Re: [Sheflug] I hate Windoze, Samba and RAID.

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

>     Al> You then have to have some method of communication between
>     Al> server and client in the middle of transfer - again, extra
>     Al> complexity, especially since you are already using the entire
>     Al> range of possible bitstreams. Depends how big your packets
>     Al> are, I suppose it may not make that much difference.
>
> Um, what do you think the control connection (port 21) is for?  Data
> goes via port 20....

(Disclaimer: not an ftp expert ;) Not always the case, is it? Or perhaps
I've always misunderstood the whole passive / active thing. Certainly, at
York Uni you're only allowed 'passive' (for crappy firewall reasons ;), but
I suppose I'm in the minority. And probably passive means something
completely different to what I thought it did ....

> Yup.  And seat belts made of pink satin ribbon would probably convince
> a lot of little girls to wear them.  Annoyance is the price of safety,
> always has been, always will be.

Mmm. It's always going to be a tradeoff. If no little girls would wear seat
belts, I'd take the pink satin ones every time, because they would save
injury and thus be safER. Not safEST, but safER. Human nature, no real
solution.

> Well, since you can use Mozilla to connect to www.microsoft.com, I
> guess that makes MSFT part of your Linux system.

Depends whether you classify data in that way. Normal data no, objects yes
though. But, I pretty much agree, so yes, I guess it does make MSFT part of
my system. I think we're arguing over definitions though ;)))

> LILO doesn't "integrate" with the Unix system; it is a general purpose
> bootloader and would be just as happy, well, maybe not "happy," but
> effective, managing 6 different variations on the MS-DR-DOS Win-3.1-
> NT-95-98-2000 theme, with not a real OS to be found within a billion
> sectors.

Oooooo cutting ;) I personally rate WinNT/2000 as a 'real' OS; in the same
way as I rate EPOC as a 'real' OS. Dos isn't (IMO), neither is PalmOS, and
stuff like that. But, definitions once more ;)

Cheers,

Alex.

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