Saturday, July 06, 2002

Your Windows to OS X Integration Tip of the Day: How to Move Your Windows MP3 Files to Your iBook / iMac / TiBook. Your Windows to OS X Integration Tip of the Day: How to Move Your Windows MP3 Files to Your iBook / iMac / TiBook Running OSX Comment: This approach can be used to copy ANY file or group of files to your OSX machine, not just MP3 files. Since a trip to see Paolo / eVectors  is coming up, it's clearly important that we be ready to go.  And, in today's multimedia era, that doesn't mean putting "My Documents" on your laptop, it means putting N gigabytes of MP3 files on your laptop (note that N is a large decimal number > than 5; for us the complete MP3 collection is 13.56 gigabytes).  So I needed an easy way to do it.  Here's how. On Windows.  Install Putty / PSCP.  PSCP or "Putty Secure Copy".  Putty is one of the best if not the best SSH, i.e. secure shell, clients and PSCP is the equivalent to the standard *nix scp command (secure copy).  Copy the pscp.exe into winnt or any directory in your path statement.  If you aren't an SSH user then you really should be.  SSH lets you login to a remote *nix system just like Telnet but all data is encrypted (it's a Secure Shell).  Open a DOS shell window. Go to the directory with your MP3 files. If you just want the MP3 files copied to your iBook in your Documents folder then use the command line below.  Since on my lan the iBook doesn't have a dns name, I'm copying to the IP address, not to a machine name.  If you have a local machine name then substitute that for the machine name. pscp -r *.mp3 gcahaly@192.168.1.102:/Documents Explanation: pscp is the copy command -r tells it to "recurse" or walk the directory tree of all directories below the current one *.mp3 is the specification of files to move to the target computer gcahaly is the user on the target computer that you want to own the files 192.168.1.102 is the target computer :/Documents is the target directory Here's another example of when I moved a single directory of MP3 files off to my Linux laptop: pscp -r *.mp3 sjohnson@192.168.1.100:/home/sjohnson/mp3/buffymusical1 Here I was moving files into my /home/mp3/buffymusical1 directory (I had navigated to the appropriate directory where my MP3 files were stored). NOTE: I did this a day or two ago and Gretchen has the iBook right now so I am doing this from memory.  It should be right but if anyone has problems then just let me know.  I also created a category for any OSX writings I do at: http://radio.weblogs.com/0103807/categories/OSX/ [The FuzzyBlog!] 3:17:09 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

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Business 101: Cross Managing or How do I manage an Equal?. Business 101: Cross Managing or How do I manage an Equal? We've all heard of the idea of managing up i.e. when you manage your own boss.  And then there's the normal concept of managing down when you manage people that report to you.  This article introduces the idea of "cross managing" or managing people that are your equals, generally your business partner.  So how do you manage an equal?  Simple: You don't.  ==> Read Story <== [The FuzzyBlog!] 2:13:23 PM    trackback []     Articulate []