Comments on: It really is about the Pipes! http://www.loudmouthman.com/2006/11/23/it-really-is-about-the-pipes/ Social Networker and Opinioneer Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:01:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Dominic http://www.loudmouthman.com/2006/11/23/it-really-is-about-the-pipes/#comment-20 Dominic Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:46:49 +0000 http://www.loudmouthman.com/2006/11/23/it-really-is-about-the-pipes/#comment-20 Keeping everything synchronized can be a major chore: I have an Ubuntu laptop, a PC that might be running Ubuntu or Gentoo depending on when it was last rebooted, and a USB drive that runs FOSS on a firewalled Windows machine. Google's sync extension can help with Firefox, but I keep having to log into a remote machine and/or mount another partition and transfer files manually. Anybody who comes up with a quick, easy, reliable, multi-platform synchronizer will certainly find himself running a very popular project! Keeping everything synchronized can be a major chore: I have an Ubuntu laptop, a PC that might be running Ubuntu or Gentoo depending on when it was last rebooted, and a USB drive that runs FOSS on a firewalled Windows machine.

Google’s sync extension can help with Firefox, but I keep having to log into a remote machine and/or mount another partition and transfer files manually.

Anybody who comes up with a quick, easy, reliable, multi-platform synchronizer will certainly find himself running a very popular project!

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