Thursday, June 12, 2008

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Finally I have accomplished the FTP task. It has only taken me all night to figure out that I had to click on word wrap in the notepad window so that I could see the compressed message.

The question was "according to the readme file, '_________ MATTERS" - what word goes in the blank?"

My answer is CAPITALIZATION. I checked out a few of my classmates blogs only to find that I was correct.

A big thank you goes out to Zeak for his fantastic video on how to use FireFTP. Once I updated my Mozilla FireFox, I could download it and I have found it easy to use, once I figured out that I need to have the C drive set on Desktop.

I first tried to use FileZilla and kept coming up with a message asking me to overwrite the file etc. It would not let me upload it. So I enlisted the help of Owen McMahon, who suggested that I download FireFTP and watch Zeak's video. A big thank you to both.

I have to say that I found FireFTP easier to use than FileZilla, plus the layout was easier on the eyes (very tired old eyes).

Anyway it is time that I went to bed and tried to get some sleep, as tomorrow I tackle the Internet tools task. These tasks are taking more time than I thought, but then again I am great at accounting programs, but not so good on this sort of stuff.

Lets hope that by the end of this subject I may just know what all of my classmates are talking about on the discussion board eg: HTML. I know that it stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, but other than that I know nothing. haaa.

Stay tuned for the next exciting post from confused Narelle.