..on Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 08:29:08AM -0800, John Adams wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: > > > > > Or, you could simply rent a server, and roll your own cloud. > > > > > It would be trivial to script this outside of Dropbox's scope. > > > > It would be even more trivial to http://owncloud.org/support/install/ > > > > Yeah, this sure sounds trivial for mom and pop users: > > To run ownCloud, your webserver must have the following installed: php5 (>= > 5.3), php5-json php-xml php-mbstring php5-zip php5-gdAnd as optional > dependencies: php5-sqlite (>= 3), curl, libcurl3, libcurl3-dev, php5-curl, > php-pdo > > apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-json php-xml php-mbstring php5-zip php5-gd > > apt-get install php5-sqlite curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php5-curl php-pdo >
In all fairness they are not instructions for each individual user, but a server administrator. I'll be setting up OwnCloud on one of my servers soon, allowing 'mom and pop' users that I invite (friends, colleagues and family) to trivially (and relatively securely) share files between them. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
