If you're using Windows, you need to enable file sharing on both machines. Also, what kind of cable? If you're just plugging a single cable into the ethernet ports of the two machines, you need a crossover cable instead of a normal ethernet cable. Otherwise you need a hub or a router between them.
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
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DXMachina - Dec 14, 2004 2:36:52 am PST #537 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Rob - Dec 14, 2004 5:17:38 am PST #538 of 10003
On any Mac made in the last few years the cross-over cables or hubs aren't needed. The ethernet ports detect a direct connection and configure themselves accordingly. I suspect the same is true of PCs.
You might need to assign IP addresses to both computers to get them to talk.
Jon B. - Dec 14, 2004 5:32:03 am PST #539 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Anyone else getting bombed with obviously virus laden "Merry Christmas" emails? They're going straight into my spam folder so it's no more than a minor annoyance, but it's still irritating.
Ginger - Dec 14, 2004 5:33:41 am PST #540 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Yes, I'm getting the "Merry Christmas" spam, along with a fair amount sent from "Perverted Santa."
DXMachina - Dec 14, 2004 5:41:43 am PST #541 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Merry Christmas, Marry Christmas, Perverted Santa, Perverted Elf...
Consuela - Dec 14, 2004 8:07:38 am PST #542 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Did we know this? [link] The MPAA is planning to sue to shut down torrent tracking sites.
Hmm. Looks like people will go back to IRC and other more covert methods of distributing the files. Cause the thing is, all you need is the file itself, right? You don't have to have a webpage that hosts it...
Tom Scola - Dec 14, 2004 8:17:29 am PST #543 of 10003
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The way bittorrent works, somewhat counterintuitively, the more people who are trying to download the file, the faster the downloads will go.
So no web links = fewer people downloading = less practical.
Consuela - Dec 14, 2004 8:47:34 am PST #544 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Okay, that's true.
sumi - Dec 14, 2004 9:00:36 am PST #545 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Well, apparently, I hadn't watched "Beauty and the Beasts" from my Buffy season 3 dvd set before last night-- because I discovered a bobble on the dvd.
It looks like a smudge -- is that a scratch in dvds? Does this mean that this dvd is completely screwed?
le nubian - Dec 14, 2004 10:24:13 am PST #546 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Well, I wonder if the movies can be removed from such BT sites and leave the TV links.