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

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Al" == Alex Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk> writes:

    >> Um, what do you think the control connection (port 21) is for?
    >> Data goes via port 20....

    Al> (Disclaimer: not an ftp expert ;) Not always the case, is it? 
    Al> Or perhaps I've always misunderstood the whole passive /
    Al> active thing.

Passive just means that data connection goes from port `cat
/dev/random` on the client to port 20 on the server, instead of the
server initiating a contact to port 20 on the client.  There are still
two connections.

    >> 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.

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

Dunno 'bout you, but I am big enough to hold down my little girl with
one hand and buckle the belt with the other.  And that's that.  Safety
first FULL STOP.

Sometimes she hurts herself, and of course _I_ apologize for it.  But
I don't pander just because she can scream louder than a rock concert.

Solution:  use the real definition of safety.

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