What is Dropbox?
Dropbox is software that links all of your computers together via a single
folder. It is the easiest way to back up and sync files between computers.
The Dropbox Desktop Application is software that watches a folder on your
desktop computer and syncs any changes to the web and to your other
computers.
The Dropbox Website allows you to access your files on any computer from
a web browser. You can also use the Dropbox website to share your files or
folders with others.
The Dropbox mobile website and Dropbox for mobile devices allow you
to connect to your Dropbox from your pocket, so you can take your files
with you wherever you go.
Is it for me?
Transferring data between computers usually requires uploading via web forms,
connecting to network drives, carrying around thumb drives, or sending emails
with attachments to yourself and others. Dropbox makes all of these methods
obsolete. If you are looking for a better way to transfer data over the internet or
are just looking for a way to improve productivity within your team, Dropbox is
for you.
Dropbox is a double rainbow all the way.
Tips to secure and productive Hacking email address
1.
Do not send private messages
with the company account. If you
want to send personal messages
from work (and you should
probably try to minimize this),
use a freebie account like
Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo!, or Excite,
if your office permits it. The
content of your emails is less
visible to employers through
these accounts, so the private
messages you send will stay
private.
2.
Use BCC if necessary. If you must
send a group email to people
who do not know each other,
do not add their addresses to the
forms CC field; this is one
method spammers use to
harvest email addresses. Instead,
use BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) for
their addresses, and put your
own email in the forms to field.
3.Do not send form letters. Its
impolite to send form letters,
especially to your friends and
colleagues unless they are all
part of a group that is
expecting them.
4.
Do not forward chain letters. Just
do not do it. Enough said. That
includes the email that says that
if you do not forward it to 10
people you will die. I do not care how
superstitious you are, do not send
them.
5.
Be professional. Ensure your
work emails do not contain u,
afk, ty, jk and/or several
million other texting/chatroom
acronyms. These developed
because cell phones keypads
are not well-suited to writing
fully-formed words, sentences
and paragraphs. In business
communications, however, they
may give the impression of
childishness and illiteracy.
6.
Be professional, part 2: Check
tone. Be aware of the
professional (or not) relationship
between yourself and the
recipient before starting an
email. Use that to gauge what
topics are appropriate to write
or not, as well as the tone of
your writing. This may be
common sense to most, but
you had be surprised at how often
the rule is ignored.
7.
Be careful. Email is not private; it
can be intercepted anywhere en
route to its recipient. In addition,
it can live on for years in
recipient email boxes, later to
return to its sender in choice
quotations. Think before sending
email you will later regret. Cut
down on sigs. Signature files,
especially in business, should
contain as few lines as possible.
Four lines is a figure generally
agreed-upon. Email that consists
of a two-line statement and a
ten-line signature will have its
recipients rolling their eyes.
9.
May I quote you? When you
respond to an email, the original
email is quoted. Cut the most
relevant sentence from the
message to which you are
responding, preface it with a
> (if it is not already there) and
paste the quote above your
response. Delete the rest of the
original email from your
response, unless you are
responding to other points in
the original.
10.
Do not use email when you are
angry. This is a tip from Joan
Tunsalls Better, Faster Email
(non-affiliate Amazon link). While
most of the time email does not
convey your emotions,
particularly humor, it somehow
seems to transmit anger - even
when you do not intend it to
come through..
11.
Get clarification. If someone
sends you an email that upsets
you, make sure you have not
misunderstood. As mentioned
previously, emotion and tone do
not always carry over well in
email. Instead of responding
angrily, in your response, quote
the portion of text that you are
unsure of and ask the sender to
clarify. Indicate what you think it
means, if you like, then ask if
you have misunderstood.
12.
Do not spam friends. Occasionally,
company mail servers go on the
fritz and send forty-five copies
of the same email to the
recipient (personal experience).
Even if it is not your fault, it is
polite to apologize profusely to
your friend, family, or roommate.
13.
Consider the quirks of other
email systems. For example, say
that you have a friend with a
Hotmail account and want to
send a list of hyperlinks. Hotmail
does not handle hyperlinks inside
of an email very well. For
example, you cannot easily copy
the actual URL, without a bit of
effort. So anyone used to
tabbed browsing, such as with all
recent web browsers (including,
finally, IE7.x), may find it
frustrating trying to open a link
in a new tab or window. It is hard
to know about all types of email
systems, but some awareness
reduces frustrating situations
for recipients.
14.
Respond to group email
appropriately. If someone has
sent a group email that requires
a response, but only to the
sender or a couple of parties,
do not copy everyone on your
reply.
15.
Do not respond to every group
email. More specifically, it is
alright to sit out a thread of
group conversation if you are
not being addressed directly.
However, read the emails
carefully to make sure that you
are not being expected to
respond.
16.
Respect email laws and
regulations. Some countries have
very specific rules about bulk
emailing. If you use email to
promote your business, you need
to know the laws for not only
your country but probably
wherever you are emailing to.
It is a tall order, given the global
village of the Internet, but its
importance cannot be
overstated.
Communicating &
Effectiveness
Now that we have covered the
basics of emailing with manners,
it is important to make sure your
intended message is actually
getting across.
17.Use meaningful subject lines.
Write something meaningful in
the subject line, to give
recipients a clue as to what your
email is about. This is increasingly
necessary to distinguish legit
emails from spam. The latters
subject lines are are often
deceptive.
18.
Be brief. Do not send excessively
long emails if at all possible. Try
to summarize your information
so that your recipients are more
likely to read the email and
actually respond. When possible,
break long emails into numbered
point form so that recipients can
respond by reference number.
19.
Summarize. Precede a long email
with a short summary.
20.
Cheat with templates. In his Five
Fast Email Productivity Tips,
author Merlin Mann recommends
cheating -- using templates and
form letters - when you find
yourself answering (or asking)
the same questions repeatedly. A
good percentage of first-year
college students learn to do this
when writing email to family,
friends, and significant friends
back home.
21.
Use Reply All when necessary.
Usually, the common advice is to
not use reply all if other
recipients of a group email do
not need your response. But
forgetting to use reply all
when appropriate is simply
inefficient. If the vast majority of
a group needs to hear a
message, writing in individual
emails addresses will waste your
time and increase the chances
that you are going to leave
someone important out of the
email.
22.
Remember the telephone. Unless
you need a written record of a
given communication (or if the
person you are communicating
with is long distance), consider
calling (or sending a letter to)
your intended recipient instead
of an email. People often default
to writing an email because it is
quick and easy; but sometimes a
handwritten letter or phone call
can provide the personal touch
your communication really needs.
23.
If it is urgent, say so. Writing
URGENT in front of your emails
subject will make it stand out
from the crowd, and most likely
get timely attention from the
recipient. Make certain it is
urgent, however; remember how
much attention was paid to the
boy who cried wolf when his
cries really mattered.
24.
O n v a c a t i o n ? I f y o u
w i l l b e o u t o f y o u r
o f f i c e f o r a l e n g t h y
p e r i o d o f t i m e , s e t u p
a n a u t o r e s p o n d e r t o
i n f o r m w h o m e v e r e m a i l s
y o u o f y o u r a b s e n c e a n d
y o u r e x p e c t e d r e t u r n .
T h i s i s p o l i t e ( t h e
m e s s a g e i s o n l y s e n t t o
a g i v e n e m a i l o n c e ) ,
a n d i t p r e v e n t s a l o t
o f I a m w a i t i n g f o r
y o u r r e s ponse emails. A quick
warning, however, to not use an
autoresponder for your home
email; you should not advertise an
empty house.
25.
Use smileys. If you think that
something you have written might
be misunderstood in tone or
emotion, use the appropriate
smiley. It should be obvious, but
this tip does not apply to work
or other professional emails, or if
the person does not know you
already. Marketing genius Seth
Godin wrote the The Smiley
Dictionary [book], and there are
several sites with something
similar: Helvigs smiley dictionary,
the unofficial smiley dictionary,
and EFFs unofficial smiley
dictionary.
Do not send private messages
with the company account. If you
want to send personal messages
from work (and you should
probably try to minimize this),
use a freebie account like
Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo!, or Excite,
if your office permits it. The
content of your emails is less
visible to employers through
these accounts, so the private
messages you send will stay
private.
2.
Use BCC if necessary. If you must
send a group email to people
who do not know each other,
do not add their addresses to the
forms CC field; this is one
method spammers use to
harvest email addresses. Instead,
use BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) for
their addresses, and put your
own email in the forms to field.
3.Do not send form letters. Its
impolite to send form letters,
especially to your friends and
colleagues unless they are all
part of a group that is
expecting them.
4.
Do not forward chain letters. Just
do not do it. Enough said. That
includes the email that says that
if you do not forward it to 10
people you will die. I do not care how
superstitious you are, do not send
them.
5.
Be professional. Ensure your
work emails do not contain u,
afk, ty, jk and/or several
million other texting/chatroom
acronyms. These developed
because cell phones keypads
are not well-suited to writing
fully-formed words, sentences
and paragraphs. In business
communications, however, they
may give the impression of
childishness and illiteracy.
6.
Be professional, part 2: Check
tone. Be aware of the
professional (or not) relationship
between yourself and the
recipient before starting an
email. Use that to gauge what
topics are appropriate to write
or not, as well as the tone of
your writing. This may be
common sense to most, but
you had be surprised at how often
the rule is ignored.
7.
Be careful. Email is not private; it
can be intercepted anywhere en
route to its recipient. In addition,
it can live on for years in
recipient email boxes, later to
return to its sender in choice
quotations. Think before sending
email you will later regret. Cut
down on sigs. Signature files,
especially in business, should
contain as few lines as possible.
Four lines is a figure generally
agreed-upon. Email that consists
of a two-line statement and a
ten-line signature will have its
recipients rolling their eyes.
9.
May I quote you? When you
respond to an email, the original
email is quoted. Cut the most
relevant sentence from the
message to which you are
responding, preface it with a
> (if it is not already there) and
paste the quote above your
response. Delete the rest of the
original email from your
response, unless you are
responding to other points in
the original.
10.
Do not use email when you are
angry. This is a tip from Joan
Tunsalls Better, Faster Email
(non-affiliate Amazon link). While
most of the time email does not
convey your emotions,
particularly humor, it somehow
seems to transmit anger - even
when you do not intend it to
come through..
11.
Get clarification. If someone
sends you an email that upsets
you, make sure you have not
misunderstood. As mentioned
previously, emotion and tone do
not always carry over well in
email. Instead of responding
angrily, in your response, quote
the portion of text that you are
unsure of and ask the sender to
clarify. Indicate what you think it
means, if you like, then ask if
you have misunderstood.
12.
Do not spam friends. Occasionally,
company mail servers go on the
fritz and send forty-five copies
of the same email to the
recipient (personal experience).
Even if it is not your fault, it is
polite to apologize profusely to
your friend, family, or roommate.
13.
Consider the quirks of other
email systems. For example, say
that you have a friend with a
Hotmail account and want to
send a list of hyperlinks. Hotmail
does not handle hyperlinks inside
of an email very well. For
example, you cannot easily copy
the actual URL, without a bit of
effort. So anyone used to
tabbed browsing, such as with all
recent web browsers (including,
finally, IE7.x), may find it
frustrating trying to open a link
in a new tab or window. It is hard
to know about all types of email
systems, but some awareness
reduces frustrating situations
for recipients.
14.
Respond to group email
appropriately. If someone has
sent a group email that requires
a response, but only to the
sender or a couple of parties,
do not copy everyone on your
reply.
15.
Do not respond to every group
email. More specifically, it is
alright to sit out a thread of
group conversation if you are
not being addressed directly.
However, read the emails
carefully to make sure that you
are not being expected to
respond.
16.
Respect email laws and
regulations. Some countries have
very specific rules about bulk
emailing. If you use email to
promote your business, you need
to know the laws for not only
your country but probably
wherever you are emailing to.
It is a tall order, given the global
village of the Internet, but its
importance cannot be
overstated.
Communicating &
Effectiveness
Now that we have covered the
basics of emailing with manners,
it is important to make sure your
intended message is actually
getting across.
17.Use meaningful subject lines.
Write something meaningful in
the subject line, to give
recipients a clue as to what your
email is about. This is increasingly
necessary to distinguish legit
emails from spam. The latters
subject lines are are often
deceptive.
18.
Be brief. Do not send excessively
long emails if at all possible. Try
to summarize your information
so that your recipients are more
likely to read the email and
actually respond. When possible,
break long emails into numbered
point form so that recipients can
respond by reference number.
19.
Summarize. Precede a long email
with a short summary.
20.
Cheat with templates. In his Five
Fast Email Productivity Tips,
author Merlin Mann recommends
cheating -- using templates and
form letters - when you find
yourself answering (or asking)
the same questions repeatedly. A
good percentage of first-year
college students learn to do this
when writing email to family,
friends, and significant friends
back home.
21.
Use Reply All when necessary.
Usually, the common advice is to
not use reply all if other
recipients of a group email do
not need your response. But
forgetting to use reply all
when appropriate is simply
inefficient. If the vast majority of
a group needs to hear a
message, writing in individual
emails addresses will waste your
time and increase the chances
that you are going to leave
someone important out of the
email.
22.
Remember the telephone. Unless
you need a written record of a
given communication (or if the
person you are communicating
with is long distance), consider
calling (or sending a letter to)
your intended recipient instead
of an email. People often default
to writing an email because it is
quick and easy; but sometimes a
handwritten letter or phone call
can provide the personal touch
your communication really needs.
23.
If it is urgent, say so. Writing
URGENT in front of your emails
subject will make it stand out
from the crowd, and most likely
get timely attention from the
recipient. Make certain it is
urgent, however; remember how
much attention was paid to the
boy who cried wolf when his
cries really mattered.
24.
O n v a c a t i o n ? I f y o u
w i l l b e o u t o f y o u r
o f f i c e f o r a l e n g t h y
p e r i o d o f t i m e , s e t u p
a n a u t o r e s p o n d e r t o
i n f o r m w h o m e v e r e m a i l s
y o u o f y o u r a b s e n c e a n d
y o u r e x p e c t e d r e t u r n .
T h i s i s p o l i t e ( t h e
m e s s a g e i s o n l y s e n t t o
a g i v e n e m a i l o n c e ) ,
a n d i t p r e v e n t s a l o t
o f I a m w a i t i n g f o r
y o u r r e s ponse emails. A quick
warning, however, to not use an
autoresponder for your home
email; you should not advertise an
empty house.
25.
Use smileys. If you think that
something you have written might
be misunderstood in tone or
emotion, use the appropriate
smiley. It should be obvious, but
this tip does not apply to work
or other professional emails, or if
the person does not know you
already. Marketing genius Seth
Godin wrote the The Smiley
Dictionary [book], and there are
several sites with something
similar: Helvigs smiley dictionary,
the unofficial smiley dictionary,
and EFFs unofficial smiley
dictionary.
Track Anyone Just By Sending Mail e-Mail
Well you wanna track your victim or
want to get his IP, location,
browser settings, language or
timings....
All you have to do is get his e-mail id...
Once u have it.
Go to
http://www.readnotify.com
Register there...
Once registered. . . send a mail to your victim by the email id that you registered at readnotify.com
But before sending the mail just
add ".readnotify.com" with the
victims id.. for example
xxxx@yahoo.com.readnotify.com
and then send it...
when ever victim opens it his all
the info will be mailed to u.
which can be very useful for the
hackers.
Note = You can also change the
settings in
http://www.readnotify.com
want to get his IP, location,
browser settings, language or
timings....
All you have to do is get his e-mail id...
Once u have it.
Go to
http://www.readnotify.com
Register there...
Once registered. . . send a mail to your victim by the email id that you registered at readnotify.com
But before sending the mail just
add ".readnotify.com" with the
victims id.. for example
xxxx@yahoo.com.readnotify.com
and then send it...
when ever victim opens it his all
the info will be mailed to u.
which can be very useful for the
hackers.
Note = You can also change the
settings in
http://www.readnotify.com
Password Cards
I am actually surprised that I have not blogged this already. This is a topic that is right up my alley, so it definitely belongs here.
How many times have you been told that you need to use secure passwords? This includes using uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. You are told to make your password hard to guess, lengthy and to not write it down. Further, you should not use the same password on multiple sites, but keep them all separate.
Now, ask yourself this question seriously: Do I do this?
I did not. Then I started seeing close friends and family members Twitter, Facebook and Google accounts hacked. It was a sharp lesson for them to use strong passwords, and motivated me to get my passwords in order as I should. Unfortunately, this is a royal pain the rear. I probably use a dozen services on the web regularly, not to mention my operating system accounts for work and home. My list of passwords is quite lengthy. Is there a way to keep them straight?
Fortunately, there is. Welcome http://passwordcard.org. The idea is simple: generate a password card that has your passwords printed in the card IN PLAIN TEXT. Carry the card with you in your wallet or purse, and you have access to strong passwords, for every account you have, and should an attacker get access to your card, there are practically infinite possibilities that your password could be. There is a catch, though.
As you can see in the screenshot, there are 8 colored rows and 29 columns with various symbols across the top. On the site, you enter a number (a hexadecimal number actually) to generate your unique card. You can decide whether or not to include symbols and to have an area with only numbers. After generating your card, print it out, laminate it, and stuff it in your wallet/purse. Now, when creating new accounts choose a password starting from a certain column and row, and going 8/10/etc characters from there. For example, maybe you have a Facebook account. You could start at the smiley column on the dark blue line, and move 10 characters to the right (in this screeshot, that would be: X#szN#g2e5). This would be your Facebook password. Of course, all you need to remember is the for your Facebook password, the direction of the password and its length.
Of course, you can travel any direction on the card that you wish. Maybe you want to go down, right, left or up. Maybe you want to travel in a diagonal fashion, maybe even rebounding off the walls at 90-degree angles. Swirl out or in. Not only direction, but length as well. Rather than a static 8 or 10 characters, maybe the length of your password is at least 10 characters or including 3 symbols, whichever is most. You get the idea. It is probably best to keep the travel direction and password length the same for all passwords, so you do not have to remember too much. After all, we want this secure, but we want it easy to recall from memory as well.
So, in other words, all you need to remember is:
* The hexadecimal number that generated your card (in case you need to regenerate it).
* The starting point (symbol and color) for your password.
* The directional path the password takes.
* The password length.
* Your wallet/purse.
Now, at this point, you can change all the account passwords that you have. Google, Yahoo!, Twitter, Facebook, OpenID, your Windows/Mac/Ubuntu system password, etc. I have done this with all my accounts that I commonly access. I admit that it is a bit of a pain to pull out the card from my wallet a lot when logging into various accounts. However, as I continue to login, I begin memorizing the password, and it becomes less of an issue. I have already memorized a few of them.
Because your wallet/purse is likely the most tracked item in your possession, minus maybe your kids, it makes sense to put your password card in it. It is secure. Further, you can access the site via secure HTTP, and they have a mobile site for Android/iPhone/Blackberry phones.
Now, as awesome as this is, I have a couple gripes
1. I do not like that I must use a hexadecimal number to generate the unique card. I do not understand why any string of text would not work. The hexadecimal requirement is perplexing to me.
2. Further, I live in the India, and when including symbols in the output, the Rupee, Dollar and Euro symbols are included in the output (as you can see above). I do not have immediate access to those symbols on my keyboard, as they are not universal. So, it took a bit to generate a card for me that did not include those symbols in the output.
3. Lastly, this service is not Free Software. IE: the code for generating the card has not been released. I imagine this would be rather trivial to code in Python or similar, but for the time being, its Software as a Service. I am okay with that.
I have been using this for my passwords for a few months now, and I love it. I have showed my friends, and it is generated good discussion. It is not a big deal for me to pull out the card, type in my password, and move on. If you are skeptical, give it a shot on one of your accounts, and see how it works. If you like it, move on to using more accounts. I think you will find it is worth it.
How many times have you been told that you need to use secure passwords? This includes using uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. You are told to make your password hard to guess, lengthy and to not write it down. Further, you should not use the same password on multiple sites, but keep them all separate.
Now, ask yourself this question seriously: Do I do this?
I did not. Then I started seeing close friends and family members Twitter, Facebook and Google accounts hacked. It was a sharp lesson for them to use strong passwords, and motivated me to get my passwords in order as I should. Unfortunately, this is a royal pain the rear. I probably use a dozen services on the web regularly, not to mention my operating system accounts for work and home. My list of passwords is quite lengthy. Is there a way to keep them straight?
Fortunately, there is. Welcome http://passwordcard.org. The idea is simple: generate a password card that has your passwords printed in the card IN PLAIN TEXT. Carry the card with you in your wallet or purse, and you have access to strong passwords, for every account you have, and should an attacker get access to your card, there are practically infinite possibilities that your password could be. There is a catch, though.
As you can see in the screenshot, there are 8 colored rows and 29 columns with various symbols across the top. On the site, you enter a number (a hexadecimal number actually) to generate your unique card. You can decide whether or not to include symbols and to have an area with only numbers. After generating your card, print it out, laminate it, and stuff it in your wallet/purse. Now, when creating new accounts choose a password starting from a certain column and row, and going 8/10/etc characters from there. For example, maybe you have a Facebook account. You could start at the smiley column on the dark blue line, and move 10 characters to the right (in this screeshot, that would be: X#szN#g2e5). This would be your Facebook password. Of course, all you need to remember is the
Of course, you can travel any direction on the card that you wish. Maybe you want to go down, right, left or up. Maybe you want to travel in a diagonal fashion, maybe even rebounding off the walls at 90-degree angles. Swirl out or in. Not only direction, but length as well. Rather than a static 8 or 10 characters, maybe the length of your password is at least 10 characters or including 3 symbols, whichever is most. You get the idea. It is probably best to keep the travel direction and password length the same for all passwords, so you do not have to remember too much. After all, we want this secure, but we want it easy to recall from memory as well.
So, in other words, all you need to remember is:
* The hexadecimal number that generated your card (in case you need to regenerate it).
* The starting point (symbol and color) for your password.
* The directional path the password takes.
* The password length.
* Your wallet/purse.
Now, at this point, you can change all the account passwords that you have. Google, Yahoo!, Twitter, Facebook, OpenID, your Windows/Mac/Ubuntu system password, etc. I have done this with all my accounts that I commonly access. I admit that it is a bit of a pain to pull out the card from my wallet a lot when logging into various accounts. However, as I continue to login, I begin memorizing the password, and it becomes less of an issue. I have already memorized a few of them.
Because your wallet/purse is likely the most tracked item in your possession, minus maybe your kids, it makes sense to put your password card in it. It is secure. Further, you can access the site via secure HTTP, and they have a mobile site for Android/iPhone/Blackberry phones.
Now, as awesome as this is, I have a couple gripes
1. I do not like that I must use a hexadecimal number to generate the unique card. I do not understand why any string of text would not work. The hexadecimal requirement is perplexing to me.
2. Further, I live in the India, and when including symbols in the output, the Rupee, Dollar and Euro symbols are included in the output (as you can see above). I do not have immediate access to those symbols on my keyboard, as they are not universal. So, it took a bit to generate a card for me that did not include those symbols in the output.
3. Lastly, this service is not Free Software. IE: the code for generating the card has not been released. I imagine this would be rather trivial to code in Python or similar, but for the time being, its Software as a Service. I am okay with that.
I have been using this for my passwords for a few months now, and I love it. I have showed my friends, and it is generated good discussion. It is not a big deal for me to pull out the card, type in my password, and move on. If you are skeptical, give it a shot on one of your accounts, and see how it works. If you like it, move on to using more accounts. I think you will find it is worth it.
Migrating Data From One Computer To Another in Linux
There comes a time when a computer user gets a new machine and has to migrate his/her data. This is far from a fun experience. Would not it be nice if you could have all your files and settings transfered to the new machine? I am sure there are many ways to go about this, but this is the way I did it using rsync.
For claritys sake, commands run on the old machine will be pink and commands run on the new machine will be blue.
First, I installed rsync and openssh on both machines using the package manager. For openssh you need at least the server on the old machine and the client on the new one.
Ubuntu/Mint: $ sudo aptitude install rsync openssh-server
Ubuntu/Mint: $ sudo aptitude install rsync openssh-client
Arch Linux (as root): # pacman -Sy rsync openssh
Arch Linux (as root): # pacman -Sy rsync openssh
Secondly, you will need to have both your machines on the same network. I have a wireless router at home, so that simplified things having both laptops connect to the local network. However, a 802.11b wireless network plus ~30GB of data makes for a lot of waiting while things are copied over. If you do not have a home network, you could use a crossover cable to connect the two machines together. Basically, make sure the machines can ping each other. You may need to change the firewall settings to allow a connection to the SSH server. Then, start up the Open SSH server on the old one.
Ubuntu/Mint: $ sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
Arch Linux (as root): # /etc/rc.d/sshd restart
Thirdly, we will create a folder where we will put all our data and then copy the files over.
Ubuntu/Mint/Arch: $ mkdir ~/
Ubuntu/Mint/Arch: $ rsync -avz --progress@:/home// ~/
E.g. $ rsync -avz --progress shane@192.168.16.100:/home/shane/ ~/from-old-machine
You will be prompted for the password of the user on the old machine. Once it starts, sit back and wait. If the transfer gets interrupted you can resume it later with the same command. If a file has been modified on the old machine after if has been copied over, it will be updated. See the rsync man page for more info. If you want any settings from your old machine e.g. your Firefox plugins, saved passwords and bookmarks, move the ~/from-old-machine/.mozilla folder to ~/.
If you want the entire setup to be transfered over as is, log out from the GUI on the new machine and log in on a virtual terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1). This will delete all user files and settings on the new machine. Run:
Ubuntu/Mint/Arch: $ rm -rf ~/* ~/.??*
Ubuntu/Mint/Arch: $ rsync -avz --progress shane@192.168.16.100:/home/shane/ ~/
Enjoy your new computer!
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For claritys sake, commands run on the old machine will be pink and commands run on the new machine will be blue.
First, I installed rsync and openssh on both machines using the package manager. For openssh you need at least the server on the old machine and the client on the new one.
Ubuntu/Mint: $ sudo aptitude install rsync openssh-server
Ubuntu/Mint: $ sudo aptitude install rsync openssh-client
Arch Linux (as root): # pacman -Sy rsync openssh
Arch Linux (as root): # pacman -Sy rsync openssh
Secondly, you will need to have both your machines on the same network. I have a wireless router at home, so that simplified things having both laptops connect to the local network. However, a 802.11b wireless network plus ~30GB of data makes for a lot of waiting while things are copied over. If you do not have a home network, you could use a crossover cable to connect the two machines together. Basically, make sure the machines can ping each other. You may need to change the firewall settings to allow a connection to the SSH server. Then, start up the Open SSH server on the old one.
Ubuntu/Mint: $ sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
Arch Linux (as root): # /etc/rc.d/sshd restart
Thirdly, we will create a folder where we will put all our data and then copy the files over.
Ubuntu/Mint/Arch: $ mkdir ~/
Ubuntu/Mint/Arch: $ rsync -avz --progress
E.g. $ rsync -avz --progress shane@192.168.16.100:/home/shane/ ~/from-old-machine
You will be prompted for the password of the user on the old machine. Once it starts, sit back and wait. If the transfer gets interrupted you can resume it later with the same command. If a file has been modified on the old machine after if has been copied over, it will be updated. See the rsync man page for more info. If you want any settings from your old machine e.g. your Firefox plugins, saved passwords and bookmarks, move the ~/from-old-machine/.mozilla folder to ~/.
If you want the entire setup to be transfered over as is, log out from the GUI on the new machine and log in on a virtual terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1). This will delete all user files and settings on the new machine. Run:
Ubuntu/Mint/Arch: $ rm -rf ~/* ~/.??*
Ubuntu/Mint/Arch: $ rsync -avz --progress shane@192.168.16.100:/home/shane/ ~/
Enjoy your new computer!
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