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Interesting Links for 24-8-2011

• This Is Why Men Die Before Women
  (tags: funny photos men)
• Finally, an explanation for the price that Google paid for Motorola
  (tags: google patents software novell microsoft business)
• John Major wanted two-party alliance to take on Rupert Murdoch.
  (tags: media RupertMurdoch politics uk)
• Liberal prognosticatos more accurate than conservatives. Lawyers wrongest of all.
  (tags: TheFuture predictions politics economics)
• Why is Dutch drug use so low?
  (tags: netherlands drugs law usa)
• Zombie Engagement Photos. So awesome.
  (tags: zombies engagement relationships photos)
• What it's like to play online games as a grownup - I don't entirely agree. But I am amused.
  (tags: funny games webcomics gaming mmorpg)
• Facebook improves privacy options
  (tags: facebook privacy)

*sigh*

I have a new NAS box. I am currently copying over the files from the old NAS box. They both have gigabit ethernet connections, but sadly the switch they are plugged into is only 100MBit.

I started off copying the files from Windows, using drag/drop, but this proved to be a little slow (I assume that it was copying the files from NAS1->PC->NAS2). So I found this guide which showed me how to SSH into NAS2, and then use smbclient to pull the files direct from NAS1.

Which seems to be getting about 10MB/s. Which is 80MBit, and so probably about as fast as the switch can usefully manage.

Now I just have to leave it for 12 hours while all 400Gig of videos copies over...