Not to knock the vendor but seriously
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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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@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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@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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@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?
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@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?
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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@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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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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Clear case of "just because you can does not mean you should"
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@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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@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.
