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From: Rowland McDonnell on 23 Jun 2010 20:17 Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > 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. MacOS X provides a Web server by default - and I'm pretty sure ftp/sftp serving, too. Why add extra when it's not needed - or have I missed something? Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Chris Ridd on 24 Jun 2010 01:35 On 2010-06-23 21:56:32 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh said: > On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:39:40 +0100, thnews(a)poboxmolar.com.invalid (Tim > Hodgson) wrote: > >> Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: >> >>> On 2010-06-23 20:00:31 +0100, Tim Hodgson said: >>> >>>> D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> There are two things I don't like about it. >>>>> >>>>> One is that you need to put the items you want available on Dropbox to >>>>> be in your Dropbox folder. This means moving them out of their usual >>>>> place, where you'd like them to be. >>>> >>>> You can use aliases, though I think the original, rather than the alias, >>>> has to be the one in the DropBox folder. >>> >>> Backing up the alias would be *much* faster, and use less space as well. >> >> Look, it's been a long day, and...and... >> >> (I did have some vague idea about smart software that resolved aliases, >> but thinking it through...maybe not.) > > Does it work with softlinks? Hardlinks it certainly will, but that can > be a little limiting. I perhaps should have put a :-) after my sentence... -- Chris
From: The Older Gentleman on 24 Jun 2010 02:05 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > What I was asking about, you see, was about a way of doing this which > had been demonstrated safe-enough. No, you weren't. You didn't ask if anyone had actually *demonstrated* such a system. You asked for suggestions. You used the present tense, not the past. But carry on moving the goalposts if you want. -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com
From: The Older Gentleman on 24 Jun 2010 02:10 Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > 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. <Interested> I've got that on my work PC. Thought it was just ftp (which is all I use it for). How does it create a server? -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com
From: J. J. Lodder on 24 Jun 2010 03:05
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> 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? In cases like this I have created a temp user on my system, and given her FTP permission to a suitable directory in her user folder. You have to open port 21 for FTP, and tell her what your IP is. After that it is up to her, Jan |