My OperaUse your virtual Dropbox!
Thursday, January 8, 2009 8:08:02 PM
What's more satisfying than sharing good things with your friends? For example computer files, pictures, programmes. On your local area network between members of the family and in the big bad world, when travelling and seeking sync of files with events at the home office. The latest state of documents when you are in a meeting and the office is trying to revise things on-the-fly for instance. There are methods for this, but to do it between Windows, Linux and Mac OS-X and even iPod crisscross operating systems is a different story. That means: it was... Then now there is DropBox!
Even between my virtual operating systems Dropbox works perfectly, likewise it does between my Ubuntu and Vista after a reboot and their VirtualBox (see previous blog entry) virtual content. The content of the DropBoxes that I have assigned on each OS is perfectly in sync.
In Ubuntu and having Windows-7 on the VirtualBox I even have a further advantage: multiple concurrently active desktops, screens or 'sub-computers'. The invention of those multiple screens that concurrently run, is a highly efficient advantage of Linux, limited only by the amount of RAM-memory that I own. While I write this on the Opera browser, my neighbouring screen runs FireFox with the YouTube movie that I intend to put upfront in this text. Yes, I like that movie. So I like to copy its URL into the place above... switching my screen from YouTube back now to here using another split-second to paste the entry in place. Using DropBox in a similar way between Ubuntu and Windows-7 running in VirtualBox I have an immediate sync between both radically different systems which I can reach immediately by flipping the screens again to the resp. Dropbox folders. The limitation is: Dropbox uses the Internet as a go-between. However: that makes its possibilities even greater. Work "in the Cloud" is the way this world is heading!
John
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Angelikiellinidata # Thursday, January 8, 2009 8:41:57 PM
Mad Scientist (عادل)qlue # Thursday, January 8, 2009 8:44:45 PM
Dr. John v. Kampennepmak2000 # Thursday, January 8, 2009 8:50:47 PM
Dr. John v. Kampennepmak2000 # Thursday, January 8, 2009 9:05:30 PM
Qlue: it looks to me somewhat similar at first glance, but it isn't. Then in DropBox you sync a folder (an archive) with subfolders or files on your computer with another computer as if you have a LAN at hand. So, when you put something in the Dropbox (see the new image above of my computer, with the frog) of the XP Pro version running on VirtualBox, I immediately see that (provided an Internet connection) in my Linux Dropbox folder. But I also can make material 'public' and show that to you, so an office can sent to specific customers sales secrets...
I need not upload things. I only need to download Dropbox on my computer(s), enter for each folder one time my same entry/login code and all are connected. That goes faster than writing this and working with it is as if on a LAN.
I forgot your link url to dropbox: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmCUDHpNzE
Mad Scientist (عادل)qlue # Thursday, January 8, 2009 11:43:26 PM
Dr. John v. Kampennepmak2000 # Friday, January 9, 2009 5:38:51 AM
Mad Scientist (عادل)qlue # Friday, January 9, 2009 3:09:43 PM
Then you can have true mobile connectivity
Dr. John v. Kampennepmak2000 # Friday, January 9, 2009 3:15:15 PM
TechGuy Wasif AbbasTechGuy-Wasif # Tuesday, July 27, 2010 7:17:35 AM
Nice and informative topic.
Dr. John v. Kampennepmak2000 # Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:21:56 PM