Ben Pope said:
ftp has been around since before the internet - it's likely to work. If
you're behind a firewall or being NAT'd you may need to use passive mode.
No, you said you need to get from your laptop to your school computer
(presumably the ones with the printers), I asked you if you could use a
network, you said they are connected to a network and that there are public
areas for you to connect, but that that wouldn't help you. I then said that
you could transfer the files (from your laptop, plugged into the public area
to the lab computer), using ftp, email or whatever.
Yes, I did say that. "Hooking up to the network in labs is tricky. (I've
obtained a connection once out of several tries with the same DNS and IP
settings.)" And let me clarify something. I would have to specifically go
out of my way to a public area (usually that's another building) to hook up
my laptop to the school's network and then email it to myself and then go
back to the computer lab with the printer and retrieve the email and print
it.
Instead all I have to do is go the printer lab, pop the floppy into the
laptop, copy the file, and put it in the school's computer, and print it
out. It's easy to accomplish in five minutes.
I didn't realise that you would follow that up with "I won't fiddle with any
software that will most likely fail".
If you have problems with ftp (Even microsoft have managed that in explorer)
then you're doing something wrong.
LOL. Oh I have no problems with FTP. You're quoting me out of context. That
sentence read "Five minutes from the deadline, I won't fiddle with any
software that will most likely fail (Murphy's law)." You missed the "five
minutes" part and "Murphy's law" I believe they change the meaning of that
sentence. Things generally fail exactly when you need them most.
The FTP implementation in Explorer is really bad, BTW. IE has problems with
slow or lagging FTP servers.
Well if you won't use networks or anything other than a floppy then clearly
a floppy is your best bet. I'm just saying it's possible.
I was stating reasons for not using certain things in that situation, not
condemning them. You're making me sound like some sort of floppy fanboy who
won't use anything but the floppy. I think you're missing my point. I have a
network at home that's been running for several years. I use FTP and SCP
regularly. I obviously use email as well. I just don't use these things in
the situation where I have five minutes to copy a file from my laptop to a
school computer to print it out.
I really want to use a usb keychain, but no school computers have rear
mounted usb ports. This means that I would have to either dive under the
desk or pull the computer out to get to the usb ports. Not very comfortable,
is it? If the computers had usb in the front, to hell with the floppy.
