[vox-tech] windows-linux connection

Brian Lavender brian at brie.com
Tue Nov 29 16:39:07 PST 2011


On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 03:18:31PM -0800, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a windoze computer and linux box sitting next to each other on
> my desk. One is a government computer, locked-down and on a secured
> network, the other on a DSL connection to the internet. I can get the
> windows computer to talk to the linux box over the internet, but it is
> far too slow for most things. The windows computer does have a
> wireless card, that can connect to any access point.
> 
> I can live with semi-slow SSH access, however, I have large files to
> move around. Are there any ways to connect these machines via USB for
> file-transfers? Any other ideas?

Bluetooth?

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Brian Lavender
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The 1980 Turing award lecture


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