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Floppies?
Authored by: Hedderik on Oct 16, '02 04:38:37PM

With all do respect, isn't this "tip" sort of similar of saying "I discovered that I can use floppies to share files between Windows and my Mac"? (Or, if one has a floppy-less Mac, an usb-disk)

Indeed, OS X comes with FTP and http servers, and indeed, one can use FTP and HTTP to transfer files from one system to another, but it's a bit far fetched to call this "sharing". (A bit like the misnomer of "automount" in OSX, which means "automatically mounting at boot up", instead of the more commonly used meaning "automatically (un)mounting when (no longer) necessary".)

- Hedderik.



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Floppies?
Authored by: filburt1 on Oct 16, '02 07:05:41PM

Henddrick: I'm talking 700 MB files, not 1.44 MB. Also it's not like I'll spend $40 for an external USB floppy drive and continue to support such a lame dead technology.



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Floppies?
Authored by: springroll on Oct 16, '02 07:22:21PM

With all due respect, it's not "all do respect".



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Floppies?
Authored by: Hedderik on Oct 17, '02 10:08:46AM

I'm sorry, I should have spellchecked better (but well, not everyone is a native English speaker), and probably also made more clear that I was ironic. I do understand that floppies are not very practical anymore, but this "tip" is so obvious, that I tried to made that clear by ridiculizing. A better example might have been to compare it to suggesting to use a keyboard for input instead of sending electrical signals directly.

I seems to me that the first comment is right on, this "tip" is not about sharing, but about "transfering" files, and suggesting to use the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to transfer files is a bit, well, euhm...

So, I probably should have refrained from commenting, but I cannot find a way to delete my old comment.

- Hedderik.



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