You can delete what you have and use the entire space. I haven't used my DVD-RW disk much, so I don't have a feel for how many times it can overwritten. It seems like RW media scratches up faster than R media, but maybe that's just me.
Dreg: Glory, Your Most Fresh-And-Cleanness. It's only a matter of time-- Glory: Ugh, everything always takes time! What about my time? Does anyone appreciate I'm on a schedule here?! Tick tock, Dreg! Tick freakin' tock!
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Gudanov - Nov 02, 2005 11:13:17 am PST #5395 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Vonnie K - Nov 02, 2005 11:39:01 am PST #5396 of 10003
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
You can delete what you have and use the entire space.
Cool. I'll probably use it mostly to ferry large-sized media files back and forth different computers. Saves me the cumbersome aspect of hauling actual external hard-drives or having to YSI big files.
Cass - Nov 02, 2005 11:49:12 am PST #5397 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Anyone able to open an 800 kb .sit file for me and e back whatever it turns out to be? I suspect it is something I don't care about keeping but I would rather be sure and Alladin is giving me pissall trying to download anything to my PC...
Also a cluesticking on not naming things Archive.sit would not be amiss, cause nsm with the helpful it turns out...
DCJensen - Nov 02, 2005 4:12:37 pm PST #5398 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Cass, email it to me at dcjensen at gmail dot com.
Cass - Nov 02, 2005 4:15:58 pm PST #5399 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Thanks, dcj! Insented.
Nutty - Nov 02, 2005 4:26:09 pm PST #5400 of 10003
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I feel the need to report that at work today, I received files via FTP, and did it all from the command line, a procedure I have not done in years and years. The only things I had to look up were "that command you have to do so the files you get aren't all nonsense" (bin) and "that command so you can not have to get files each by its own name, one by one" (mget).
I was smartastic!! And I realized that (a) my company has no default GUI FTP software and (b) I am the only person in my whole department, including the tech liaison, who knows how to FTP via command.
Is that weird?
DXMachina - Nov 02, 2005 4:51:41 pm PST #5401 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Nutty am genius.
Will they not let you install a GUI FTP client?
§ ita § - Nov 02, 2005 5:10:09 pm PST #5402 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Can't you use IE to do FTP? It's not great, but in work environments not like mine it's usable.
Nutty - Nov 02, 2005 5:13:44 pm PST #5403 of 10003
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I did not know IE had its own FTP business. Just, you type ftp.blahblah.com into the URL space?
I think that other depts. must use FTP a lot more often than we do, so there is surely an FTP client around somewhere. But, the software installation for our group is so wonky that I am the only one with Acrobat Pro, while my colleague down the hall is the only one with Illustrator Pro. Is he an illustrator? No. Am I a big fan of PDFs? No.
Actually most of the FTP-ers are likely Mac users, and a whole group works in Quark. My group doesn't deal with the Quark group directly, most of the time; they have an intermediary that translates Quark back into normal desktop-talk.
tommyrot - Nov 02, 2005 5:16:03 pm PST #5404 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I've heard that if you're FTPing big files, the transfer is more likely to crap out if you're using a browser instead of a dedicated FTP client. I heard this years ago, so I have no idea if it's still true.
I've used some nice Linux GUI FTP clients, but if I'm on a PC or a Mac I usually use the command-line ftp program (because I haven't found decent free GUI FTP clients for PC or Mac).