adding the switch on the command line does actually fix the problems rerwin and maybe others have seen...
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Posted: Thu 27 Sep 2007, 12:02
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PaulBx1 wrote:
First let's make sure adding the switch on the command line does actually fix the problems rerwin and maybe others have seen...
Yes indeed. rerwin (and gliezl) the command is -
dhcpcd -I '' eth0
That's hyphen, uppercase i, space, single inverted comma, single inverted comma.
And it might be necessary to kill dhcpcd first, if it's already running
dhcpcd -k eth0
rm /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.*
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Posted: Thu 27 Sep 2007, 17:37
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Hi Barry, am using the 3.00 beta and have backgrounded the network with the code from this thread
and it is working fine.
It Knocked 21% off my boot time (from 43 down to 34 seconds excluding POST)
PClinux takes 55 seconds to boot.
I think we should be able to boot in half that speed with a bit of tweaking
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Posted: Fri 28 Sep 2007, 09:05
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CUPS still not printing on my Canon iP4300 although it appears to recognise that it exists. No jobs appear in the Q.
Barry, unless it's light outside, go get some kip mate!
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Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Fri 28 Sep 2007, 18:04
Post subject: dhcpcd follow-up
Subject description: Opinion on resolution for 3.00
Many, many thanks, tempestuous, for pursuing the "autodhcp" problem I reported. I have examined the documentation at the link you included and understand why the change was made and what it is intended to accomplish. I will review what I understand and opine (as a former corporate programmer on mission-critical ealtime satellite control systems).
This DHCP client supports the DHCPv4 specifications which have been updated to be compatible with the newer DHCPv6 specs. This impacts the "clientID" that is transmitted to "the network" (router, in my case). The controlling documents, RFC 2131 & RFC 2132 have been updated to delete some options in the composition of the clientID, specifically the use of the network interface MAC address alone; it can be combined with other data as a client ID, but in a format that does not begin with the MAC address.
In the real world, and acknowledged in the RFC documents, some networking equipment (e.g. D-Link DI-524) work only with the MAC address form of ClientID -- or at least their user interface expects them. The devices operate under firmware control; so updates to comply with the modified requirements depend on each manufacturer releasing a firmware upgrade -- very unlikely for older units.
All of the man pages I could find (up to 3.0.19) state that if a clientID is not specified (as in Puppy), the default is the MAC address. The 2.17/3.00 version, 3.1.0 (and probably earlier), changes the default that all software relies on, without notifying anyone (that I could find) of the impact of the change in default -- or that it has changed! This secretive revision of the rules was frowned upon in my programming environment, to put it mildly.
However, I see the desirablity of adapting to the new requirements. The benefit I see for Puppy users is that a PC or laptop that has both an NIC and a wireless card (or either built in) would be recognized on a network as the same computer and IP address; currently, each interface on that computer would have a separate IP address and appear as a separate computer. (Another issue the changes address is the fact that an IP address is associated with a NIC or wireless card that could be moved to another computer, instead of continuing to associate the IP address with the computer. This is important in sophisticated networks where the IP address is associated with other characteristics of the particular computer's place in the network configuration; changing out a NIC upsets this.)
In the recommendations for implementing "node-specific identification" of networked equipment, the burden appears to be placed on the client (Puppy, through dhcpcd) to ensure that only one "clientID" is issued by a computer-&-operating system (I think). If a PC has multiple network interfaces, it must use the same ID on all interfaces; this means additional logic either in Puppy or dhcpcd. The dhcpcd developer has not (AFAIK) announced what DHCPCD does about this or expects from the invoker. I suspect that Puppy will have to build a ClientID somehow and pass it as the "-I ..." option to dhcpcd; or it will have to read the ID that dhcpcd creates (but has not been described, or how to read it) and save and re-use it for all subsequent invocations.
With that as background, I feel that, for now, Puppy must ensure that nothing changes in what it uses to identify PCs. I have tested the recommendation to use "-I ''" and it appears to work; my test entailed inserting that parameter into the script net-setup.sh invocation of dhcpcd.
Although the new parameter restores the expected behavior, so would reverting to the old version (1.3.22) or the Slackware version (2.0.4) of dhcpcd. However, 3.1.0 seems to have other bugs that I reported in the beta2 thread. Both 2.0.4 and 3.1.0 give false positives for a not-completely-connected interface; but ifconfig shows different consequences of that -- 2.0.4 shows no eth0 link (good), while 3.1.0 results in an "active" link using IP address 169.254.184.245 (at least on my system) that causes the browser to (frustratingly) not find any web sites (bad). What is a newbie to do!
The conservative action for 3.00 final would be to revert to 1.3.22 and wait until next release to implement compliance with the ClientID requirements of 3.1.0, whatever they turn out to be, and/or to correct the false-positive problem. Are there any compelling reasons for jumping to 3.1.0 ahead of all mainstream Linux distributions?
FYI, I see that the developer web site may be
, but I could not get it to load.
Thanks, again, for initiating the dialog with the developer.
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Location: Australia
Posted: Fri 28 Sep 2007, 22:23
Post subject: Re: dhcpcd follow-up
Subject description: Opinion on resolution for 3.00
rerwin wrote:
The conservative action for 3.00 final would be to revert to 1.3.22
Potentially, that sounds OK ... but testing is required.
Forum member tony reported a freeze with the old version of dhcpcd and his Ralink wifi driver -
... but the Ralink driver had problems at that stage, and has been updated since then.
dhcpcd may be innocent in this case.
And some other forum members have reported that their wifi configuration is successfully retained at each boot up with the new dhcpcd, whereas they lost it with the old one.
So I have posted the old dhcpcd version (1.3.22) here as a dotpet -
It would be good if people could try this in Puppy 3.0 beta.
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Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 1953
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Sat 29 Sep 2007, 08:57
Post subject: Contingency dhcpcd plan
Subject description: Consider 2.0.4 to resolve wireless issues
Thanks, tempestuous, for considering my conservative approach and for recalling the old issues with 1.3.22.
If anyone continues to see problems with 1.3.22 and wireless, it would be interesting to know whether 2.0.4 corrects them. So, along with the dotpet you have provided, would you consider making one for 2.0.4? I extracted dhcpcd from the slackware dhcpcd-2.0.4 package, but a dotpet would make it easier for those with wireless issues to try it.
If this compromise version cures the wireless problems, we might use it, instead, even though it produces a false positive in the HomePlug situation; at least it handles it better than 3.1.0
EDIT: Afterthought: Since the meaning of "default" appears ambiguous for the "-I" option, it would probably be prudent to be explicit, in the net-setup wizard's invocation of dhcpcd, to insert the "-I ''" string into it. The result would be in line 897 in beta3:
if dhcpcd -d -I '' "$INTERFACE"
This would ensure that the eventual step-up to version 3.x.x would not impact the use of MAC addresses until code is added to provide the alternative of using the "node-specific" client ID as intended by the rule-makers -- to use the same ID for all network interfaces on the same computer.
EDIT: After a reality test -- do not add the option/parameter as I suggest above! I tried that with 2.17 with dhcpcd 1.3.22 in place of 3.1.0 and saw an unexpected misbehavior. Without the "I" option, my Equium is assigned ...103, which I told my router to use for the MAC address of the Equium.
But with "-I ''", the router assigned ...107, apparently because it thought the Equium was a different computer on my LAN, turned off but connected via a USB HomePlug device. The NIC is part of the device, so probably is always on; the router got confused. When I removed the "-I ''" option from net-setup.sh and reran the wizard, the Equium was recognized correctly and was assigned ...103.
Another reason to not make the change is that "-I ''" is not a documented
value for the I option. That may have been added for 3.1.0 -- in secret.
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Location: Australia
Posted: Sun 30 Sep 2007, 00:01
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rerwin, can you send me v2.0.4 by private message? You will need to gzip the file before attaching it to the message.
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Posts: 1953
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Mon 01 Oct 2007, 11:41
Post subject: dhcpcd
I have sent the requested dhcpcd 2.0.4 by PM.
In my previous post, I added a section suggesting that the "I" option be added to the net-setup.sh script, to specify the special meaning of it -- null means "use MAC address" instead of a string to be used as clientID. However, I just now tried that with 1.3.22 and saw a bizarre consequence. So, please ignore my suggestion and leave net-setup as is.
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Posted: Tue 02 Oct 2007, 07:28
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rerwin, dhcpcd-2.0.4 is now available here
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Posts: 12
Location: Panama City Beach, Florida
Posted: Tue 02 Oct 2007, 23:28
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Subject description: dhcpcd/browser redirection to login
I would like to possibly add something to this thread regarding dhcpcd, if I may.
I had posted a problem with browser redirection to a login page on an open wireless hotspot. Problem had started with Puppy 2.17.1
After reading the excellent tempestuous and rerwin posts, I installed dhcpcd-1.3.22 pet into Puppy 2.17.1, 2.20alpha, and 3.00beta, and the browser would redirect to a login page.
However, dhcpcd 2.0.4 pet would not redirect the browser to a login page.
Would like to thank tempestuous and rerwin for their excellent work.
Hope this info helps a little.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
(two times the) Laptop Lunches fun
The culprit was a Windows update that had just been done prior. Apparently there are tons of Windows users who have had massive computer crashes following this latest update. "The Black Screen of Death" they call it. Be warned! I am hugely disgruntled over that whole thing - mega zillion dollar company's booboo causing mayhem for all its peon customers...do you think they will do anything to make their error right? Ha, yeah, me neither. *grumble grumble*
On to some fun stuff. Two Laptop Lunches for my two littles. These were from a week or so ago...right before aforementioned computer distress.
A bit of fun news, we found our missing pink Laptop Lunches box! I had hidden it from myself on top of the kitchen cabinets. My search up there turned up all sorts of treasures I had forgotten about. Like stocking stuffers that never made it out of Christmas last year. Oh well, 'tis the season (again) after all!
Paige's Laptop Lunch contained:
- two homemade granola bites and a mini container of sunflower kernels
- strawberries with cute lion pick (open up and say "ahh!")
- golfish crackers
- banana and peanut butter soft tacos (with raisins, too)
The banana/raisin/peanut butter tacos are in the container that comes with it's own sealing lid, ensureing that the rest of the food doesn't absorb the banana scent & flavor, which can be a problem with cut bananas in a bento box.
Tyler had almost the same lunch.
He had blackberries instead of strawberries (and no pick because I'm not about to give that crazy two-year-old a sharp stick), and I rolled his tortillas to be more of a wrap than a taco. This made them easier to hold and stuff in his mouth. :)
I ordered the little cases for sunflower kernels and the matching picks from ATFS. Hmm, speaking of stocking stuffers.... :)
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Do you have any lunch bag recommendations? I have the laptop lunch box for both kids and we love them. However, I just purchased a Lunchbots thermal container for soups, etc. and it will not work at all with the laptop bag/carrier. I'm looking for something that would work with the laptop as well as with the thermal container. Thanks! Tanya
- November 30, 2011 at 10:12 AM
- heather said... [Reply to comment]
LOVE the taco idea! I'm using that soon
- November 30, 2011 at 10:28 AM
- Giggly Girls said... [Reply to comment]
Cute!! My daughter would go nuts for a pb taco.
Bummer on the computer mess. Haven't have had any of those issues since we switched to macs. Woot!
- November 30, 2011 at 11:02 AM
- Summer said... [Reply to comment]
These lunches are so cute! Thanks for sharing!
- November 30, 2011 at 11:25 AM
How do you keep the goldfish crackers from getting squishy from the moistness of the other food? Is moistness even a word? lol
- November 30, 2011 at 2:18 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
I don't actually have a lunchbag recommendation! I've been using a small canvas tote for when we use the Laptop Lunches, but that's not ideal for school. I've been actively looking for a suitable lunchbox for LL for awhile. I know the Crocodile Creek lunchboxes would work (see here)- http://amzn.to/sCKNH8
And based on the measurements, Olive Kids should fit. I absolutely adore the mermaid one, though it would be more practical for me to get a gender neutral one. Dilemma! http://amzn.to/uyGaYF
- November 30, 2011 at 3:50 PM
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Giggly Girls, I am sooo going Mac and not looking back! My husband scored a desktop for a song, but it needs a little TLC to get up and running. Should work out really well, though! Meanwhile, I will be saving my pennies so that when this laptop of mine bites the dust for good I'll be able to get an apple laptop.
Anonymous - we don't have soggy cracker issues. That used to be a problem back when I tried packing lunch the night before (back when my oldest was in Kindergarten), so I just pack in the morning now and everything is still nice and fresh at lunchtime. :) Sometimes if the lunch gets too cold it can cause condensation to form in the container that can lead to damp crackers - maybe that's something to consider?
- November 30, 2011 at 3:54 PM
- Jenn @ BentoForKidlet said... [Reply to comment]
Haha, my mom was always notorious for forgetting to put out all of the stocking stuffers. In the summer she would be looking for something and pull out goodies! :D
I love the idea of the peanut butter banana tacos! I need to try these out and see if Kidlet will like :D
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Gov. Kenny Guinn rejected a call Friday for a special session to deal with a cap on property taxes, saying it can be addressed at the beginning of the 2005 legislative session.
"This action will save taxpayers money by not calling a special session," the governor said in a statement.
"Local officials, Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio and Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins assured me that we can properly deal with this issue during the regular session with no penalty to property owners, Guinn said.
"This is a complicated issue that legislators have assured me they will study and address as soon as the session begins in February," the governor said.
Guinn spokesman Greg Bortolin said Thursday that calling a special session could have a chaotic effect on the campaign season, since lawmakers up for re-election would have to suspend fund-raising for up to two weeks before and after a special session.
The special-session request came from state Sen. Ann O'Connell, R-Las Vegas, and Assemblyman David Brown, R-Henderson. They said Minority Leader Lynn Hettrick, R-Gardnerville, also supports the session to impose a 6 percent cap on annual property tax increases.
O'Connell said the 6 percent cap, first proposed by Clark County Assessor Mark Schofield, needs to be implemented quickly. Waiting until the 2005 session may be too late to head off big tax increases for homeowners, she said.
Enacting the cap now also would give local governments, which fund much of their budgets from property taxes, the opportunity to budget based on the new limits, O'Connell said.
Hettrick said if the Legislature waits until next year and tries to head off big property tax increases taking effect July 1, then rollbacks would be necessary, creating huge problems for county assessors and local government budgets.
Guinn said there would be time to address the issue before county assessors compile tax rolls in March.
The proposed cap would limit the growth of a total property tax bill to 6 percent per year no matter how much of an increase in property value had occurred.
Currently there's a 6 percent growth cap on only about a third of the various tax rates that determine a property tax bill, the rates that support a governing entity's operating budget. Not covered by the existing cap are the tax rates for the support of such things as schools, bond redemption, state capital improvements or municipal pools.


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DURHAM — The Spaulding High School boys basketball team wants to use the Bobcat Invitational tournament to improve its game for when the regular season resumes on Jan. 4.
Timberlane is one team that is well aware how good the Red Raiders are already.
The Red Raiders were all over the Owls on Saturday afternoon, jumping out to an early lead and not looking back in a 78-49 rout in the final round of pool play at Oyster River High School.
"We're hoping to improve on everything," said Spaulding senior guard Seth Fogg. "We went over our zone in the second half and we got a little better in the zone today."
Spaulding led 33-6 at the end of the first quarter and 46-21 at halftime. Matt Colucci led the Red Raiders with 15 points, while Mark Leahy scored 12 and Nick MacGregor and Anthony Ciccotelli added 10 apiece. Dominic Paradis scored nine.
Spaulding will play Division I rival Winnacunnet tonight for the tournament championship.
"We want to get better," Spaulding's Charlie Nevejans said. "Improve our chemistry. We started off hot today. We took a lot of shots and our defense was pretty good."
The Red Raiders scored with relative easy from inside the paint and from long range. MacGregor opened the scoring with a 3-pointer, and back-to-back treys 16 seconds apart by Leahy gave Spaulding an early 15-2 lead and prompted Timberlane to call their first timeout.
"We're trying to get a look at a lot of different people," Spaulding coach Tim Cronin said. "We got some guys in the game to see how deep we go."
After a jumper by Timberlanes Mitchell McDonald temporarily stopped the bleeding, Spaulding closed out the first period on an 18-2 run, which included buckets from five different Red Raiders. A 3-pointer by Colucci made it 25-4. Ciccotelli scored four points in the paint during the run.
"We have experienced big guys from last year," Cronin said. "So our scoring in the paint is a strength. That's what we try to do early in the game, get the ball inside. We wanted to get off to a good start and we accomplished what we wanted to do early. That set the tone for everything else."
It was Spaulding's second win over the Owls in a span of a little more than two weeks. The Red Raiders were a 63-43 winner in Plaistow when the two teams met on Dec. 14 for the season opener. Spaulding is 3-0 in D-I while Timberlane is still searching for its first win.
"If we're going to get better, let's play the best," first-year Timberlane coach Jeff Bauman said. "They're certainly one of the better teams, at least in Division I. They certainly cause some matchup problems. Paradis is going to be a matchup nightmare for many teams. They came out hitting shots and we were buried."
Timberlane's Pat Mahoney led all scorers with 17 points.
Timberlane put up more of a fight in the second quarter, and actually outscored the Red Raiders 15-13. The teams alternated baskets to start the third, but Spaulding ended the frame on an 8-3 run and led 63-33 after three stops.
The Owls ended the game on an 8-0 run to account for the final score, but that was after a Michael Bellio layup gave Spaulding its biggest lead of the night, 78-41 with just over three minutes to play.
The Red Raiders are looking forward to their matchup with Winnacunnet, which is 2-1 in D-I and whom the Red Raiders host in a regular-season matchup on Jan. 15.
"It's going to be a good matchup," Fogg said. "They always give us a challenge."
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SPAULDING (78) — Bellio 1-0-2, Leahy 4-2-12, Gray 1-3-6, Berry 2-0-5, Nevejans 3-0-6, Paradis 3-3-9, Paquette 0-0-0, Connelly 0-0-0, Fogg 1-0-3, Colucci 6-0-15, MacGregor 4-0-10, Warren 0-0-0, Ciccotelli 5-0-10. Totals: 30-8-78.
TIMBERLANE (49) — Mahoney 8-0-17, Donnelly 1-0-2, Johnston 3-0-8, Sickel 1-0-2, Perkins 0-0-0, McDonald 4-0-8, Nelson 1-1-3, Manthorn 1-2-5, Faucher 0-0-0, Murphy 0-0-0. Totals: 20-5-49.
Spaulding (2-0) 33 13 17 15 — 78
Timberlane (0-2) 6 15 12 16 — 49
3-pointers: T-4 (Mahoney, Johnston 2, Manthorn); S-10 (Leahy 2, Gray, Berry, Fogg, Colucci 3, MacGregor 2).


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-Several members of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's women's tennis team have earned post-season Little East Conference honors.
Freshmen Angela Pollard (Portsmouth, RI/Portsmouth HS) and Allison Furtado (Fairhaven, MA/Fairhaven HS) earned first team All-Conference honors at number three doubles. Senior Amy Lopes (Dartmouth, MA/Dartmouth HS) earned second team All-LEC honors at number one singles, Pollard was second team at number six singles, Lopes and junior Alexa Fiorita (Reading, MA/Reading HS) were named second team at number one doubles, and freshmen Nicole Pelletier (Swansea, MA/Case HS) and Elizabeth Cignoli (Springfield, MA/Cathedral HS) were named second team at number two doubles. Pelletier was named LEC Rookie of the Year.
Pelletier went 8-5 in singles, 5-5 at number two and 3-0 at number one while filling in for Lopes,. She was 4-4 in LEC play, while reamed with Cignoli; she was 8-3 in doubles, 7-2 at number two and 1-1 at number one, and 5-1 against LEC foes. Pollard and Furtado were 9-2 in doubles, 6-0 in the LEC. Lopes was 8-1 in singles, 6-1 against LEC opponents. Pollard was 12-1 in singles, 7-1 in the LEC, and 5-0 while playing at a higher position that number six. Lopes and Fiorita were 8-1 in doubles, 5-0 in the LEC, and Pelletier and Cignoli were 8-3 in doubles, 5-1 in LEC play.
The Rookie of the Year honor was UMD's second in three years. Kelsey Grossmann was named Rookie of the Year two years ago, when the Corsairs went to the NCAAs.
"I thought the honors were well-deserved," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Ralph Perry. "The league was very competitive this year, and our team performed extremely well. I was glad to see Nicole named Rookie of the Year; she moved up several times and played very well when some of our people were out of the lineup. In doubles, our players learned to work together, and did a nice job complementing each other. We have a good group coming back. The future looks bright, and I'm looking for us to have an excellent season next year:"
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SLAM! Wrestling's Blaine van der Griend goes through The Undertaker's undefeated streak at WrestleMania, one match at a time.
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The event: WrestleMania 13
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The result: Win over Psycho Sid, claims WWF World title; WrestleMania record, 6-0
"Psycho" Sid Vicious is certainly no stranger to WrestleMania main events. In fact his last WrestleMania appearance was quite memorable, as he not only had to worry about losing his World Wrestling Federation Championship, but also had to concern himself with ending The Undertaker's undefeated streak, which was no easy task. But it seemed like nothing bothered him.
"I looked at WrestleMania as just another pay-per-view," Sid said. "There really wasn't a lot of pressure going into it, because we have Raw four times a month also and then one pay-per-view a month. I didn't really feel a lot of pressure, because less people are watching the pay-per-views than the TV."
Many will recall that the WrestleMania 13 card changed directions several times before it was finalized. Actually the card was only finalized about a month before the event. Shawn Michaels, who was originally supposed to work the main event against Bret Hart, was out with a knee injury, just after he delivered the infamous "lost my smile" promo and relinquished the title.
Hart then won the title at the following pay-per-view in a four-way battle royal, only to drop the belt to Sid the next night on Raw, after interference by "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. It was then decided that Hart would work with Austin at the pay-per-view, while Sid would main event against The Undertaker. And Sid had no problem with this, as like many others, he had a tremendous amount of respect for Taker.
"Mark was a regular and easy going guy," Sid said. "He was a nice guy."
Prior to his WWF stint, Sid spent the early part of his career in Japan and at one point, he competed under a mask as Lord Humongous, but the gimmick never really took off. His wrestling name derives from the famous rock star Sid Vicious of Sex Pistols fame.
After being signed by World Championship Wrestling in 1989, Sid formed a tag team with Dan Spivey, called The Skyscrapers, who were managed by current Smackdown General Manager Teddy Long.
Sid was removed from the team due to injury, and was coincidentally replaced by his WrestleMania 13 opponent The Undertaker, who was then known as "Mean" Mark Callous.
One of the high points in Sid's career was being a member of The Four Horsemen, which was again short-lived. But Sid was the powerhouse of the stable.
Sid first came to the WWE in 1991 (then known as Sid Justice) and was immediately pushed to the top of the heap, as he main evented his first WrestleMania the following year against Hulk Hogan.
His next run in WCW was very forgettable. But he was positioned for a run with the title, until a violent altercation with Arn Anderson changed those plans.
Sid spent a brief period in the mid '90s, working in the USWA, but would soon return to the WWE in 1995 as Shawn Michaels' bodyguard. He turned on Michaels shortly afterwards and then began feuding with the WWE's top star Diesel (Kevin Nash).
After a brief absence, Sid returned to the company in the summer of 1996, and almost immediately won the title from Michaels, only to drop it back to the Heartbreak Kid two months later. However, because of Michaels' injury, Sid was able to win the belt back just in time for WrestleMania.
The finish of the WrestleMania match came when Bret Hart provided a distraction, allowing The Undertaker to take full advantage with the Tombstone and pick up his sixth WrestleMania victory.
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North Korea pulls missiles from launch site
Two Musudan intermediate-range missiles have been packed up and taken away from their launch site on the east coast of North Korea, which U.S. intelligence has been monitoring for the past several weeks, CBS News correspondent David Martin reports.
These are mobile missiles so the fact that they've left one launch site doesn't mean they can't be moved to another and fired with little or no warning, Martin reports.
The movement of the missiles away from the launch site coincides with the end of U.S.-South Korea exercises and the beginning of the spring planting season in the North when much of the military goes back to the farm, Martin reports. It also comes just a few days before President Obama's summit with South Korea's new president.
Whatever the reason, Pentagon spokesman George Little, who would not confirm that the missiles have been moved, said "what we have seen recently is a provocation pause."}
South Korean President Park Geun-hye told CBS News' Margaret Brennan on Monday that South Korea will not stand for any provocations from North Korea, no matter how small.
"We will make them pay," Park said.
The last seven South Koreans stationed at a jointly run factory park in North Korea pulled out Friday, silencing the complex for the first time since it was launched nine years ago in a seemingly distant era of reconciliation.
The complex in the town of Kaesong, just north of the Koreas' heavily fortified border, was the rivals' only remaining symbol of rapprochement. It had employed more than 53,000 North Korean workers and hundreds of South Korean managers until last month, when Pyongyang started gradually blocking its operations.
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The last seven South Koreans left after negotiating taxes and the back salaries of North Korean workers. Their departure leaves the Koreas with virtually no official communication channel.
It also could spell the end of an experiment that many saw as a bridge between the divided Koreas that was meant to help pave the way for a future unified Korea by proving that workers from two polar opposite economic systems could collaborate. Through both liberal and conservative governments in Seoul, Kaesong survived past tensions, including attacks blamed on North Korea in 2010 that killed 50 South Koreans.
A former South Korean official who headed the group that negotiated with the North on wages said he repeatedly called for the resumption of operations at Kaesong during the talks. Hong Yang-ho told reporters he expected future discussions but didn't elaborate.
The withdrawal removes one of the last points of contact between the Koreas, which are still technically in a state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with a cease-fire, not a peace treaty. Seoul had used phone lines connected to a South Korean-run management office at Kaesong to exchange messages with North Korea.
As tensions between the countries soared early last month, North Korea suspended operations at Kaesong, barring South Korean factory managers and trucks carrying supplies from entering the park. It later withdrew the North Koreans working at 123 South Korean companies in Kaesong's special economic zone.
Amid a weekslong torrent of threats, including North Korean warnings of impending nuclear and missile strikes, the Kaesong shutdown was the country's most significant expression of anger over South Korean-U.S. military drills that ended last Tuesday and U.N. sanctions imposed last month over a February nuclear test, North Korea's third. The North has somewhat eased that warlike rhetoric of late and shown tentative signs of willingness to talk.


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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh and Jean Dujardin are confirmed to be presenters at Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards show in Los Angeles.
Also set to hand out prizes are Kevin Bacon, Tina Fey, John Krasinski and Kyra Sedgwick, ceremony Executive Producer Jeff Margolis announced Monday.
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Documentary filmmaker Chantal Akerman traveled to the American South to make a film on life in the land that informed and influenced William Faulkner and James Baldwin, but shortly after she arrived, a shocking story began to dominate the headlines. In Jasper, Texas, James Byrd Jr., an African-American man, was brutally beaten by three white men, and then chained to the back of a truck and dragged three miles to his death. The focus of Akerman's film shifted dramatically, and Sud/South explores the reactions of people in Jasper to the this heinous crime, ranging from an emotional memorial service at a black church to a local lawman who wants people to know race is not a problem in Jasper, at least not compared to the economy. The film also looks into the actions of organized hate groups and the impact racism has had on this community in the past. Sud/South was shown as part of the Directors Fortnight series at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.


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As a woodwind doubler with more than 20 years of collegiate teaching and performing experience, I have created this website as a resource to assist aspiring woodwind multi-instrumentalists. Based on research published in "Selected Pedagogical Practices of College Instructors of Flute, Clarinet and Saxophone, Indiana University, 1997, the site also reflects many years of practical woodwind doubling experience.
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Special Report: NASCAR TV In Crisis
A while back, The Daly Planet wrote about the the way in which TV stations, regional sports networks, and cable TV networks were treated by the NASCAR's "gate-keeper" of video, called NASCAR Images. This company, located in Charlotte, NC, is the arm of NASCAR that enforces the tight restrictions placed on the TV and media here in the US. It is no coincidence that NASCAR Images also produces television shows for distribution to the very same TV outlets.
Prior to the existence of NASCAR Images, there were many regional TV shows that promoted the sport of NASCAR around the nation. These were usually produced by "local guys." They focused on drivers from the area and used footage taped directly off-the-air to show race highlights and driver interviews. Needless to say, no one got rich off these shows. However, they gave NASCAR its character, regional flair, and had a loyal fan following.
When NASCAR gathered the television rights to its races years ago, it also decided to buy the old Sunbelt Video in Charlotte and create NASCAR Images. Once established, NASCAR Images and its corporate partner, NASCAR Digital Images, released the new guidelines that all TV and media outlets must obey when using NASCAR footage. These restrictive guidelines immediately priced the existing TV shows out of business. Just like that, NASCAR wiped the local, regional, and national TV racing shows off the face of the planet. They have never returned.
Today, years later, these restrictive guidelines still prohibit TV networks from attempting to produce NASCAR-related shows. NASCAR Images prices the footage of the racing, and the drivers, at a premium. Even the rights to shoot video footage during a race at the racetrack itself are controlled by NASCAR Images. If that is the way NASCAR believes it should work, that's fine. But, something has thrown a wrench into their plans, and that my friends, is the internet.
Right now, there is only one daily NASCAR show on only one TV network in the entire US. It airs at 6:30 PM Eastern time on ESPN2. Fans can either watch it, tape it, or miss it. This one show, produced solely by ESPN, is the daily face of NASCAR on TV. In the meantime, there are currently 13,200 videos available right now on YouTube.com with the NASCAR tag. They include the final laps and post-race interviews of the 2007 Daytona 500 lifted directly from NASCAR on Fox. Purchased from NASCAR Images, this same footage would force you to sell your car to pay the bill. And, YouTube.com is just one of many sites with NASCAR video.
Some fans turn to NASCAR.com for video content. They are surprised to learn it is a private company run by Turner Interactive in Atlanta, GA. Its not really NASCAR, but another licensed product that is a source of revenue for NASCAR. NASCAR.com currently features a pretty young lady who hosts a new video each day, and they have a small archive of video content. This is the official NASCAR website...can you believe it? A licensed, for-profit, third-party "hosted" business located in Georgia.
Now, let's take a stroll through the real home of NASCAR TV. Simply by using the Google search engine on the blog function, any user can find a wide selection of NASCAR video of any type available for free. Some sites, like NASCARblog.org, feature a huge amount of video that would easily cost TV stations and networks hundreds of thousands of dollars just to use...once. Currently, there are 853 videos of NASCAR action on this one amateur website alone. Can you see the point I am trying to make? While NASCAR vigorously guards the video footage in the "vault" in Charlotte, thousands of fans are simply editing and posting their own NASCAR TV shows each and every day all over the internet. Does this make any sense?
Even at the smaller sites like nascarfans.wetpaint.com the "video of the week" is the final two laps of Cup at Bristol. It is complete with the audio portion of the NASCAR on Fox commentary. Fox paid millions for the exclusive rights to this race, and NASCAR Images owns the rights to this footage twenty-four hours after the event is over. If a TV station, cable network, or broadcast network even approached NASCAR Images about purchasing this footage for use, they would have to lead with their checkbook. This is the NASCAR way.
So, here we are in April of 2007. We have one NASCAR daily show on the air for thirty minutes a day...not in primetime. We have no weekly racing shows. No magazine shows on cable networks each week. Not one live fan call-in show dedicated to NASCAR on TV nationwide. SPEED has Inside NEXTEL Cup, and some weekend support programs like RaceDay and Victory Lane, two of our favorites. But, that is not the point of this column.
The struggle right now is between the conventional media, television, and the new media, the internet. As I wrote in my last column, it appears that NASCAR Images still has "dial-up." NASCAR needs to loosen the reigns on cable and network television in the US, or face a continuing migration of NASCAR fans onto the internet. Pretty soon, the only need for TV networks will be for the races themselves. With DirecTV's "Hot Pass" and the other pay-per-view in-car packages, that network audience has already eroded significantly.
How many of you listen to the radio broadcast of the race on your computer while you watch the video from the TV networks? If the video of the race was online, would you need to turn-on your TV at all on Sundays? OK, I agree that the Jimmy Spencer pre-race hair check is mandatory. But, other than that? So, many of you are already actively involved in the migration to on-line NASCAR TV.
Remember SpeedWeek, This Week in NASCAR with Eli Gold, Raceline, Prime Time Motorsports, and the other mid-week NASCAR shows? Remember when SPEED used to replay the Cup race from Sunday during the week in a shorter version? Were you a fan of NBS 24/7 or Totally NASCAR? All this TV content has gone missing because of the inability of NASCAR Images to define its role.
Meanwhile, the 13,200 videos on YouTube.com just sit there, calling your name.
10 comments:
- Anonymous said...
You make a terrific point, but it's all becoming moot anyway. NASCAR racing today, with the Chase, and especially the COT, isn't worth a damn. Fans are turning away because of high ticket prices and too many commercials, but that's just icing. The 'product' is ruined.
- April 9, 2007 at 2:37 AM
- Anonymous said...
The greed of Nascar (Brian France) has been a significant factor in the decline of ratings and attendance. Nascar has acquired the rights to everything associated with Nascar...including the die cast business, which I read was also down significantly last year. everyone understands that a business must make money to survive...but when it comes at the expense of the core product and those who have spent years supporting it, you will inevitably alienate those you depend on for those profits.
- April 9, 2007 at 6:19 AM
- Anonymous said...
I went to my first Daytona 500 in 1978. At the time I felt lucky to be able to go even though auto racing in general, and NASCAR in particluar, got little or no national coverage. Now if I want to continue going to Daytona, or any other NASCAR race, I have to buy a multi-day package of tickets. For a while NASCAR was the "sport de-jour." That status started eroding about three years ago. Long live local dirt track racing.
- April 9, 2007 at 8:22 AM
- Anonymous said...
I was watching commercials and and a stock car race broke out. Has anyone heard of picture in picture. Every other sport takes time outs for commercials so nothing is missed. Races keep going. Please use PIP during commercials. I have been a race fan for 45 years and I am losing interest. I cannot sit indoors on a beautiful day for Nascar anymore.
- April 9, 2007 at 9:32 AM
- Anonymous said...
I still get frustrated when I think about how Nascar killed RPM2Nite. Nascar had just moved to Fox/NBC because they wanted to expand their exposure. Yet, they refused to let RPM2Nite use any video. I knew at that moment that Nascar was going to start downhill within a few years. We want exposure, but we are not going to let a popular daily racing show use our footage? Bonehead thinking. I know they were trying to help their new broadcast partners, but these are the people who gave use Nascar Nation. Every time I watch a Nascar race, I become a bigger IRL fan.
- April 9, 2007 at 12:56 PM
- Steadicam Clay said...
I have been so frustrated by the NASCAR TV/Video/Images/Radio situation for so long that I barely know where to begin...
NASCAR on TV: The now ancient history multi-billion dollar "new" TV deal where NASCAR was going to air all of the races on network television. By choice, I don't see any need to pay for commercial TV, or the need to have access to 500 channels... the three networks and PBS is more then enough television for me... But my excitement over the prospect of getting to watch the races without having to leave home. Perhaps it wasn't entirely NASCAR's fault, but look at what the network's did. They moved many of the races deemed unfit (or whatever) for broadcast to their "sister" cable stations. So maybe I'm the only NASCAR fanatic left on Earth that doesn't buy into the cable or satellite thing, but what do they expect me to do about it... suscribe to cable? Ok, so I'm going to pay what... forty plus dollars a month to watch an hours worth of billboards on parade sandwiched in-between two and a half hours of advertising? Ok, so I exaggerate the racing vs advertising time on the screen thing, but exaggeration is all I've got left, and the deep sense that I couldn't spend money more un-wisely.
NASCAR on Radio: I understand that I can get all the NASCAR I could ever eat by paying for satellite radio. Are you kidding me? Pay for radio! In my opinion, the concept is absurd and downright un-American. "December 7, 1941, a day that will live in infamy... Brought to you by Sirius Satellite Radio!" But, guess what, just finding and/or tuning in a NASCAR race is a lot of work and often more trouble then it's worth. First you have to know if the race is on the MRN or PRN network (which really isn't that difficult to figure out as long as you know the name of the company which owns the particular race track where the race is being held that week, or you know the name of the owner of the company that owns the race track where the race is being held that week). Then, you'll have to know if it's AM or FM. If it's AM, you're pretty much out of luck. The quality of AM radio has gotten so poor, I suppose due to high tension electric lines, solar flares, and my wife's vacuum cleaner, there is so much noise and clatter, cross talk and static, that it's unbearable. If it's FM the quality is better, but my experience has taught me that you have to know several things first before you can luck into finding the race. Knowing the number on the dial, as in 105.3, might help a little, but it seems to me that that number changes constantly, or at least season to season. And, as silly as it may sound, you also have to know that a pre-race show or race is on, as in, "I know for a fact that there is a race on right now." I don't try tuning in an hour or even half hour early unless I'm absolutely certain what time the pre-race show started ("Hey, was that EST or CST?") Otherwise, I find myself endlessly dialing up and down, up and down, one station at a time, listening for some clue as to its whereabouts. As for clues... if I hear an AD for an auto-parts store it's worth a thirty second pause. If the AD for auto-parts is followed by the voice of Dale, Jr., talking about pants, that's worth another thirty seconds. If the AD about pants is followed by the voice of Richard Petty talking about snorting powdered aspirin up his nose... By God... that's it! I've found it! "Don't touch anything and back off immediately!"
NASCAR Images: Last season I decided that I had had enough with the flippant TV and radio situation, so I went to iTunes and purchased the "NASCAR Images" season long encapsulated race reviews/highlights. I would have preferred, and paid for, the entire race, but the price wasn't that bad, and it meant that I could watch at my leisure. Things were going along fine, each week a few days after the race, iTunes would automatically download the newest episode, and life was good. Then, about half-way through the season, suddenly and without notice or explanation, they changed the video format from low-resolution 4:3 TV aspect ratio to high-res 16x9 widescreen format. My poor old 500 MHZ Macintosh Cube refused to play them anymore, and became totally obsolete in the span of one day. This meant that the only way I was going to get to see the race re-caps, was if I spent a few hundred dollars to upgrade the CPU on my computer to something like 1.2 gigahertz. Ok, I know that someday I will have to upgrade my computer, but I don't appreciate being forced to do so. I went to the iTunes web site, not so much as to complain but to see if I could get low resolution versions. As far as I could tell, iTunes has no support for such a thing, so I googled NASCAR Images. At the time, NASCAR Images didn't even have a web site. All they had was one of those one page, "NASCAR Images Coming Soon" with no links to anything at all. Several weeks later I went back to the website, where it was, in fact, "now open". But, there was no information what-so-ever or links for Contact Information or Support for any of their products. Finally, I just gave up. I don't even think I ever downloaded the rest of the season.
On the other hand, the TV deal for this season is actually pretty sweet. Dover will be on free TV (when was the last time, if ever, that Dover got the chance to be on free TV) and I, for one, simply can't wait!
- April 9, 2007 at 3:58 PM
- RossmoorBob said...
My frustration with NASCAR race coverage is the total ignoring of cars outside the top ten unless they are in a wreck or in a battle with one of the "names." They are a couple of cars running this year and I couldn't even tell you what color they are based on tv coverage. With a 1/2 or more pre-race show, each qualifing car should at least be mentioned and shown.
- April 9, 2007 at 6:08 PM
- Anonymous said...
I can remember a day when you couldn't get tickets to certain NASCAR events, today you can virtually walk up on race day at most tracks and purchase. Texas cost me 115.00 each the first two years the race was held(today same tickets are 135.00), I've never been back. I did however discover how much more fun I had and how much less tickets were to an IRL race at Texas. I went the last two years the season finale was located there and had a blast. Driver introductions were conducted in the stands, fans were invited on the track after the race to meet the race winner, and surprisingly we got out of the track in under 30 minutes. They had about 50-60k people there, pretty good if you ask me, more than football games. NHRA drag racing is the same way. Drivers are accessible and friendly, every ticket is a pit pass, and it comes with yet again a reasonable ticket price, IRL 45.00, NHRA three day, 80.00, Nascar 135.00. hmmm. Not only are they squeezing the news shows out via price, they are doing the same thing with the fans. Last year I was losing interest in the sport after 20 years of watching it on tv, today I opt to spend my weekends watching CART, IRL, and NHRA....
- April 9, 2007 at 6:33 PM
- Anonymous said...
It seems that every year anymore, I become more.....choose your word ......disgusted, disappointed, disenfranchised with the coverage of Nascar on TV.
I am extremely unhappy this year with ESPN's coverage of the races. I don't care for their broadcasters, their coverage stinks, and I'm more than tired of the endless commercials!
I dearly miss the weekly programs that Speed TV used to have!
It's really sad to see the way that Nascar is heading. They are only going to continue to lose fans, both at the tracks and on TV if drastic changes aren't made soon. They're on a downhill trend and I don't see it changing in the foreseeable future.
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It seems that rsync is the de-facto standard for efficient file backup and sync in Unix/Linux.
Does anyone have any thoughts on why it wouldn't have caught on in the Windows world?
Why hasn't it become a universal 'protocol' for file sync?
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It seems that rsync is the de-facto standard for efficient file backup and sync in Unix/Linux.
Does anyone have any thoughts on why it wouldn't have caught on in the Windows world?
Why hasn't it become a universal 'protocol' for file sync?
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I would say mostly because people in windows are unaware of it. Rsync is a command-line utility that is consistent with the unix philosophy of having lots of small tools preinstalled. The windows philosophy is based around GUI applications that are all downloaded and installed separately. There is not a smooth integration spot where rsync would be obvious or make much sense, and running commands on a windows system is tedious at best.
Also, rsync really shines when its part of a larger application (say for consolidating and parsing logs), or as an automated archival system (implemented easily with a cronjob). Windows simply doesnt have the other tools in its ecosystem to make using rsync actually viable.
Finally, I would say that rsync is just too freaking complicated. Anyone I know who uses it regularly has a pre-set group of flags (mine is -avuz) that generally does what they want, but the man pages / documentation lists dozens of command-line switches, some of them amalgamations of other switches. For example (from the [man page][1]):
-a, --archive: archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X)
It is a quick way of saying you want recursion and want to preserve almost everything (with -H being a notable omission). The only exception to the above equivalence is when --files-from is specified, in which case -r is not implied.
Windows users generally expect, well, windows, and menus, and to have a single app be an all-in-one solution, not just an independent piece of a tool chain.
I'm suprised no-one has mentioned DeltaCopy, which is rsync packaged in a windows GUI. It can even install itself as an rsyncd-compatible service.
In my opinion, because there is no decent GUI.
Another argument may be that there is robocopy. Robocopy is missing many cool features that rsync offers, but in most situations robocopy is just sufficient for the job at hand.
I use the Cygwin rsync extensively and it works very well.
But ...
It is a bugger to install and configure. You have to do a full Cygwin install just to get one binary and three dlls, and it isn't obvious which three dlls are needed. How to run it as a service is not obvious and the command line syntax is complex. Non-nerds are like to give up very quickly.
Also it messes up permissions to the point where I always set cygwin=nontsec, and it regularly hangs. I understand the hang is a known problem with the Cygwin dll rather than rsync itself (which is not a criticism of the Cygwin guys. What they've achieved is little short of miraculous!).
Rsync is extremely useful if you do any sort of replication over WAN links, and it's on my todo list to write a native Win32 version. Sadly it's been on my todo list for several years and is no closer to the top. I don't think just writing a GUI wrapper is a big step forward as fails to address some of the fundamental problems with the Cygwin version.
If anyone is interested, http://www.ratsauce.co.uk/notablog/UsingRsync.asp describes the results of my many hours of pain getting Cygwin rsync to work on Windows.
I would say that for smaller computer to computer syncs, people are using Robocopy, SyncToy, or Foldershare (now Live Sync). For the large enterprise distributed multimaster file share scenarios, they are using Distributed File System (DFS). Those tools handle most sync scenarios just fine, leaving very little benefit to installing, learning, and using a recompiled *nix app on Windows.
What would your average Windows user use it for?
rsync is far less likely to be installed on machines one comes across in the Windows world while the Resource Kit with robocopy is often installed (or at least it's on an "approved" list of software that can be installed on a production system).
As others have pointed out, robocopy is generally more than adequate to skin whatever cat is at hand. It may not be quite as nice as rsync but it's a good tool.
Lack of GUI may be a factor but even though there's a front-end available for robocopy, I find that most folks figure out the robocopy switches needed and stick it in a .bat file.
I use robocopy in windows - which comes preinstalled in windows vista and windows 7, and is up to any backup situation I encountered so far.
My guess is that it simply doesn't have a GUI. For easy sync tasks Microsoft even offers Sync Toy, and rsync could do much more ...
For what it's worh, there is a perfectly functional rsync for Windows that does not need installation of Cygwin. I have been using it to backup different parts of my data to different drives. It is useful to exclude particular directories, but probably other utilities do it also.
Oh boy, you guys have obviously been missing the utility "Unison". I've been supporting some major US/EUR "realtime" infrastructures and I have to say everyone has very similar problems... how to replicate and be able to be active-active all the time... if you don't care about session persistence then this thing is the bomb... best thing I've found in solaris extras :-)
The easiest to use/install rsync GUI application I've found for Windows has been grSync.
(Screenshots: http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/screenshot.html)
If it were more popular, maybe rsync would be used more.
I belive rsync can be used under cygwin in windows world :) cygwin is easy to install and use, however for ordinary users who love GUIs it is not very common. so we get two barriers:
1) lack of GUI frontend
2) even if there was a GUI frontend in tcl/tk for example - the need to install cygwin is a barrier.
and rsync is not proprietary software which wants to sell itself and therefore struggles to eliminate barriers before potential customers. As Joel sais: eliminating one barrier doubles your userbase. So here we have barriers for windows users - as a consequence small userbase on Windows platform.
I use robocopy for rsync-like behavior in windows.
Basically, I wrote a backup.bat file that I have on an external drive. I regularly run the file to back my desktops up to the external drive. Then I store the external drive in a fireproof safe.
We built a GUI for Rsync and Windows.
The computer/backup server you connect to needs to be running SSH and Rsync.
Let me know if you have questions by commenting on this answer.
Exact same reason
tar and
bzip2 are unheard of. It very much doesn't fit into Windows well. zipping a directory and shuttling it over SMB fits into Windows better, and seems almost as fast in numerous cases. That's not really my dream for a better world, but it's a reality to grapple with. Most all windows machines don't have any unix layer installed. Unlike, Mac OS X.
There are some newer rsync guis in development. One I came across recently through wikipedia is yintersync. It looks pretty comprehensive as a gui for rsync on windows and rather neatly also supports shadow copies for replicating live files.
I have recently tested this on my work dr system with good results. It has a built in scheduler and email reports. This may help rsync catch on finally to the windows crowd
The lack of gui is not really a problem. xacls, robocopy, net, sc are very usefull and don't have any gui. I believe that if rsync is not used, it is more due to the fact that: