atw: Re: Clone vs Clone



>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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