Speeding up Firewire File Transfers?

Milo_Mindbender asks: "I've got a pretty common problem: copying a ton of files from an old Windows XP computer to a new one. After noticing how long transfers were taking over my 100mbps Ethernet, I hooked up a IEEE1394/Firewire cable and things were much faster. Strangely though, Windows is still only using about 10% of the cable's 400mbps bandwidth. Does anyone know any tips/tricks for speeding this up or any Shareware mass-file-copy tools that would be faster than Explorer/file sharing? Right now, the older machine is setup with Windows file sharing and the new machine is copying from it, neither machine is using much CPU and the disks are nowhere near their max speed. The number and size of the files might be what's slowing it down, since it's gigabytes of files in the 100-200k size range."

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[BrynM]

How do you write links like you did in "Magic Folders" and "Holding"? When I follow the URL: instructions it shows the whole URL. The /. help and FAQ does not cover this.

Pretty simple, it's just a regular HTML link. What you're doing is creating an "auto-link". The auto-link will just display an URL as a link (like http://slashdot.org/). What you want to do is look at the "Allowed HTML" section when you post. If you don't know how to use one of the HTML tags, just google it like this. Slashcode will put the domain name of the address in brackets next to the link automagically.

I write most of my comments in HTML and have done so for years now. Come to think of it, I can't remember a time when I posted without any HTML. For Example, here's the source code for the first paragraph of this comment (wrapped in <ecode> tags so you can see it):

<blockquote><em>How do you write links like you did in "Magic Folders" and "Holding"? When I follow the URL: instructions it shows the whole URL. The /. help and FAQ does not cover this.</em></blockquote>

<p>Pretty simple, it's just a regular HTML link. What you're doing is creating an "auto-link". The auto-link will just display an URL as a link (like <URL:http://slashdot.org>). What you want to do is look at the "Allowed HTML" section when you post. If you don't know how to use one, just google it like <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=html+tag+em"> this</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashcode">Slas hcode</a> will put the domain name of the address in brackets next to the link automagically.</p>

You'll find that the <em> (emphasis) tag surrounded by the <blockquote> tag is quite common when quoting what you are replying to. So much so that the CSS now seems to recognize it and do it's fancy(pants) formatting. I suspect blockquote is doing this doing this, but have been using the two tags together for so long now it's habit ;)

Like they say: "News for Nerds". ...And that's our /. HTML formatting lesson for today. Hope it helps.