Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,uk.d-i-y Subject: Re: Opensource slowing down? "GoogleDrive" private cloud Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 18:55:47 +0000 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <4khjsb-2oj.ln1@squidward.dionic.net> <54f73bc4$0$38615$b1db1813$5ba256c5@news.astraweb.com> <54f75264$0$62485$b1db1813$71902154@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net fTTF5fDxUZKr6Vjr09LC2Alysk6cfaGWakvk+oyh7KRTDQbJjX X-Orig-Path: squidward.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ty7xNlJN5JoYyRu3JSlLnKhLi/Q= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: <54f75264$0$62485$b1db1813$71902154@news.astraweb.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:13906 On 04/03/15 18:43, Dennis@home wrote: > On 04/03/2015 17:15, Tim Watts wrote: >> On 04/03/15 17:07, Dennis@home wrote: >>> On 04/03/2015 14:32, Tim Watts wrote: >>>> On 04/03/15 14:15, Jeroen Belleman wrote: >>>> >>>>> Bah. Linux and Unix have all sorts of remote/shared filesystems. >>>>> Of course, some 'creative' minds thought it'd be a good idea to >>>>> invent yet another such thing. That's the bane of computing. It's >>>>> so often easier to reinvent something than it is to find out how >>>>> to use the existing tricks. >>>> >>>> OK - tell me one that works well with Android, Chromebooks with a >>>> semi-connected internet? >>> >>> M$ one drive works quite well with android, you get 5TB to play with for >>> ~£60pa and you get office free on 5 PCs for that. >> >> And unfortunately it's not under my control. Do I want pictures of my >> kids swimming on their server? >> > > Encryption is your friend. Not really. You are missing the point I fear - this has to be seamless and usable by anyone. Unless you know of an file manager app that does on the fly encryption?