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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403 @RojoLoco
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      @RojoLoco said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

      @gjacobse said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

      Sadly - most 'users' would choke if you tried to get them to use FTP - Even if you gave them pictures... Sending via email strips so many security points... but users are more apt to use it.

      You should see the users here get confused when I send them 1) a link to install Filezilla and 2) instructions on how to use FTP (with Filezilla). It never fails that I have to go to someone's desk and have them give a lengthy explanation of all the steps they did right, but now FTP won't work... 100% of the time they are trying it from IE or windows explorer. "What's a filezilla" is often heard... I just point at their Outlook on the screen and say "follow instructions and it will work right first time, every time." Users are FTP-tarded.

      Filezilla is to FTP as Outlook is to Email.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
        last edited by

        @DustinB3403 said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

        @RojoLoco said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

        @gjacobse said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

        Sadly - most 'users' would choke if you tried to get them to use FTP - Even if you gave them pictures... Sending via email strips so many security points... but users are more apt to use it.

        You should see the users here get confused when I send them 1) a link to install Filezilla and 2) instructions on how to use FTP (with Filezilla). It never fails that I have to go to someone's desk and have them give a lengthy explanation of all the steps they did right, but now FTP won't work... 100% of the time they are trying it from IE or windows explorer. "What's a filezilla" is often heard... I just point at their Outlook on the screen and say "follow instructions and it will work right first time, every time." Users are FTP-tarded.

        Filezilla is to FTP as Outlook is to Email.

        Essentially, yes. But one they HAVE to use all the time, one they do not. Normally, anyway.

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        • RojoLocoR
          RojoLoco @DustinB3403
          last edited by gjacobse

          @DustinB3403 said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

          @RojoLoco said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

          @gjacobse said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

          Sadly - most 'users' would choke if you tried to get them to use FTP - Even if you gave them pictures... Sending via email strips so many security points... but users are more apt to use it.

          You should see the users here get confused when I send them 1) a link to install Filezilla and 2) instructions on how to use FTP (with Filezilla). It never fails that I have to go to someone's desk and have them give a lengthy explanation of all the steps they did right, but now FTP won't work... 100% of the time they are trying it from IE or windows explorer. "What's a filezilla" is often heard... I just point at their Outlook on the screen and say "follow instructions and it will work right first time, every time." Users are FTP-tarded.

          Filezilla is to FTP as Outlook is to Email.

          Some of them have the f[moderated]ing audacity to ask me "but why won't it work in IE??? I use IE for everything!!!". It's hard not to choke some of them on a weekly basis.

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403 @RojoLoco
            last edited by gjacobse

            @RojoLoco said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

            @DustinB3403 said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

            @RojoLoco said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

            @gjacobse said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

            Sadly - most 'users' would choke if you tried to get them to use FTP - Even if you gave them pictures... Sending via email strips so many security points... but users are more apt to use it.

            You should see the users here get confused when I send them 1) a link to install Filezilla and 2) instructions on how to use FTP (with Filezilla). It never fails that I have to go to someone's desk and have them give a lengthy explanation of all the steps they did right, but now FTP won't work... 100% of the time they are trying it from IE or windows explorer. "What's a filezilla" is often heard... I just point at their Outlook on the screen and say "follow instructions and it will work right first time, every time." Users are FTP-tarded.

            Filezilla is to FTP as Outlook is to Email.

            Some of them have the f[moderated]ing audacity to ask me "but why won't it work in IE??? I use IE for everything!!!". It's hard not to choke some of them on a weekly basis.

            Carol?

            G3B7y67.gif

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            • RojoLocoR
              RojoLoco @DustinB3403
              last edited by gjacobse

              @DustinB3403 said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

              @RojoLoco said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

              @DustinB3403 said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

              @RojoLoco said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

              @gjacobse said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

              Sadly - most 'users' would choke if you tried to get them to use FTP - Even if you gave them pictures... Sending via email strips so many security points... but users are more apt to use it.

              You should see the users here get confused when I send them 1) a link to install Filezilla and 2) instructions on how to use FTP (with Filezilla). It never fails that I have to go to someone's desk and have them give a lengthy explanation of all the steps they did right, but now FTP won't work... 100% of the time they are trying it from IE or windows explorer. "What's a filezilla" is often heard... I just point at their Outlook on the screen and say "follow instructions and it will work right first time, every time." Users are FTP-tarded.

              Filezilla is to FTP as Outlook is to Email.

              Some of them have the f[moderated]ing audacity to ask me "but why won't it work in IE??? I use IE for everything!!!". It's hard not to choke some of them on a weekly basis.

              Carol?

              G3B7y67.gif

              I could get a lot of use out of Krieger's chokebot... but, I could get a lot of use out of Carol as well... 😉

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403 @RojoLoco
                last edited by

                @RojoLoco That chokebot would be used 24/7 at my current place.

                Carol, Pam, and even Ms. Archer would be well used too.

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403
                  last edited by

                  To be clear I'd have Pam go around and break knuckles for stupid users, Mr. Archer would be my HR person and Carol would be my secretary - figuring out how well the beatings were going to reduce the number of hours the chokebot was working...

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                  • MattSpellerM
                    MattSpeller
                    last edited by

                    Clear case of "just because you can does not mean you should"

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @MattSpeller
                      last edited by

                      @MattSpeller said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

                      Clear case of "just because you can does not mean you should"

                      But that could apply to not using FTP at all, too.

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                      • MattSpellerM
                        MattSpeller @scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

                        @MattSpeller said in Not to knock the vendor but seriously:

                        Clear case of "just because you can does not mean you should"

                        But that could apply to not using FTP at all, too.

                        Correct.

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