Is network really necessary just for sharing files

I came across one of those thumbdrivers with 128mb, and have great success
moving files from one computer to another without all the hassle of setting up
a p2p. Of course its limited as far as needing to sign on the internet and
sharing hugh files..but for me, I find these little gadgets are great . There
are even larger capacity's 256, 512mb..it may one day take the place of the
hard drive, if and when they will get even larger. In fact I read somewhere
that there is a gizmo called os or something to that effect that one can put on
average 20 movies on the size of a nickel.

On 23 Feb 2004 23:55:16 GMT, Wishy13764 wrote:

> I came across one of those thumbdrivers with 128mb, and have great success
> moving files from one computer to another without all the hassle of setting up
> a p2p. Of course its limited as far as needing to sign on the internet and
> sharing hugh files..but for me, I find these little gadgets are great . There
> are even larger capacity's 256, 512mb..it may one day take the place of the
> hard drive, if and when they will get even larger. In fact I read somewhere
> that there is a gizmo called os or something to that effect that one can put on
> average 20 movies on the size of a nickel.

If you don't mind walking from computer to computer with your thumbdrive
"sneaker net" works very well. If you don't want to walk from computer to
computer then a network is necessary.

I can't imagine any business wanting their employees walking all over the
place with thumbdrives rather than sharing files over the network.

On 23 Feb 2004 23:55:16 GMT, Wishy13764 wrote:

> I came across one of those thumbdrivers with 128mb, and have great success
> moving files from one computer to another without all the hassle of setting up
> a p2p. Of course its limited as far as needing to sign on the internet and
> sharing hugh files..but for me, I find these little gadgets are great . There
> are even larger capacity's 256, 512mb..it may one day take the place of the
> hard drive, if and when they will get even larger. In fact I read somewhere
> that there is a gizmo called os or something to that effect that one can put on
> average 20 movies on the size of a nickel.

If you don't mind walking from computer to computer with your thumbdrive
"sneaker net" works very well. If you don't want to walk from computer to
computer then a network is necessary.

I can't imagine any business wanting their employees walking all over the
place with thumbdrives rather than sharing files over the network.

> If you don't mind walking from computer to computer with your
> thumbdrive "sneaker net" works very well. If you don't want to walk
> from computer to computer then a network is necessary.
>
> I can't imagine any business wanting their employees walking all over
> the place with thumbdrives rather than sharing files over the network.

There's an echo in here.......
--

Dan

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:48:05 -0600, Dan Boyd wrote:

>> If you don't mind walking from computer to computer with your
>> thumbdrive "sneaker net" works very well. If you don't want to walk
>> from computer to computer then a network is necessary.
>>
>> I can't imagine any business wanting their employees walking all over
>> the place with thumbdrives rather than sharing files over the network.
>
> There's an echo in here.......

<grin>That's because I'm sitting here in the Cascades, in a deep canyon.
Love the echos. Wireless works great from my tent. </grin>

Actually, I must have had a twitch as I posted. No harm no foul.