Rsync and VFat are not friends.

[elfs]

I'm too brainfrazzled to really do this much justice, but I'm just annoyed that my backup last night of my personal directory from the external brick to the new ThinkPad (ooh, shiny) didn't go nearly as well as I'd hoped. I got my editor up and running-- and none of my macros loaded. It turns out that doing a backup from my EXT3 to VFAT and then back to EXT3 via Rsync caused all kinds of unpredictable nonsense, mostly involving things that look to VFAT like normal 8.3 directories, and aren't supposed to be case sensitive (from M$'s point of view) but are (from Unix's point of view).

Sigh. More headaches.

I'm also annoyed that the build for X-Windows required libstdc++, but for some reason Gentoo thought that building libstdc++ required the installation of a compiler known to be broken. I was able to build it just fine without installing the broken compiler, "routing around" the problem, but there's no reason I should have to do that. I'm less annoyed (but more baffled) that LaTeX (a source-based desktop publishing program for WYSIWYM, and the program I use to turn my stories into dead tree editions), for no explicable reason I can imagine has MySQL as a dependency.

Comments

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

TeTeX depends on libwww. libwww, if you have mysql in your USE, depends on mysql.

What use libwww has for mysql is beyond me.

[woggie.livejournal.com]

Someday I hope to be as 1337 as you.

I notice some of the older Dos programs tend to like naming things in uppercase because, to them, there's no difference between uppercase and lower, so why should anyone ever use lowercase for anything?

It's only been within the last decade programs have finally stopped assuming the default case should be upper. I can't tell you how many times I looked for filename.jpg when it was actually filename.JPG. And this was with programs like Photoshop, fergawdsakes. There wasn't even an option to just use lowercase filename extensions.

Annoying.