I use BlazeFTP 2.1 on my PCs and have been quite happy with it.
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Gudanov - Nov 03, 2005 5:12:50 am PST #5432 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Typo Boy - Nov 03, 2005 12:54:11 pm PST #5433 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
My Mom's computer is dying. I've backed up all her critical files - which took up about 30 megs (profile from her email and browser, plus some very small word processing files.) Basically she does e-mail, very light browsing and the very occasional light internet use.
So we need to get her something for comparatively modest needs. Price is important, so we don't want overkill - but we don't want slow as molasses either. Any thoughts?
Thanks
le nubian - Nov 03, 2005 1:31:52 pm PST #5434 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
how much?
Typo Boy - Nov 03, 2005 1:39:11 pm PST #5435 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
350 or under would be nice. We can live with more if we have to avoid getting garbage. But she doesn't need much power.
le nubian - Nov 03, 2005 1:52:49 pm PST #5436 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
does she already have a monitor? or is this a laptop replacement?
NoiseDesign - Nov 03, 2005 2:15:26 pm PST #5437 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
There are prices on refurb Mac Mini's around that range through the online Apple store.
Typo Boy - Nov 03, 2005 2:35:31 pm PST #5438 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
She has a monitor. And she's kind of used to her keyboard too. Hmm - she is used to the wintel world, and 83 new stuff is not always easy on her. On the other hand if we go wintel she will end up with XP; her current system use ME. Dunno if the MAC will be harder for her to get used to or not. I know it is a more user friendly system. But you have to understand that she has never passed to stage of "you press the following buttons in the following sequence" to get things to happen. I don't think she ever has gotten used to applying the whole desktop metaphor - file cabinets and such. Not sure if Mac would be the way for her to go.
le nubian - Nov 03, 2005 3:38:01 pm PST #5439 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Nov 04, 2005 7:32:50 am PST #5440 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This engadget bit says, amongst other things, that WEP encryption is a joke. How funny? What else should I be doing to make my network secure ... though I probably can't, and still keep my TiVo wireless, can I?
Tom Scola - Nov 04, 2005 7:41:07 am PST #5441 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
WEP can be cracked in a minute or two with a modern computer. You need to use WPA if at all possible.