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"you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mo
by SteveNuts 10y ago
"you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software."
Yeah... that would have been a lot easier than Dropbox!
- danso 10y agoThat's funny...I always remember the response to the Dropbox post as "Why don't you just use rsync?". Which is something I actually do for things I don't want to put on Dropbox. Not sure how that FTP solution is manageable, though.
- gravypod 10y agoIt's navigable on the web. Most browsers can navigate through an FTP server.
- danso 10y agoAh, I guess I see Dropbox purely as a sync between my multiple computers. I almost never use the web interface. IIRC, Dropbox was announced mostly as a synced file server. It didn't have all of the features that I take for granted now, such as third-party interoperability and public-file sharing.
- mhurron 10y agoNo wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. First thing I thought of.