Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud(beginlinux.com)
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Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud
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I just use a single laptop with a dock. Saves all the hassle of synchronisation.
Well, yes... if only. I have my two work machines... which don't go home with me... and my two personal machines. I would, however, love to have a dock to replace my work desktop.
Couldn't you just store your config files in Dropbox and make symlinks? For example, my .vimrc is a symlink to Dropbox/.vimrc
Sure, but then I have to rebuild those symlinks after install... now, I don't do installs every 30 days like some Linux users, but I do upgrade with each new release and having stuff "just work" is just simply beautiful.
Ubuntu One's killer app is Tomboy[1] which can use it to synchronize across computers and Androids[2] and is consistently the app I use the most after the terminal and browser. For everything: scribbling, grocery/shopping/todo lists, things to remember, personal wiki articles...
[1] http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/features.html [2] https://launchpad.net/tomdroid (use the beta provided as an .apk in the sidebar)
[1] http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/features.html [2] https://launchpad.net/tomdroid (use the beta provided as an .apk in the sidebar)
If you don't have a problem with commercial software, you'll probably find Evernote [1] a great improvement on Tomboy.
[1] http://evernote.com
[1] http://evernote.com
Evernote has one of the least-intuitive, most-bloated UIs I've ever seen.
I was a fan of Wunderlist, but it seems that the product is no longer updated.
I was a fan of Wunderlist, but it seems that the product is no longer updated.
I've been keeping my photos/documents synced across platforms for years with Dropbox. Ubuntu Ones service is significantly slower at this procedure... BUT, Dropbox doesn't give me the flexibility to sync my config files (or if it does, I have no idea how.)
Keeping my config files synced is immeasurably more valuable for me across my Ubuntu machines and makes a re-install much more pleasurable. I no longer need to spend the hour or so I used to setting up my software the way I like it... it just works.