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[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 24.05.2012 13:58, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> - There's a Vista laptop I sometimes borrow usage of. When transferring
> files with my XP machine, I used to use Win file sharing (always seemed to
> be good enough on XP<-->XP setups). It worked fine for awhile, and then one
> day without warning it just...stopped. I went through everything on both
> computers trying to figure it out, Googled, everything, and came up with
> nothing. So I switched to FTP. Problem solved. Eventually, I discovered
> (don't recall how) it was some automatic update on the Vista machine that
> fucked it all up. Great. Gotta love auto-updating software... :/
>

So true.

> - When my sister finally got fed up with Apple (just like I had before and
> my brother is starting to now), and replaced her MacBook with a Win7
> Lenoovo, I managed to accidentally win the glorius task of transferring all
> her data. SMB didn't fucking work...PERIOD. There was just no way. Took
> forever to figure that out, too. So I had to resort to FTP...which was
> *still* a world of hurt because her MacBook was a non-upgradable (don't
> remember why) 10.3 and I went though hell trying to find an FTP client that
> didn't require the 10.4 that she couldn't upgrade to (Aside from FTP
> specifically, this inability to upgrade or run anything so soon after buying
> it is part of why she got fed up with the Mac) And yes, I know it's Unix and
> therefore has FTP already, but I didn't want to fuck with cmd line FTP, and
> doing FTP through Finder just wasn't working (maybe it just didn't support
> it? I don't remember).
>
>

Yes, even FTP can't beat straightforward  "crack open this box and pull 
hdd out". I've been using it for years and haven't had any problem with 
it ;)


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Dmitry Olshansky