atw: Re: Clone vs Clone
- From: "Nikki Ward" <ezistep@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:42:01 +1000
>Nor do I see any great problem in referring to a "Ghosted image"....
Hi Peter, Brian, and fellow Austech writers...
Thank you for your input and wonderful banter that made me smile.. ah the
tangents... :)
At any rate... I think I will refer to the 'ghosted image' when it comes to
'breeding' clones... In this case we can't refer
to 'ghost' but rather 'the TinGed image (ghosted image)' [TinG - self
recursive acronym for This Is Not Ghost]
(The program actually refers to a 'Breeder CD-ROM' - perhaps I might follow
that through and produce
as someone said, our own lexicon.. nah, only joking about the lexicon)... but
more sensibly, use the 'Breeder CD-ROM to breed clones' ...does that sound
confusing to anyone?
Cheers
Nikki
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> From: peter.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:55:58 +1000
> Subject: atw: Re: Clone vs Clone
>
> Nikki:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:25:06 +1000, you wrote:
> > Hi there...
> >
> > Here's tricky one for y'all.
> >
> > I am presently writing a user manual for a Linux version of
> > 'Ghost'.. and I am battling with a 'Clone' concept
> >
> > I have to explain to the user that they can 'clone' a machine
> > (as in COPY the entire contents of a machine's hard disk drive)
> > versus they can also make clones from the 'cloned image' (As
> > in make a new machine based on the image that has been cloned
> > from another machine)
> >
> One way or another, it is probably important for your readers
> to understand that the "ghosting" is not the same as "copying" in the
> sense that most computer users might understand that latter term.
>
> (If you use a "COPY" or "cp" or "mv" command to get data from one disk to
> another,
> your chances of getting an identical second disk are miniscule, as you
> know. So there's a different concept involved.)
>
> This is why (as you may have gathered from a side thread) I don't see
> a great problem with using a term like 'clone' in this context. Nor do
> I see any great problem in referring to a "Ghosted image".... these are
> terms which system administrators have been using for some years,
> so they are already terms which are part of the language in one tribal
> group anyway..
>
> But I have the impression your difficulty arises from the further
> propagation of cloned images ... So one solution is to jump in
> whole-heartedly and start talking about second and third generations or
> generational images. Would that help ?
>
> In any event, propagation, replication and reproduction are all there
> as terms that I'd have no problem using in this context. Except for one
> thing... the nice thing about "clone" is that it's got one syllable.
> All good techies should value that.
>
> And of course, all clones are the same in the dark ... :-)
>
> Like ghosts.
>
> So there you are...
>
> HTH
>
> --Peter M
>
>
>
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>
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