On Nov 2, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Russell McMahon wrote:

>>> Russell McMahon wrote:
>>> Summary:    Want to implement FTP server with minimum
>>> bloodshed and effort.
>
>> aptitude install vsftpd
>
> I just *knew* that someone was gonna come and preach de old
> time religion to me before we were through here.

Heh... no ill-will meant.  Windows just makes me impatient to get  
things done.  :-)

It's very similar to a conversation I had with a friend today about a  
NUMBER of new technologies that are supposedly consumer-ready these  
days... I shouldn't have to spend three days researching whether or  
not a $50 bluetooth headset matches all the wacky requirements for my  
various devices, etc... it's just not worth it.  Stuff at that price  
point should "just work", yet it rarely does anymore.

(Same thing with the HD-DVD and BluRay "war"... screw that... I'll  
just wait until the dust settles.  Who has time for it, even with the  
prices now hitting $100 for a player... who wants TWO of them?)

> One of these days, I keep telling myself.

No rush.

> And, have been doing so for years.
> But Windows works well enough most of the time that the
> effort required to uproot a lifetime of habit and experience
> is hard to come by. (AFAIR I first saw Windows running in
> 1984. I had a copy of the essentially unheard of Excel 1
> with integral Windows runtime. That certainly didn';t last
> long.

I don't go back that far, but I maintained a callcenter full of Win  
3.1 machines and later Windows 3.11 machines, complete with QEMM and  
Trumpet WinSock later on... so the darn things could have IP  
connectivity... something every Unix system had what, 5-10 years prior?

> One of these days ...

No worries!  No pressure.  You may find that renting a virtual machine  
on someone else's hardware is the way to go when/if you ever decide to  
do it.  Much less headache -- no need to learn the little minutiae of  
the OS loads and what-not... just log in and go... cheap too.

--
Nate Duehr
nate@natetech.com



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