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Steve, If you're scanning an image archive, an icon of the file type is useless. OK, we have 500 JPEGs. Now, pick a few you care about. My thought is, given broadband, browsing an image archive on the net should not differ much from browsing an archive on your local hard drive or your LAN. Picking images to download named DSCnnnnn or hand-labeled is not productive. Let's do lunch. /rich On 8/21/06, STeve Andre' <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Heh. But more seriously, how far should the "graphical" paradigm > go? Displaying thumbnails of (jpg/gif/png/tiff/bmp/psd) images is > perhaps done fairly easily, but how far do you go in the attempt > to render data? Do you do Office suite files? Audio files (How, > pray tell), and then the descending slope of less popular formats. > I'd think that a small icon of the file type would be more reasonable, > and could be extensible such that little images of most of the > some 16,000+ file types could be shown. > > Circa 1981, I think, and, you're on re food. Definitely with wifi! > > --STeve Andre' > Political Science > > On Monday 21 August 2006 21:44, Richard Wiggins wrote: > > STeve, > > > > Grrrrrr > > > > You, and Dennis Boone, and I, must talk. This is all about what is > client > > side, what is server side, and what makes sense given a certain amount > of > > bandwidth. > > > > Circa 1993. :-) > > > > Seriously. Lumch. On me. Somewhere with Wi-Fi. > > > > /rich > > > > On 8/21/06, STeve Andre' <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Hmmm. I suspect some might consider me a Net Neanderthal for saying > > > this, but I fail to see the reason for wanting graphical > thumbnails. I > > > mean, > > > graphical stuff is only one kind of data, and showing a thumbnail > > > implies that the images have to be sent over to the ftp client to be > > > rendered, hardly an efficient thing to do. > > > > > > I'll go crawl under my command line shell now... > > > > > > --STeve Andre' > > > Political Science > > > > > > On Monday 21 August 2006 20:11, Richard Wiggins wrote: > > > > Thanks to everyone for suggesting Filezilla. I've tried it and it > > > > seems very nice. It's fast and the interface is intuitive. > > > > > > > > One feature I'd like to see is the ability to see thumbnails of > remote > > > > files when they are images. Sometimes it seems like we are living in > > > > the world of the Jetsons, but sometimes it still seems to be > > > > Flintstones... > > > > > > > > Thanks again, > > > > > > > > /rich > > > > > > > > On 8/14/06, Peter Cole <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > FileZilla is the only FTP client I bother using if I'm on a > Windows > > > > > machine. Easy to use, light weight, and free. A perfect > > > > > combination. It also can use XML for connection information so it > > > > > makes > > > > > exportation/importation of your ftp site info as easy as copying > > > > > files between folders if you need to reinstall FileZilla or > install > > > > > it on multiple machines. > > > > > > > > > > When you go to download it, be careful because there's a FileZilla > > > > > ftp server and a FileZilla ftp client, I've accidently downloaded > the > > > > > > wrong > > > > > > > > one more than once. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > > *From:* MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto: > [log in to unmask]] > > > > > > *On > > > > > > > > Behalf Of *Harper, Chris > > > > > *Sent:* Monday, August 14, 2006 12:29 AM > > > > > > > > > > *To:* [log in to unmask] > > > > > *Subject:* Re: [MSUNAG] Graphical Windows FTP client? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Found out about Filezilla (http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/) when > > > > > AIS changed AISFTP access and got rid of the secure id's and went > to > > > > > SFTP. When they did this they promoted Filezilla as a free SFTP > > > > > connectivity tool, can't say that I have any complaints at this > > > > > point… my primary > > > > > > FTP > > > > > > > > app for years has always been FTP Voyager though. Not free > however. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *Chris Harper* > > > > > INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST > > > > > > > > > > University Relations / Michigan State University > > > > > > > > > > 1330 S. Harrison Rd., East Lansing, MI 48823-5200 > > > > > > > > > > *Email: *[log in to unmask] / *Office:* 517.355.6611 x 103 > > > > > *Web:* http://ur.msu.edu / *Cell:* 616.291.1987 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > > *From:* MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto: > [log in to unmask]] > > > > > > *On > > > > > > > > Behalf Of *Richard Wiggins > > > > > *Sent:* Sunday, August 13, 2006 10:10 PM > > > > > *To:* [log in to unmask] > > > > > *Subject:* [MSUNAG] Graphical Windows FTP client? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, I know, an odd question for 2006.... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Internet Explorer had a nice FTP client that provided moves > to/from > > > > > > local > > > > > > > > disk to remote FTP site using icons as if local. It appears that > > > > > Microsoft has broken this in IE 7. I've been unable to get it to > log > > > > > into servers, and there's talk on the Net that the function is > > > > > broken. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So I'm looking for an alternative. WS-FTP LE is no longer > available. > > > > > Firefox has an add-in called FireFTP that's pretty good but has > > > > > shortcomings. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Is there a free graphical Windows FTP client you suggest? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > /rich > -- Rich Wiggins [log in to unmask]