To all who replied: (John Hebert, Mat Branyon, Brad N Bendily, Brad N Bendily, and Abbott Mujica)
Thank you very much for your offers to help! I appreciate it greately. I have about 250Mbs of compressed data, it's mostly docs, pdf files, and software. I am running WinXP on my laptop. I do have a 10/100 NIC too. I just wish I had a broadband access at home :) It would be a pain to upload 250 Megs of data somewhere... Imagine those 2.2 Kbps :) I'm not exactly in a hurry :) and I can surely wait until the Perks meeting. We can do it then... Thank you once again, I am looking forward to meeting you all! Giovanni Tairov ************ Giovanni, How much data are you talking about? I have a parallel port zip drive, an external USB 2.0 hard drive with about 15 gig free and a burner in each of my two desktop machines. I am a Linux newbie but also pretty determined as well. I am sure we can figure out some way to get the data from one medium to another. Does your laptop have a NIC and/or USB port? What OS(s) are your running? Ed Richards ************ Giovanni, I recommend that you archive your critical files in a zip or tarball. You can use InfoZip's WiZ (http://www.info- zip.org/pub/infozip/WiZ.html), which is a free GUI based archiving tool that runs on many OSs including win32. The best compression I know of would be using bzip2 (ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/bzip2/v102/bzip2-102-x86-win32.exe). I think both of these archiving tools offer password encryption if you need to encrypt the file for privacy/security. Once you have your critical files archived, you can upload it somewhere safe. I can offer you a few GBs of filespace and I'm willing to burn a few GBs to CDs for you if need be. If you can wait until the next Perks meeting and the size of the archive is not too big, we could do it then. I figure we could easily transfer ~700MB of data from your laptop to mine and burn the CD with 2 hours, if we are both using 100bT NICs. I'll bring the crossover cable. Like Ed asked, it would be helpful to know how much data you need to archive, and also how fast your network card is. Also, do you have broadband Internet access at home? John Hebert
