On 8/23/07, Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, August 23, 2007 3:15 pm, Zane Gilmore wrote: > >> There must be a way of easily and securely providing that functionality > to > >> people who are not > >> network engineers. > > Nick Rout wrote: > > Thats why its "right click|share" > > It's all becoming academic. > > USB Flash drives are $25 for a gb. > > If I have a big print file on my machine then I'll put it on a flash > drive (at 480Mbit/s) then use sneakernet to pass it to my wife. Your USB interface may be specified for 480Mbit/s, but neither your hard drive nor particularly your $25 USB flash will go at anything like that speed.
> In the home, it's faster to use USB for a big file than wifi or even a > cable. WADR Eh!?! You two have to move the file from the hard-drive of comp1 to the USB thing, walk across the room and then transfer it to comp2. That more than doubles the time it takes to do a normal transfer. You would find that setting up a proper fast network ( 1000 Mbits ) would be a great deal faster than stuffing around with one of those USB thumb drive whatsits. There are 15 1000Mbit NIC devices supported by the Linux kernel. DSE have a suitable card ( XH8266 ) for only $39.98 and they are supported in the kernel. A Linux machine running an instance of samba which has been properly set up with CUPS makes network printing an absolute doddle. <quote=the appropriate help text for the kernel option you need> Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet support (R8169) Say Y here if you have a Realtek 8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called r8169. This is recommended. </quote> For casual file transfers between 2 computers the netcat - or nc - command is extremely useful. Much faster than scp because there is not the overhead of encryption. > With almost a terabyte on our active network, diving into the right > folder is often more of a mission than just using a physical media. Indeed. Sounds to me like you need to set up a easier to remember file-system layout. > As for security, put it on a flash drive and it's both with you and not > on the net if you're using your computer for anything that may be > compromising. Those flash-drive thingies are: 1) very desirable items with the teen-age population; and 2) very easy indeed simply to lose. Thus I am not at all sure "with you" is quite the right term. > Experts have been saying that computing is going to be come a trust game > for some time. "Experts" say all sorts of things to sell their uninformed opinions. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
