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 ;)
-- Dmitry Olshansky
