File Transfer Quotes

I don't know how to back up.

I played so long ago, I don't think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don't think they knew anything about it.

All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it.

I remember endless Apple v. Windows debates in the early '90s when I was in college. Macs were better machines, everyone said; the whole Office thing was a huge pain. It was difficult to transfer files between operating systems, and generally speaking, if you wanted to do Office stuff, you needed a Windows machine.

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.

Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.

They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.

TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file.

Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.