Discussion » ftp? internets?

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Posted by robotnik, around 25th May 2005:
 
For the last few months I've been sans internets and have had to use public computers and consequently the windows default ftp client for ftp needs (linklog, testing html etc.). Unfortunately, my university computers have everything disabled. The start menu has the office suite, notepad and calculator and no run command and the windows folder is apparently nonexistent so I'm wondering if there are online ftp clienty thingies and if they are securish. I know very little about the subject and when I'm paying by both the minute and the megabyte here I don't like spending half an hour on google; plus I'm a lazy prick. So if anyone can help, do.
Posted by cal_DUPE1, around 25th May 2005:
 
can you use floppy disks on the uni machines?
Posted by Brock, around 25th May 2005:
 
And if you keep putting them in and out, do they become hard disks?

*snigger
Posted by WarHead, around 25th May 2005:
 
Wombat!!!1111
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 25th May 2005:
 
yousendit.com/ any good to you?
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 25th May 2005:
 
(cal: if you still have appetite for tweaking UI stuff, adding a "strip-trailing-/" to the auto-linking of urls code might look very slightly tidier)
Posted by robotnik, around 26th May 2005:
 
About 1/3 of them have floppy disk drives.

Thanks but I don't think yousendits much use ;[
Posted by robotnik, around 26th May 2005:
 
hoho, gotcha internets. Took a bit of work but I slipped behind the "your administrator has disabled access to" message with the lovely windows search function :D

Still, a web-based ftp dealy would be useful.
Posted by robotnik, around 26th May 2005:
 
Ok so I got my account temporarily disabled '30 seconds' for 'undesirable use.'

New plan?
Posted by ellipse, around 26th May 2005:
 
upload to gmail
Posted by robotnik, around 26th May 2005:
 
and have had to use public computers and consequently the windows default ftp client for ftp needs (linklog, testing html etc.).

Can't really edit webpages via gmail unfortunately. Unless in my few months away from regular internets, they've upgraded gmail to awesomeness.
Posted by jeffld_DUPE1, 26th May 2005:
 
If you have access to a web browser you could try this.

net2ftp
Posted by robotnik, 26th May 2005:
 
Perfect, thanks!
Posted by ellipse, 27th May 2005:
 
if that doesn't work, i might know of a hole in the system at a university in a NZ capital near you.
Posted by robotnik, 27th May 2005:
 
it didn't work ;[

interesting fact: i might in fact be enrolled at a university in a NZ capital near me

♥
Posted by ellipse, 27th May 2005:
 
i shall check and see if former webmaster can direct me to hole in the system at a university in a NZ capital near me
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, 28th May 2005:
 
from NTK just now:

>> TRACKING <<
sufficiently advanced technology : the gathering

Scott R. Turner self-aggrandisingly writes: "It has always
been my dream to get mentioned in the TRACKING section of
NTK. For many years, my biggest claim to fame was adding
Keystone Kops to Nethack. Now, however, I've created a
Firefox extension that might be worthy of your notice:
PLATYPUS. It has all the ingredients for instant success: a
nerdy-but-hip name, a fashionably angry-looking logo, and
usefulness to only a tiny portion of Internet users. As if
that weren't enough, it's actually very useful: it allows
Firefox users to visually edit a web page and then save
those changes (via the Magic of Greasemonkey (TM)) to be
applied again the next time the page is viewed. Oh, sure,
that sounds trivial but then you didn't have to implement it
in a foul language like Javascript. Check it out, I think
you'll enjoy it!" And so we will, just after putting this
Platypus-coded Dave-Winer Tourettesifier through its final
paces.
platypus.mozdev.org/using.html
- key old-skool hint here: hit "?" to see a list of commands
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, 28th May 2005:
 
hey cal, i LIKE the nonparsing of the double <>s
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, 28th May 2005:
 
ok, that's tricky

experiment time:
these:
<<
< <
>>
> >
>> word <<

become:
<<
< >
> >
>> word <<
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, 28th May 2005:
 
funky
Posted by cal_DUPE1, 28th May 2005:
 
parsing html is a tricksy thing
Posted by Brock, 28th May 2005:
 
Cal! Put your trumpet down!
Posted by ellipse, around June 2005:
 
woo
am learninng about how to acess whatever the hell i like at the next wellngton flickrmeet. Sure i'll be bored to death by nerdy comparisons of palm pilots and camera lenses, but soon knolwedge and exploitation is mine
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around June 2005:
 
see, it's EASY to compare palm pilots and camera lenses.

palm pilots are stunted computers tailored to easy human-factor-cognizant portability and usage, whereas camera lenses are arrangements of polished glass within light-sealed tubes designed for attachment to the front of light-sensitive films or screens

now, ms.ellipse, you will be the comparo-monster-god of the next wellington flickrmeet