[Probes]

I'm trying to half hintch a lot of autocad drawings from a place I'm working at... they're my drawings so in theory I aint stealing yeh  . There's probably a few hundred so burning them to cds isnt really an option, is there anyway of me just copy/paste straight across to the net, and that isnt going to cost me much?
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[abarro81]

put them all in a folder then on dropbox? (dropbox.com)

[slackline]

Cloud Storage

Dropbox, Box, all the others mentioned there.

Alternatively get a USB flash drive for fuck all and walk out with it in your pocket.

[Probes]

My computer abilities cover flash drives so i did think that... the fella I work for is virtually next to my pc so it would raise suspicions. Drop box sounds the way. I reckon there's about 10gig of stuff though?

[slackline]

You don't get 10Gb on a free account, but you could see if compressing it first (using 7zip should be straightforward).

You could just say the drive is for some music (& make sure you've some music files on there) 

Or go into work when he's not there?

[slackline]

A third (slightly more technical solution) is to sFTP them straight to your home computer, but you'd have to make sure the correct port is open/forwarded on your router, and that your computer is configured to allow such connections (no idea how to do this on M$-Win I'm afraid).

[Probes]

A third (slightly more technical solution) is to sFTP them straight to your home computer, but you'd have to make sure the correct port is open/forwarded on your router, and that your computer is configured to allow such connections (no idea how to do this on M$-Win I'm afraid).

  ermmmmm

Just looked, 2gb on dropbox for free so i should be able to do it over the week, emptying it daily. Cool. I assume its been going a while this dropbox? Cracking idea.

[Serpico]

A third (slightly more technical solution) is to sFTP them straight to your home computer, but you'd have to make sure the correct port is open/forwarded on your router, and that your computer is configured to allow such connections (no idea how to do this on M$-Win I'm afraid).

  ermmmmm

Just looked, 2gb on dropbox for free so i should be able to do it over the week, emptying it daily. Cool. I assume its been going a while this dropbox? Cracking idea.

Have you signed up yet? A bit of extra free storage for both of us if you do it via this link.
 I bet Slackers beat me to it in a pm....

[Probes]

A third (slightly more technical solution) is to sFTP them straight to your home computer, but you'd have to make sure the correct port is open/forwarded on your router, and that your computer is configured to allow such connections (no idea how to do this on M$-Win I'm afraid).

  ermmmmm

Just looked, 2gb on dropbox for free so i should be able to do it over the week, emptying it daily. Cool. I assume its been going a while this dropbox? Cracking idea.

Have you signed up yet? A bit of extra free storage for both of us if you do it via this link.
 I bet Slackers beat me to it in a pm....

hahaha yes

[slackline]

 

[Probes]

and it automatically synchronises it with my pc!      yo dat iz some funky shit

[slackline]

You need to have Dropbox installed and running on every computer you want to access things from, so stick it on your work machine, copy 2.5Gb of files over to a folder within there.  It will start uploading them to online.

Install it on your home computer when you get home and let it sit there and it will download all those files to your home computer.

When thats done copy them to somewhere else on your home computer and delete from Dropbox.

Repeat until you have everything you want at home.

[Probes]

Cool, cheers, yeah I'm on it now. Let the robbery begin.

[rodma]

If you have a phone with any decent memory, you could prob transfer the files onto its card and rather than looking like stealing, it would look like charging (not that i would do such a thing obv.)

[slackline]

<geeky pedant>'memory' usually refers to RAM (Random Access Memory) and is the stuff where running programs have data/info stored about what they are doing, storage is what holds data (fies and programs before they are run) and is whats inside the hard discs, solid state drives, flash drives, and SD cards.</geeky pedant>.

Obviously this doesn't change what is a sneaky idea 

If you do have a smartphone Probes, grab the Dropbox client, its an easy way of getting things onto your phone when you're not at home (providing of course its something that resides in your Dropbox folder!).

[rodma]

ummmm, I guess i believe you, but i can't even pretend to understand.

[slackline]

ummmm, I guess i believe you, but i can't even pretend to understand.

RAM v's Storage

Basically memory (as its traditionally used) is volatile and loses anything in it when power is removed, storage such as hard-drives, USB flash drives, solid state drives, SD cards, CD/DVD/Blu-Ray is non-volatile and keeps information essentially permanently.

[rodma]

ummmm, I guess i believe you, but i can't even pretend to understand.

RAM v's Storage

Basically memory (as its traditionally used) is volatile and loses anything in it when power is removed, storage such as hard-drives, USB flash drives, solid state drives, SD cards, CD/DVD/Blu-Ray is non-volatile and keeps information essentially permanently.

Ok, thanks, but this is waaaay too much new information for a friday afternoon, but i like the idea that my memory works as per the definition (if you consider sleeping as losing power)

[Johnny Brown]

I no geek but if that was the convention they shouldn't have called them 'memory cards' and 'memory sticks' then, but then my first ever computer lesson in the eighties I remember referring to RAM and ROM, not memory and storage.

[Probes]

Mine is more of the hard disc variety (full), memory has to be deleted in order to retain new. It also has a segment errors around 1996/7.

No have I bollocks got a smart phone...  my world is complicated enough without all those goings on...  Ive only just bought a mp3 player, which has proved a right twat trying to get my tapes onto it.  And, if I had one id be for ever getting emails about work.. shiver.