Whit4you | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:07 pm     Lori... Do you read? Do you have kids? Do you like music? (Lance Lori ain't gonna learn for you to get a new pic! awww) |
Heyltslori | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:09 pm     Yes to the reading and the music thing.... but you haven't answered my question. |
Zachsmom | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:09 pm     FTP is File Transfer Protocol..basically you can exchange large files that you normally could not send through email or hold on a CD..it's great! I've wanted to set one up so I could transfer files from work to home..that way I don't have to bring my laptop home every night.. |
Zachsmom | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:13 pm     Okay..have the program downloaded and ready for the lesson to begin.. |
Whit4you | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:15 pm     Ok Lori... see it's sorta tough to ANSWER your questions without it sounding to 'big' - or confusing.. you know? It's like if someone asked you 'what's good about the TVCH" - but they'd never been on the net... right? If you got to into detail it might scare them off before they even came here. Let's just go with what you could do on MY hard drive (but keep in mind MY hard dive is just one of 10's of thousands you could access you know?) But - I'm an avid reader myself - I have over 10,000 books on MY computer.. and yes you COULD get some of them on the net but you could spend hours and hours and hours just to gat a few good ones. YOU could instead spend 10 minutes to 30 minutes learning to FTP .. and then just go to my directory called "BOOKS" - and pick an author and drag all his /her books to your hard drive. If your into MUSIC - you could use Kazza (which takes as long to learn as FTP does) or you could access my hard drive (or others like mine) and check out all MY favorite mp3's .. FTP - is a way for YOU to access other peoples (and organizations) hard drives like you access your OWN hard drive... |
Zachsmom | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:16 pm     Wait..does this set up an FTP on my computer? hmmm..cause I already know how to FTP..but I don't have an FTP site.. |
Heyltslori | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:21 pm     Ok..I understand. I'm just trying to figure out if it is something I would use. I now use Kaaza and love it...and have never had any trouble there. As far as books...I wouldn't WANT to read them online...I like to curl up with a good book and read in bed...and generally I like to keep the book afterwards. This sounds like a wonderful thing for doing something like what Zachsmom said...transferring her work stuff to home...I'm just not certain that I would ever have a need for it. Or perhaps I'm just naive. |
Whit4you | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:27 pm     OK here are the steps to FlashFXP 1) Start FlashFXP 2) You should see two sides - left side (LS) and right side (RS) Both sides should look the same 3) On the LEFT SIDE (LS) the last icon (it's blue) 10th one over I guess there's a icon that looks like a computer - it should be depressed - if not depress the button. YOU should see YOUR COMPUTER on this side... when you have that button depressed. 4) The RIGHT SIDE - (RS) will be the OTHER PERSONS computer (mine for now) 5) hit F4 (or click on the SITES option on the menu bar) choose NEW GROUP - type in MY SITES (hit ok) hit NEW SITE - type Whits Computer (hit OK) under IP address type 12.230.28.30 port should say 21 - leave that under USER name type 9-11 under PASSWORD type rest-in-peace (NOTE: this is case senstive no caps!) hit apply then CONNECT (this is my first attempt at a how-to someone want to test it for me?) THEN you should see MY computer on the right side ....? Any luck... ? If so - what you want to do NOW - is try dragging something from MY side to your side... Drag a file from MY side.. to the bottom of YOUR side then hit the 'transfer selected' icon - 6th icon over. This is my first attempt at instructions - I should have probably done it with someone in /msg on IRC first but someone let me know how these instructions turned out? |
Whit4you | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:33 pm     Lori - ya me to I like to curl up with a good book too but there are some really interesting and incredible things that it'd be tough to find in print. And example? I have a diary written by one of the few survivors of the black plague.. he wrote this very in depth detailed story day by day - I mean I could write a whole thread just on this one book. And honestly I don't know how you'd find it in print. LOL now I remember why I avoid the "library' sectin here - I could write till I drove everyone insane about books. LOL. Perhaps your right - perhaps you might never find a use for FTP... you could always wait till the tweaks are out of my instructions (feeling bad now realizing I'll probably have to tweak them and waste the time of the first few willing to try this lol) and just save the instructions in case you do find a use for FTP later ....? Kazaa is basically "FTP'ing" - but in a controlled envoronment. In other words you can't use Kazza to FTP to MY computer... or Dra's... just to others on Kazza in their Music dirs. |
Zachsmom | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:35 pm     I did it..!!! |
Whit4you | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:37 pm     Zacks! WOOHOO Yer on my computer - guess my instructions won't need alot of tweaking WTG! now look around - help yourself since at this point you'll get all my bandwidth LOL (unless a lurker or two is reading this as well |
Zachsmom | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:38 pm     I am downloading sims folder..but I think I am downloading your program and not you nifty stuff for them..lol.. |
Zachsmom | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:39 pm     Okay..now how do I set up my own FTP drive? |
Whit4you | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:40 pm     Zacks - if your into the sims - see if you can find this dir D:\TheSims\GameData\UserObjects and grab one or mor of the 'userobects' files - they are huge but uh they have thousands of objects in each of them (this represents 100's of hours of my time collecting them LOL you'll want to stick them in that same dir (GamesData) in your sims dir |
Heyltslori | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:40 pm     Thanks for the explanation Whit...I'll definitely lurk around here for awhile. The thought of accessing Dra's computer does sound fun...lol |
Whit4you | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:42 pm     Zacks - setting up your OWN ftp - is a TAD harder then what you just did - but you did it like 5 min after I wrote the instructions so... perhaps when I am done with this thread I'll start a "How to SETUP an FTP thread ... it's not really hard but a little harder then what you just did ... LOL. Well I said learning TO FTP will take 10 to 30 minutes... (took you 5) Setting up an FTP for others to access YOUR system - would take 20 to 40 minutes... (you have to set it up so they only access the parts you WANT them to .. like you all have access now to my D drive only - and only the parts of it I'm letting ya'all acess see?) FYI - Zacks' you can open up another FlashFXP sign on my computer again (should now be listed under SITES) and browse around while that stuff downloads!!! If you have kids or grandkids ages 4-10 this is a must see section D:\Kids Stuff\@Kids_ColorBook_ActivityPages |
Whit4you | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:51 pm     So should Lance ever see this thread... 1 down... 9 to go! LOL |
Zachsmom | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:53 pm     Perhaps I'll have crossfire help me set up my ftp on linux..I am eventually going to be away from windows.. |
Whit4you | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:55 pm     Hehehe ok I gotta lurker on ....<grin> That's why I love the Lurkers (remember I was one during the first half of BB1...LOL I ain't counting anyone that doesn't post here though.. in the Lance Pic deal....LOL |
Whit4you | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 08:59 pm     Zacks - before you download any of those huge 'userobjects' files you might want to sign off and back on (I had it set to limit your speed to 12kbs) It'll now go at your max... at least till a few more try this....and my bandwidth gets divided too many ways. LOL. Some people can send stuff REALLY fast (60kbs) but the fastest I can send is like 30kbs.. so if say 5 people were on getting stuff to see how this works that'd be 30kbs divided by 5 people (slow... ie dialup speed slow...) But for now it's just you and the 'lurker.....' .... (wondering if it's cross or dra lol) |
Juju2bigdog | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 09:06 pm     Whit, do people have to give you access to their hard drives? Or can you just go in and raid them? |
Crossfire | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 09:07 pm     Hehehe, a reverse IP lookup should shed some light on that one. |
Zachsmom | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 09:08 pm     Hey Cross..you want to help me set an FTP site on my linux box? |
Crossfire | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 09:10 pm     Sure, which linux distribution are you using? |
Whit4you | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 09:12 pm     Juju - pretty much you have to give people acess for them to get on your computer. It's easy to get on the 'hard drives' of alot of big corporations and universities. Warez (illegal softeare) people use those to upload big programs then send their fellow warez people to those sites to get the programs from. As far as say you personally... it'd be pretty tough for someone to get ON your hard drive and get stuff off of it... unless you were to install and run a program that you unknowling are allowing access. The program FlashFXP only allows YOU to access MY computer (or any other computer who's IP / login and pass and port you find) it doesn't allow others to access yours. That's an entirely different program and steps. But ya - hackers... can often find a way to fool people into giving them access to their hard drives. A program called Direct Connect... is a biggy for that... don't recommend you use that before talking to me...LOL. |