slide wrote in
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Larry wrote:
Wayne.B wrote in
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On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:08:11 +0000, Larry wrote:

This is a really neat device that VERY rapidly will copy files
between two Windows PCs by simply plugging the self-retracting
cords between their USB ports. Inside the device, a little
computer tells the PCs to run a file manager program built right
into the device. Once it boots, all you do is drag and drop files
or whole directories of files or groups of files from one
computer's file list to the other on the Tornado file
manager....it's that easy!
For the price of a $4 ethernet crossover cable you can do the same
thing at 100 mb/sec.



Just plug it in like an old serial port?

Hmm...I thought it would take setting up for shared files, not just
plug 'n pray....

How do you get computer 1 to treat computer 2 like it's own disk
drive with that cable??

You don't. You need to set up shares on both computers and then treat
each like a node on a LAN.


And file sharing has been hacked into again and again....

File sharing should NEVER be setup to share the whole drive...exactly
what this device does in complete safety without all that networking
setup monstrosity nonsense. You simply plug it in and the Tornado file
managers boot on both machines. You can use either one as they are all
bi-directional between them. it simply makes it so easy....