Daily Archives: March 20, 2008

Don’t buyportablegames.com + paypal sucks

March 20, 2008 – 11:41 am

Back when it first launched, I thought that Paypal was pretty great, and that it could revolutionize the way that private parties could send cash to each other. I guess that it sort of did, though I doubt any GI’s send money back to their families in the states using Paypal, and now there are [...]

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Copy and continue copying large files over file sharing

March 20, 2008 – 11:05 am

In my experience, there is often a flaky slow server at work that contains vital files on it. This is fine when you need to retrieve files that are small, but what happens when you need to copy a large file? Most of the time these servers don’t support ftp protocol and if you are [...]

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