There’s a crazy rumor going around saying that the government didn’t do much of anything to create the Internet, and that private industry did it all. I remember the Internet before the private sector got involved in it. I was there.
All posts tagged FTP
There’s plenty of credit for the Internet to go around
Posted by Dave Farquhar on July 25, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/07/theres-plenty-of-credit-for-the-internet-to-go-around/
Unix-to-Windows copies with PSCP
I’ve been moving files between Linux servers, and to and from Windows boxes, as part of my server migration. I started to write about how I’ve been doing it, but it seemed oddly familiar. Yep, I’ve written about SCP and its Windows port, PSCP, before. Do this long enough and you find yourself repeating yourself.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 12, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/03/unix-to-windows-copies-with-pscp/
Firefox 4 is out
And although Firefox 4 isn’t officially released until tomorrow, copies have leaked out via FTP staging servers. I grabbed a copy from betanews to do my upgrade early. I’ve played with pre-release versions, so no real surprises. It’s quick. The look changed quite a bit, but you can easily configure it to look like older [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 21, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/03/firefox-4-is-out/
How I changed servers midstream
When upgrading this site, I replaced the underlying hardware as well. The old server was just a dead end in too many regards to be worth upgrading in place, and besides, being able to run new and old side by side for a time is helpful. This type of maneuver is routine work for a [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 6, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/10/how-i-changed-servers-midstream/
Easy and secure remote Linux/Unix file transfers with SCP
Sometimes you need to transfer files between Linux boxes, or between a Linux box and some other box, and setting up Samba or some other form of network file system may not be practical (maybe you only need to transfer a couple of files, or maybe it’s just a one-time thing) or possible (maybe there’s a firewall involved).
Posted by Dave Farquhar on December 2, 2003
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2003/12/easy-and-secure-remote-linuxunix-file-transfers-with-scp/
A semi-easy firewall
A single-floppy firewall mini-distribution can be a quick and easy way to save yourself some money if you’ve got an old PC in a closet not doing anything, assuming you stumble across a combination of hardware that works right.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 19, 2002
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2002/10/a-semi-easy-firewall/
A total blast from the past
I don’t remember how I stumbled across it, but textfiles.com tries to collect documents from the classic days of BBSing, which the curator defines as having ended in 1995. I wouldn’t have thought it that recent. I was still BBSing in the summer of ’94, but by the fall of ’94 I’d discovered the Web, and I thought I was the last one to wake up to it.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 12, 2002
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2002/10/a-total-blast-from-the-past/
More video editing
I’ve been playing around with the public domain films at The Internet Archive. The movies in this collection are generally old industrial films, newsreels, promotional films, and amateur movies, some from as early as 1917. There’s a ton of old WWII and Cold War footage. The quality varies, of course, but much of it is very good, and very interesting to an armchair historian like me.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 2, 2002
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2002/03/more-video-editing/
Linkfest Friday…
Let’s start things off with some links. Web development’s been on my mind the last few days. There’s a whole other world I’ve been wanting to explore for a couple of years, and I’ve finally collected the information that’ll let me do it.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 15, 2002
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2002/02/linkfest-friday/
Ho-hum.
Another day, another Outlook worm. Tell me again why I continue to use Outlook? Not that I ever open unexpected attachments. For that matter, I rarely open expected ones–I think it’s rude. Ever heard of cut and paste? It’s bad enough that I have to keep one resource hog open to read e-mail, so why are you going to make me load another resource hog, like Word or Excel, to read a message where the formatting doesn’t matter?
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 29, 2002
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2002/01/ho-hum/