Xebar Saram <zelt...@gmail.com> writes:
Hi all
Was wondering about input regarding having all my orgmode files
on a remote
server and editing from there?
I keep syncing (via git,unison etc) all my org files all the
time between 4
machines and i just had enough :) im not (and probably never
will be) disciplined
enough to properly save and close all my 100's of buffer before
i leave each
machine each time and im always faced with conflict/merging
hell..
I was thinking of putting all my org file in one of these cloud
servers and access the
files directly and edit them there from any machine..is that a
silly though?
i dont have any real privacy concerns in my files (i use another
system for sensitive
info) so that shouldn't be a concern
I would love to hear everyone's thoughts, and if they have a
magic git/unison
solution for idiots like me id also welcome that ;-)
thx alot in advance
Z
Hi Xebar,
I think I've tried all the options, and I have found that a
centralized
system is best for me. I'm really tired of the syncing--I spend
way too
much time obssessing over the perfect system. Others have pointed
out
Dropbox -- this might work but is not FLOSS and costs $.
If you put it in the cloud, it costs $ and you lose control. See
Richard Stallman's missives on the topic. A cloud system large
enough to
hold all your digital assets could be very very expensive.
Personally, I have settled on one laptop, and a quick pluggable
monitor/keyboard for places that I do a lot of computing,
e.g. home and
work. I also carry an ergonomic keyboard in my backpack.
My desktop machine stays home, of course, and every "3 months" or
so I
transfer old projects off. The machine is always available over
cable
modem, with a service like DynDNS running so that I can ssh back
in at
my leisure. (I don't need these 8 TB with me at all times.)
Eric
