On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 09:54 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote:
On 09/24/2010 08:37 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
On 24 September 2010 14:23, Timo Schoelertimo.schoeler@riscworks.net wrote:
Windows admins use a virtualized CentOS machine to copy files because their own tools are not able to handle copying a bigger amount of data. :)
Although I read the article with some amusement, I have to wonder what's wrong with rsync (has a Windows port, albeit somewhat slow with Cygwin implementation). His fallback is using cp which I found utterly incomprehensible
Until Cygwin's developers decide the join the rest of the window's universe in having an *uninstaller* it will remain "not installed - ever" on many people's systems, including mine.
+1. There are numerous things with Cygwin that are very messy. It avoid it at nearly all costs.
IMO, a windows system with Cygwin and Cygwin tools isn't really a Windows system anymore; it is an crippled and ugly hybrid.
It is completely unacceptable that it is happy to install, but that you have to *manually* rip it out piece-by-piece if you ever want to uninstall it.