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    http://xkcd.com/949/[^] OK, so a question. Be honest - how many of you have emailed yourself a file as the easiest way to transfer it? I hold my hand up and say "I have".

    Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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      http://xkcd.com/949/[^] OK, so a question. Be honest - how many of you have emailed yourself a file as the easiest way to transfer it? I hold my hand up and say "I have".

      Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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      Dalek Dave
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      Yes. Many times.

      ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]

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        http://xkcd.com/949/[^] OK, so a question. Be honest - how many of you have emailed yourself a file as the easiest way to transfer it? I hold my hand up and say "I have".

        Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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        DaveAuld
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        OriginalGriff wrote:

        how many of you have emailed yourself a file as the easiest way to transfer it

        Sure have, all the time!

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        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

          http://xkcd.com/949/[^] OK, so a question. Be honest - how many of you have emailed yourself a file as the easiest way to transfer it? I hold my hand up and say "I have".

          Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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          vonb
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          just did it a week ago (Terminal server did not want to translate code snippets in a word doc to import, so I send it to myself on the Internet Terminal Server, got the notification on my local machine, e voila...)

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          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

            http://xkcd.com/949/[^] OK, so a question. Be honest - how many of you have emailed yourself a file as the easiest way to transfer it? I hold my hand up and say "I have".

            Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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            Nagy Vilmos
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            All the time. Most days I'll e-mail whatever I'm working on to my home account and carry on with it of the evening, then e-mail it back. I could always just RDT in to my work machine ...


            Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

              http://xkcd.com/949/[^] OK, so a question. Be honest - how many of you have emailed yourself a file as the easiest way to transfer it? I hold my hand up and say "I have".

              Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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              Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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              Tons of times.

              If the post was helpful, please vote, eh! Current activities: Playing Star Craft II. Don't bother me, eh? Now and forever, defiant to the end. What is Multiple Sclerosis[^]? Food[]

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              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                http://xkcd.com/949/[^] OK, so a question. Be honest - how many of you have emailed yourself a file as the easiest way to transfer it? I hold my hand up and say "I have".

                Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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                BobJanova
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                Yes. I've also hosted it on a HTTP server on one machine, and downloaded it from another, to transfer it across the room. Good old Windows Networking not, well, working (but still letting TCP and DNS work).

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                  All the time. Most days I'll e-mail whatever I'm working on to my home account and carry on with it of the evening, then e-mail it back. I could always just RDT in to my work machine ...


                  Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                  Aamir Butt
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                  Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                  Most days I'll e-mail whatever I'm working on to my home account and carry on with it of the evening, then e-mail it back.

                  I use Dropbox for this now. However, I have emailed myself countless times.

                  A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God

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                    http://xkcd.com/949/[^] OK, so a question. Be honest - how many of you have emailed yourself a file as the easiest way to transfer it? I hold my hand up and say "I have".

                    Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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                    Lost User
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                    Sometimes. Normally I just drag it onto my phone, which tends to be connected by usb when at work. I have e-mailed a file just so I can connect to our corporate webmail at a user's machine and download it from the sent items a few times too.

                    Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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                      http://xkcd.com/949/[^] OK, so a question. Be honest - how many of you have emailed yourself a file as the easiest way to transfer it? I hold my hand up and say "I have".

                      Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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                      Mycroft Holmes
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                      It's the ONLY way I can get files from the office to the home machine and woe betide you if there is something sensitive in the attachment.

                      Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                        http://xkcd.com/949/[^] OK, so a question. Be honest - how many of you have emailed yourself a file as the easiest way to transfer it? I hold my hand up and say "I have".

                        Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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                        Dan Neely
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                        Yup.

                        Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                          http://xkcd.com/949/[^] OK, so a question. Be honest - how many of you have emailed yourself a file as the easiest way to transfer it? I hold my hand up and say "I have".

                          Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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                          PIEBALDconsult
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                          Yes. I just started a new contract, and I'm not allowed to attach anything to the company's computer. On my last contract, I was in the habit of backing up my stuff to a flash drive, but occasionally the system would pop up a warning that the file being copied might contain sensitive data.

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                            http://xkcd.com/949/[^] OK, so a question. Be honest - how many of you have emailed yourself a file as the easiest way to transfer it? I hold my hand up and say "I have".

                            Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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                            Vark111
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                            Actually, I can honestly say never - at least in the context of the strip. I have emailed files from home to work and vice-versa, but those are different email addresses. Never emailed to the same email address that I was sitting in front of at the time. Mostly because I've never had an internet-based email address (e.g. gmail).

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                              http://xkcd.com/949/[^] OK, so a question. Be honest - how many of you have emailed yourself a file as the easiest way to transfer it? I hold my hand up and say "I have".

                              Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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                              GenJerDan
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                              Well, since USB is disabled here, along with a dearth of blank CD/DVDs, I quite often email myself .piz and .xex files. Oh. Did I forget to mention that attachments of potential evil are automatically deleted by the #$@#! mail server?

                              Just like that old Carly Simon song... "You're so funny, You probably think this joke is about you" My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.

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                                http://xkcd.com/949/[^] OK, so a question. Be honest - how many of you have emailed yourself a file as the easiest way to transfer it? I hold my hand up and say "I have".

                                Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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                                gavindon
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                                Many times, but nowadays I have logmein pro here at work and I can just log in to the target pc and it handles file transfers, even large ones.

                                Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow. You can't scare me, I have children.

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                                  http://xkcd.com/949/[^] OK, so a question. Be honest - how many of you have emailed yourself a file as the easiest way to transfer it? I hold my hand up and say "I have".

                                  Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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                                  Peter Mulholland
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                                  I regulary email myself pdf books/documents so that I can open them in my iPod.

                                  Pete

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