Nathan Willis

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I refuse to write about NitroShare because it has absolutely zero effing documentation. As is, even the Debian packages have *empty* manpage files. No excuse.

Douglas Perkins likes this.

Seems that you just did write about it?

Jason Self at 2015-03-30T19:14:01Z

X11R5 likes this.

@n8@identi.ca but you just did....

Freemor at 2015-03-30T23:58:44Z

@n8@identi.ca also I'm confused why do we need yet another file transfer option? We have smb,ftp,http,netcat, rsync,nfs, sftp,and on and on, why design yet another one that doesn't even bother to speak the old ones.

NitroShare wont help me get files off an old dos machine. Ftp probably would.

Freemor at 2015-03-31T00:19:34Z

lnxwalt@microca.st likes this.

My impression is that many of these HTTP-under-the-hood systems are optimizing for momentary / unplanned usage. Not for permanent shares. Like what you do when, for some unknown reason, Bluetooth is borking out on you and you need to send something to a phone that doesn't have a USB host port. Which happens to me periodically. Or when you need to move a file to the machine across the house but copying it onto your UPnP-connected NFS share is a problem because all of your DLNA devices will suddenly index it.

I think FileTea is pretty great for that.

Nathan Willis at 2015-03-31T00:51:04Z