The Pensieve

The other day, I was thinking of consolidating all my music collection from various machines and burn them into a DVD as a backup. There were various ways that I could have done the transfer: Extract the music back from the disk originals Copy them using a rewritable media like a pen drive or a writable media like a CD Connect over the network and copy the files I can use Samba as some of my machines are Windows based Setup a FTP server to copy files I can setup a ssh server and securely copy the files to my Linux box That was how I discovered ssh, the secure shell. I had originally been looking at setting up Samba on my Linux box, but was frightened with the possibility of it suffering a virus attach as most of the viruses / botnets would be scanning for a windows PC and this would become a backdoor for entry. The other option was ssh which was simple to setup and quite secure. It basically provides a secure way to connect to a computer that enables the ssh service. You are presented ...