Thu 15 May 2008
Sad Day - LeechFTP surrenders to FileZilla
Posted by BJ Sintay under Software, Tech-talk
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It’s a sad day.
LeechFTP finally refused to cooperate with my Windows setup. After trying various work-arounds, disabling all firewalls, etc. I have come to the conclusion that it just won’t play nice with Vista. I had it working for about 7 months with no problems.
Tonight I had to install FileZilla just to download some files from a website. Let me tell you - I do not like the UI (user interface) in this program. To me, nothing beats the UI in LeechFTP and I am going to sincerely miss this program. I will say that FileZilla has improved the site management over the past few years, so that will make one part of this program much easier to use compared to the past. I think their management of the threads is annoying. I also do not like that the program cycles through the remote folders when it traverses them to download their contents. I cannot find a way to turn this off. I’ll keep working with FileZilla for awhile and see how it goes.
Goodbye Leech.
Wake up, Jan Debis.
This past week I reconnected with an old floppy disk game Space Quest 1 (VGA edition) by Sierra. Luckily I have backups of my floppies now, because the disks no longer work. If you’re holding on to old floppies, you may be surprised to discover that the data is no longer there! Anyways, I played the game through in about 3 hours the other night and really enjoyed it. Space Quest 1 is an old Sierra RPG in which you are a janitor given the job of saving the universe. The game is a ton of fun and was one of my favorite computer games when I was younger. What’s funny is this game has to run on DosBOX, an emulator of DOS. It’s hard to imagine we already need emulators for those games in a Windows environment.