[clue-tech] My questions--Installfest Recap

[Dave Maddox]

Roy J. Tellason a écrit :
> On Saturday 24 January 2009 09:00:38 pm Charles W Downing wrote:
>   
>> Gang,
>>
>> About 3:00, when I was getting ready to leave, Dave Wilcox asked me if I
>> had solved all of my problems.  I told him no, but I exaggerated.
>>
>> When I got home I remembered that I have a USB hub on my desk, into
>> which I have had my external hard drive plugged.  When I plugged into a
>> USB port on my laptop and did a backup, it took about 30 minutes instead
>> of 9 hours!  Had it not been for my trip to DeVry today, I may never
>> have learned that lesson.
>>
>> Thanks for being there.
>>     
>
> Are you saying that the 30 minutes vs. 9 hours was because of the difference 
> between running it directly vs. running it through a USB hub?
>
> Wow.
>
>   
USB 2.0 is a lot faster, could be the hub is not supporting it? Also, I 
keep forgetting and trying to copy from one USB device to another using 
different ports on my laptop which share a data path internally. It 
takes forever, too.

I got to drop by today for a little while just to meet and observe and I 
think in the future when I am trying something new and adventurous I 
will bring it there, although all-night coffee-fueled solo sessions 
googling for each obscure error message can be fun...

Re: another thread, I had an Ubuntu laptop, standard wifi manager 
whatever it is, I had no problem with the WiFi there. I and at least one 
other didn't try WEP 'hex' at first, though, might be the source of some 
failures.

Dave (one of the many)