“Windows 7 has malicious features just like Windows Vista. These include features to restrict users (Digital Restrictions Management), a back door for imposing software changes, and perhaps also the spyware features discovered in previous versions. If you don’t want to be abused, defenestrate your computer.”

Richard Stallman (RMS), President of the Free Software Foundation (Join) in an Interview with Neowin.net.

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Tonight I took a closer look at the ftp kioslave, I wanted to see if I could configure a maximum number of connections to use, as it opens multiple connections to the server and the server I want to use only accepts 3 concurrent connections. Unfortunately I didn’t find out how to achieve that goal, but I did find the following config options for it, which I’m making a note of here for my own reference and in case you find it useful. The file to edit is ~/.kde/share/config/kio_ftprc, if it doesn’t exist (and it probably doesn’t) you’ll need to create it.

To disable passive mode for the site example.com:

[example.com]
DisablePassiveMode=true

To do this for all sites not just example.com use [] instead of [example.com]

To force text mode, rather than binary mode transfers for the site example.com:

[example.com]
textmode=true


To login to a site automatically:

[example.com]
EnableAutoLogin=true
autoLoginUser=fred
autoLoginPass=secret


If anyone knows how to limit the number of concurrent connections I’d love to hear from you.