lostfan

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 6, 2011 -> 08:50 AM) Well, in order to do that, preferably secure-FTP is the way to do it...however, the first question is who is your ISP? I have Comcast, and while Comcast assigns random public IP's, they rarely change them...so you'll have to figure out if your IP changes a lot or not...otherwise when you give the public address to people they may find it unresponsive because it's no longer there (meaning your ISP changed your IP again). You can use DDNS to get around such things, but if you don't know what FTP is, I won't even get into DDNS just yet. You'd basically have to configure your router/wireless, depending on what model it is, to forward requests to your specific computer on your internal network. Because of this, you also have to make sure the IP of that internal computer never changes either. While these are relatively simple things for me to do, they're probably a bit more complicated to you. This would solve your "share across the country problem", as this is what FTP was designed for...however, it can be a mess for a person that's never done it before or has no server experience. Also, since you plan on sharing "not so legal" stuff to the extent that you're talking terabytes...I'm not sure I'd run it on a public facing FTP site and I'd keep that off the Internet if possible...and just have them copy your drive to be safe... I have Verizon FIOS. I understand basic networking and all, I know what FTP is I just couldn't break down the mechanics of it to you, I'd probably sound like a buffoon to you. I do know how to change my router's settings to make the IP of my computer permanent although that's kind of a pain in the ass. QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 6, 2011 -> 10:31 AM) LOL @ lostfan mixing up the size of his hard drive. I was thinking dropbox as well earlier on in the conversation. lol. And I'm a pretty tech-savvy kind of guy... built everything in my house by myself. Thinking "they really give away 2 terabytes for FREE?" Umm yeah no.

I could've sworn this already happened?

Glad I didn't buy a gun last year b/c my brains would be splattered all over my basement wall right now.

When I was in the military I found a lot of the civilian employees to be arrogant, not necessarily lazy.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 6, 2011 -> 09:44 AM) How the hell does this guy get away with the hyperbolic bile in this forum? I thought there were some rules established here. All Dems are unpatriotic unAmericans. All public workers are lazy bums. These are facts now. SMH Dude you know you're my boy but you do this all the time.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 11:12 PM) Honestly, sharing that much data is a PITA, it'd be easier for them to bring a portable drive to your house and copy it, or even burn it on blurays or DVDs. If you really want to attempt FTP, I can try to find an easy to configure FTP server. The hard drive thing was Option A. I was trying to figure out if there was a way i could conveniently do it and have them be able to access my files from across the country if they wanted to.

I have met some incredibly dumb people in the military too. It's like anywhere else in life. There were also times at least once a week where I had to shake my head and go "THIS MAKES NO SENSE WHATSOEVER. WHAT THE f*** ARE WE DOING???" There is also an asshole or a backstabber around every corner, you eventually learn to navigate those douches and you take the bad with the good.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 10:26 PM) I'd say the best way to do this is via FTP. If you've never configured an FTP server before, this could get cumbersome...but you'd learn a lot. I think this was supposed to be my original question... lol.

It's this: http://www.dramabutton.com

Another Dunn strikeout. http://www.dramabutton.com

The gov't is just flat-out not coordinated/competent enough to pull some s*** off like that. All those moving parts moving at the same time? No. Just no.

I just realized I said MB instead of GB and GB instead of TB. lol, no wonder this seemed so easy. I'm talking about thousands of files, entire hard drives' worth.

I'm actually not so upset at the decision itself, cuz in all honesty I know why the jury made the decision it did. The prosecution just couldn't prove anything, even if it seemed blindingly obvious that all roads led to "she killed her." I'm more upset about the fact that Casey Anthony got away with whatever she did... Casey Anthony is responsible for that. But the armchair jurors are annoying as hell... people in my news feed saying "the government owes Mike Vick and Plaxico Burress something!" Umm owe them what? They broke laws, they went to prison. That's ass backwards logic.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 09:28 PM) 9/11 was an inside job. Obama's not an American. Is that better?! Yes. Thank you sir.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 09:26 PM) It is a daily event in here. You notice not from me though (I hope not).

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 09:15 PM) It doesn't have to be an argument, it can be a discussion where both sides actually listen to what the other side says, rather than thinking about what they're going to respond with when reading the other persons points/points of contention. Arguments never solve anything because neither side really listens to the other... That's the problem with a total guns blazing attitude...it immediately skips the discussion phase and goes right into the argument phase...and nothing gets solved. I'm guilty of it too, but I realize that's what it causes at the same time. Dude. Get out of my head and go back to being a bats*** crazy conspiracy theorist

QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 09:10 PM) Ohhhh. So instead of hating on liberals, I should be masturbating? Might not be a bad idea. But on a serious note, guns blazing is just my style. I figured I was offering my side of the argument when I wrote up that list this morning, and that people could defend the left's attitudes from there. If that's not a good way to do things, I honestly couldn't tell you what a good way is. Isn't this how any argument goes? One side posts their stuff and whoever disagrees defends themselves? If someone posted a thread about racist conservatives, I'd jump in and say why it wasn't so. Who knows, maybe I'm wrong. I mean directness and all, yeah. That's me too. I don't know, I guess it's really hard for me to verbalize to other people (everyone else in here knows each other and they are who they are and won't change). I guess what I'm saying is if I made up a similar list about conservatives that sounded really hostile to you (which does and will happen on this board), and said you'd have to justify it, you'd probably roll your eyes and be like "not this s*** again, he has no idea what he's talking about." I'm personally more like "this is what I understand you to believe and this is why I think you're wrong." I don't actually expect you to agree with me but I try to be heard. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 09:11 PM) The only solution is obviously conformity Why has this taken so long for you to figure out? Tens of thousands of keystrokes wasted!

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 08:59 PM) As you should. Don't let these libtards scare you off...especially BigSqwert and lostfan.

That's not what I'm getting at... I'm saying you're going about this the wrong way. You come in guns blazing and attacking someone's ideology and belief system right from jump, and demanding they explain how and why they are not seditious parasites who are destroying America and you can't be surprised when you either get nothing or you get resistance/hostility. The reaction is the same as the one you give when someone does it to you. Took me a while to figure this out, myself. I have to pick and choose how I respond to things and when, otherwise it burns a lot of my energy that I'd rather spend playing with my son, screwing around on Xbox, jacking off, etc.

When I drag stuff into this Dropbox folder it's in a Windows Explorer window, but isn't actually going on my hard drive/changing directories, correct?

A message only goes as far as its recipient is willing to listen.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 08:31 PM) You can share entire directories with other dropbox users, or you can share individual directories/files with the public. For example, here is a screenshot of my desktop I put in my dropbox public folder: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29515785/ss.jpg All I did was right click the file on the dropbox website, and click "copy public link"...etc. The easiest thing to do is get others to join, and share the directory with their username -- and bam, all the files you put in that directory are now available on their dropbox, too. Did you get your 250 megs?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 08:21 PM) Everything on dropbox is encrypted and your business...or the business of the people you share it with. So long as you aren't sharing kiddie porn you're pretty safe. Also, after you see how great it is, you can invite people yourself, and you'll get like 250 megs of extra storage everytime you do. lol, no kiddie porn. Movies, music, you know, the usual. Will people be able to browse it?

Like seriously I almost WANT this to be complicated. This feels like I'm about to cheat. Then again, umm. The files themselves I'm sharing... yeah.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 08:14 PM) If all you need to do is share 800 megs -- I'd highly recommend just using dropbox, forget the FTP server garbage...because then you have to teach the people you want to share with how to use FTP, too. It's much easier to jump on dropbox, put the files you want to share on there and share them via public link. Go to the website and watch the tutorial, it's pretty awesome stuff. You'll get 2 gigs of space free. In this case, what you could do is zip up the files you want to share, put them in your 'public' dropbox folder, and right click it, and put "copy public link", and just email that link to people...they can then download the files. That sounds almost too easy.