Simple Cross-Platform File Sharing with Chungles

rammerhammer writes "Sharing files amongst different platforms has most always resulted in using samba -- a program based around the windows file sharing protocol. Chungles aims to provide a nice, graphical, easy configurable file sharing alternative. It's written in Java, uses SWT for the UI, and JmDNS (Rendezvous/ZeroConf/Bonjour) for discovery of computers running Chungles."

Comments

It sounds great, but ...

[snorklewacker]

... it's called chungles.

I mean, it's useful ...but it's called chungles. It could be exactly what I'm looking for. But it's called chungles. You've maybe even read my posts, which I've written several times, about how naming shouldn't be a barrier to acceptance, that a PHB who dismisses a product by its name alone probably wasn't serious about it, that the names are whimsy but the product should be evaluated on its merits...

But it's called chungles .

My boss is very much not a PHB, and is very easy going and technically oriented. But I am not recommending to him or my co-workers that they install something named chungles.

I have my limits as well.

Re:Java?

[pyrrhonist]

Sounds like it could be a good idea; but (and please no offense to Java programmers) why Java?

You must be new here. The choice of programming language to use on a certain project depends entirely on the reaction you want from Slashdot. This is the key, as there are absolutely no other important factors that affect the choice of programming language. That's right, none. Certainly, when a group is trying to decide on what language to use for a project, there will be all this talk about what a certain language provides, available implementations for the target platform, programming skills of the group, etc. Do not fall for this malarky. Like communism, this is just a red herring. Because every language is simple, does everything, and is available on every platform, the only reason to pick one language over another is how it will be received by the Slashdot community.

To help you pick a language based on the Slashdot reaction you wish to invoke, I have compiled this handy list:

• Ambivalence: C
• Ennui: C++
• Hatred: C# (.NET)
• Ebullience: C# (Mono)
• Depression: FORTRAN
• Apathy: Ada
• Elitism: Lisp
• Paranoia: Scheme
• Confusion: Prolog
• Nostalgia: 6502 Assembly
• Nausea: 386 Assembly
• Silence: Sh
• Testiness: Tcl
• Puerileness: Ruby
• Blindness: Perl
• Laughter: VB
• Ecstasy: Python
• Ejaculation: PHP
• Total Protonic Reversal: COBOL
• Captious Whining: Java

So there you have it! You should probably print this out now and have it laminated so it will be handy when you need to pick a language for your next project.