While at the Friends of the Ballarat Botanical Gardens, Lorraine Powell showed me the proofs of the new Pictorial History of the Ballarat Botanical Gardens book. She had it on a USB stick, and she wasn't connected to the net, so we moved it to Genevieve's machine and tried to email it to me. Gmail wouldn't come to the party: it was over 25 MB. OK, what's ftp for? But how do you find it? This machine doesn't even offer to give you a Command Prompt : I had to find the Run window and start COMMAND.COM manually. And yes, ftp is still there in Microsoft machines, but the on-system firewall blocks outgoing ftp. It offered to open it for me, but I had forgotten to set binary mode, so I said no. Then I set binary mode and tried again. But this time it didn't offer to open the port for me again. Dead in the water.
Why is Microsoft such a pain to use?