From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A66138F14 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 20:32:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C2C5E08CA; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 20:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail0200.smtp25.com (mail0200.smtp25.com [174.37.170.200]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 013CFE08B8 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 20:31:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.14.8) with ESMTP id t6LKVqVY031690 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:31:52 -0400 From: covici@ccs.covici.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Catastrophic bug in the firefox 'ProfileManager' function In-reply-to: <20150721193509.GD9447@sys76> References: <20150720161844.1db1d485@a6> <55ADA326.2090707@gmail.com> <201507210853.59492.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20150721103850.6e3f2857@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <20150721102730.GA24682@nemesis.wraeth.lan> <20150721114103.696bd787@digimed.co.uk> <20150721110937.GB24682@nemesis.wraeth.lan> <20150721145957.47b2cd37@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <20150721193509.GD9447@sys76> Comments: In-reply-to Chris Spackman message dated "Tue, 21 Jul 2015 15:35:09 -0400." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.5; nmh 1.6; GNU Emacs 24.5.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <31688.1437510712.1@ccs.covici.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:31:52 -0400 Message-ID: <31689.1437510712@ccs.covici.com> X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 X-SpamH-Filter: s-out-001.smtp25.com-t6LKVrvj027213 X-Archives-Salt: ebc80767-e441-4104-b411-647e227c4a5f X-Archives-Hash: 20a258b6338191753081f24e212e69fe Chris Spackman wrote: > On 2015/07/21 at 02:59pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 21:09:38 +1000, wraeth wrote: > > > > > Have you tried Syncthing - http://syncthing.net/ ? > > > > No I haven't, but one of the main reasons for that is because I > > > mostly bypassed online (read: not controlled by myself) services > > > for any sort of syncing - I eyed a couple, but my primary thought > > > was to retain proper control of my data. > > > Syncthing is peer-to-peer. You can use their discovery server (or > > run your own) for clients to find one another, but data always takes > > the direct route. However, it is only for syncing, if you need the > > extra features, ownCloud works well. > > I have been using Syncthing also, for maybe a year now. It works well > once you get it set up. Recently, the Android app (in F-Droid) has > also been working well - for a while it couldn't find any of my > machines. > > Like Neil said, though, Syncthing has no extra features - it just > syncs between devices. The machines have to be online at the same time > or no syncing happens, because there is no server in the middle to > keep the data. Maybe because of this, I have had far fewer issues with > conflicting file versions with Syncthing than I had with Dropbox. > > FWIW, I tried ownCloud a couple of times and could never get it up and > running properly. I have owncloud working just fine, although I don't use it for passwords -- for those I just have a pgp key and individual files and I have an iphone app which can decrypt them. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com