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I'd say logmein.com is secure enough, Polter-Cow. It's been around for many years and I've never heard of any problems with it.
Ooh, thanks. I'll look into it. I think I would find it most useful for, say, starting my Skins ahem so it's ready for me when I get home. And finding people's e-mail addresses in my Outlook Express at home. And uploading music that I have at home. I...think I could find many uses for it.
Some of the Firefly server how-tos included how to get to your home iTunes collection from anywhere on the internet. How freaking cool is that? Static IPs for all!
the shuffle charges thru the headphone jack. The iPhone needs a dock connector to charge.
Polter-Cow - you watch Skins?
the shuffle charges thru the headphone jack. The iPhone needs a dock connector to charge.
I noted that, and was disproportionately smug.
amych, did you get Firefly set up over the weekend?
I did. I had some issues that weren't actually related to Firefly but to Stupid Unix Fuckup #412 (vfat volumes need umask to get write/execute permissions. A fact which I should bloody well know because I've stomped the exact same thing at least twice before...) But since that got sorted, everything's been smooth.
Current setup is: Household library on a big fat hard drive on the upstairs box, which is attached to the crazy home theatre madness. Listening to said tunes as a shared library on my laptop's iTunes.
And you both synch to the upstairs box, right?
Cool.
I really need to update the home network here, but I'm not sure I have the energy to do it. We've got 2 wireless systems and a Gigabit backbone, but there are so many devices on things that it just makes my head hurt thinking about streamlining it. I've just been adding things as needed since we moved in. I'd really like to centralize the iTunes stuff, but then I need to automate syncing it to a bus powered portable drive as well, so that I can have it with me when I travel.
And you both synch to the upstairs box, right?
Yep. We consolidated all our music files after way too long of trying to track which things we had on this box or that one (or -- *shudder* -- both), and for us that was the impetus for figuring out the house-wide sharing.
BTW, I think I mentioned the other day that 6G pods were rumored not to play with Linux, but of course that was cracked as soon as they came out -- any jukebox software that works with libgpod should be able to handle synching (which includes the Linux biggies like rhythmbox, amarok, and exaile).