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It's 2020, I want a phone I can locate by pinging it from my wifi - some kind of finder app i can run from my PC/laptop that will cause the phone to beep until you locate it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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It's 2020. I want a phone that doesn't do that. I want one with a cable, so I don't need an idiot-app to locate it. Not even Wifi in this home.
The kids visiting were forced to talk instead of focussing on their phone. They beat me with mobile internet, and showed me tiktok video's.
I prefer talking.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Several of my friends / coworkers have a perfect answer for this: They have an app on the phone reporting its position to this web service that can tell you where the phone is. The app uses all sorts of tricks to get a correct location: GPS, Glasnost (or whatever it is called), Gallileo, locations of all sorts of GSM/successor towers, ...
The purpose is to tell your position so it can be reported to any agency who wants to track you ... maybe that is not the stated purpose, but just an indirect benefit. Everone can know exactly where you are: Authorities, friends, burglars, and advertising companies who want to direct you towards "relevant" stores.
What's in it for you? That's obvious: This web site told you exactly where to look for your phone!
I am trying to be as polite as I can when rejecting the pressure from my coworkers telling me how just great it is to let this app keept track of your phone (and indirectly: you) at all times. They do not see any problem with it. I do.
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you should have put a ring on it Or you could attach a bell to it. Oh! No! That only works with a cat! 
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Thats's what mice do, isn'nt it?
At least what I read in some fairy tales, that is what they planned to do.
But the instructions delivered with my mouse had no instructions for how to make it do it.
Maybe we'll do without. I usually use cpp to inspect files, rather than cat.
And, honestly, I don't want my mouse to start squeaking every time I open a file in cpp.
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There are / were some tiny things that you can stick to other objects that give a sound beeper if you whistle. You might use one of it.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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My daughter does an online course for which she needs to ftp some files. I haven't ftp-ed in years and need advice on a good (free?) ftp client. Any advice will be sincerely appreciated! Thanks!
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Check FileZilla[^]
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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That's my recommendation as well. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Thanks! FileZilla is just what the doctor ordered. Simple and easy to use. I could not ask for more!
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modified 2-Jun-20 20:14pm.
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You are welcome 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Cp-Coder wrote: I could not ask for more!
Yes you could and that results in
Cp-Coder wrote: Simple and easy to use.
not being available!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Almost every web browser out there will do FTP, even if you need to log in non-anonymously. Just use ftp://[sitename] in the address bar, and you should get an FTP connection that will allow you to browse.
These days, Win10 ships with a command-line ftp tool that can be used from cmd or powershell, too for the masochistic.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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k5054 wrote: command-line ftp tool that can be used from cmd
Yup, that's what I do. But only about once a year, so I don't need anything more useful.
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FTP deprecated???
Are you suggesting that Gopher may be going away as well?
Then, which tools are available for navigating gopher sites?
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Not FTP itself, just in browsers.
And now I return to being sad about Gopher. 
TTFN - Kent
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I don't think Gopher itself is super important today. But in the early 1990s, when I was teaching college students Internet protocols, we saw HTTP as natural, stepwise evolution of Gopher. HTTP was just an extension of the Gopher content alternatives, where links could be arbrirarity baked into the text content.
There is no doubt that we underestimated the importance of HTML - more so than HTTP. There is no doubt that we under-estimated the importance of supplying extra information with the request. Yet we saw it as a stepwise evolution: Allowing links to other resources to be embedded in the text. Supplying information with the request. Fairly simple extensions, from a technical point of view. We never saw it as anything revolutionary, brand new, never seen before, but as a great improvement to what we had.
Most web user had never seen Gopher, so to them it was revolutionary. Even among those who had used Gopher, many were flashed by the and fancy uses of the new HTML data contents format, and never realized how small the differences were to Gopher data, at least on the conceptual level.
I were never astonished by neither HTTP nor HTML, in themselves - both are simple extensions of earlier protocols (such as Gopher). What astonisehed me (and continue to do so!) is how content developers manage to utilize these rather primitive (it must be admitted!) mechanism for presenting rather impressing content!
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Gopher[^] was never the same after they let Phillip Schofield leave the Broom Cupboard. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I seem to recall seeing that on slashdot, I think. I had totally forgotten about it. I did check before posting here and my version of chrome (83.0.4103.61) still works.
About the only site I use ftp on is ftp.gnu.org, to grab the latest version of gcc, make or gdb. Everything else is downloaded over https either by a click on the web site or via wget.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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Thanks!
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I have used WS_FT95 for years. It's simple. And free.
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BobbyStrain wrote: WS_FT95 for years
This was my first ftp utility and I used it until I moved to 64-bit. I liked it so much that I wrote my own based on that design. (with a few enhancements)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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