More fun and games with rsync from WinXP direct to wyvern. In the past I’ve used a two-stage way of getting my photos to home. First copy them from the WinXP laptop to the Solaris box at work, then go home and transfer from Solaris to Linux. Both steps used rsync over ssh, both were successful. In the last couple of weeks I’ve dialled in from home in the morning, then tried to rsync files direct from the laptop to home, invariably it fails with:
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 188 bytes: phase “unknown":...
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at at /tmp/rsync-2.5.6/io.c(515)
There seems to be various bits of muttering about cygwin/rsync problems on the rsync website. I guess I’ll just do the two-step thing for now…
“And now for the News… or not. Owing to restructuring by VRN, there’s now no longer a news server at Monash. Definitely a cost saving to the university, it also might mean a few more hours worked by some staff, but most surely a loss of a resource that made life more bearable. Where will I get my aus.bicycle fix from now?
St George bank nonsense
St George has responded to my email . According to them it is not possible to pay any bills from a credit card through the Bpay system — I guess this means that either a) I’m hallucinating about the ones that worked, or that b) they’re full of crap.
