Thieving posties
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From: Conor on 22 Jun 2010 15:43 On 22/06/2010 19:30, Peter Ceresole wrote: > I have to send somebody 300MB worth of slides. They have a pissy > Blueyonder account so the largest attachment they can receive is about > 25MB. Yousendit want to charge nine bucks a month for the ability to > send a message that size. So I bought a cheap Peckham Council 2GB thumb > drive, wrapped it in a letter and sent it. And it arrived slit open and > empty. Bastards. > > As she lives in London, cheapest and safest is to use my bus pass and > deliver it by sneakernet. Anybody got a better idea? Filezilla. Create a server on your computer. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk
From: Adrian on 22 Jun 2010 15:54 peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > As she lives in London, cheapest and safest is to use my bus pass and > deliver it by sneakernet. Anybody got a better idea? Post a CD.
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 22 Jun 2010 16:02 On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:39:22 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> I use www.transferbigfiles.com occasionally. > >But for 300MB, in London, I reckon it's still down to sneakernet. > >But thanks anyway. > >If I sent that kind of file regularly, I'd open a subscription- for >instance to Yousendid. But it's once a year at most... I'd misremembered the one above as free for that sort of size, rather than topping out at 100meg. Duh. Cheers - Jaimie -- 'Bother' to your simplistic linear numbering systems -- Nigel Hewitt, describing ukrs dive #100
From: Peter Ceresole on 22 Jun 2010 16:15 Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Post a CD. Nope. Obvious, and posties steal those too- or at least, they have done so to me in the past. When I say 'posties', I just mean 'somebody in the system'. I don't necessarily mean our local delivery people. -- Peter
From: Adrian on 22 Jun 2010 16:22
peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >> Post a CD. > Nope. Obvious, and posties steal those too- or at least, they have done > so to me in the past. I've never had a CD go missing or get broken. Not once. And I send and receive 'em regularly. |