G Drive

2012-05-17 Thread Andrew Z
hello, just wonder if anyone had a chance to mount (rw) the Google Drive and if you can please share the experiences. thank you Andrew

Re: G Drive

2012-05-18 Thread zxq9
On 05/18/2012 01:17 PM, Andrew Z wrote: hello, just wonder if anyone had a chance to mount (rw) the Google Drive and if you can please share the experiences. thank you Andrew Two points: 1- We have not tested this on SL6 at all (not sure if there is a reasonable client available yet?), but

Re: G Drive

2012-05-18 Thread zxq9
On 05/18/2012 04:46 PM, zxq9 wrote: On 05/18/2012 01:17 PM, Andrew Z wrote: ...a chance to mount (rw) the Google Drive ... Also, I didn't mention this because I thought it was obvious, but you don't exactly "mount" the Google Drive. Its basically like a feature-deprived version of Dropbox wi

Re: G Drive

2012-05-18 Thread Andrew Z
Zxq, i pretty much agree with all points you mentioned . Re : privacy - my employer actively utilizes amazon as a distribution layer only. >From consumer perspective , i was thinking to use it for 2 reasons To have a single and easily accessible destination for junk files. And as a backup for impo

Re: G Drive

2012-05-18 Thread Christopher Tooley
Thought I would chime in here. > Also, I didn't mention this because I thought it was obvious, but you > don't exactly "mount" the Google Drive. Its basically like a > feature-deprived version of Dropbox with an even worse privacy policy > that only integrates with Google products. It is absolu

Re: G Drive

2012-05-18 Thread zxq9
On 05/19/2012 04:07 AM, Christopher Tooley wrote: Thought I would chime in here. Also, I didn't mention this because I thought it was obvious, but you don't exactly "mount" the Google Drive. Its basically like a feature-deprived version of Dropbox with an even worse privacy policy that only int

Re: G Drive

2012-05-22 Thread Christopher Tooley
> Maybe we were given a stunted version to test, but on Google's own OS > and Mac OSX we had to deliberately drag & drop each file that we wanted > saved to the local computer for access offline. I thought I would just verify that, on my Mac OS X (10.7.4) Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro with Google driv

Re: G Drive

2012-05-25 Thread Henrique Junior
Em Sex, 2012-05-18 às 00:17 -0400, Andrew Z escreveu: > hello, > just wonder if anyone had a chance to mount (rw) the Google Drive and > if you can please share the experiences. > > thank you > Andrew Sorry for the late response, but, did you know this project? http://match065.github.com/grive/

Re: G Drive

2012-05-25 Thread Andrew Z
nope. looks interesting. I'm a bit put off by the statement "The only thing missing is to upload new files from local directory." but i guess i'm misunderstanding it. What's your experience? On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Henrique Junior wrote: > Em Sex, 2012-05-18 às 00:17 -0400, Andrew Z es

Re: G Drive

2012-05-25 Thread Henrique Junior
Em Sex, 2012-05-25 às 21:27 -0400, Andrew Z escreveu: > nope. looks interesting. I'm a bit put off by the statement "The only > thing missing is to upload new files from local directory." but i > guess i'm misunderstanding it. > What's your experience? I did not have the time to give it a try yet,

DropBox - was Re: G Drive

2012-05-19 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Fri, 18 May 2012, Christopher Tooley wrote: Dropbox works fantastically with Scientific Linux, and it's been around for a while now. Which SL and which DropBox implementation are you using ? The packages I've tried either on SL5 didn't install or run daemons as root - which I consider tota

Re: DropBox - was Re: G Drive

2012-05-22 Thread Christopher Tooley
On 2012-05-19, at 4:09 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012, Christopher Tooley wrote: > >> Dropbox works fantastically with Scientific Linux, >> and it's been around for a while now. > > Which SL and which DropBox implementation are you using ? [root@ ~]# cat //.dropbox-dist/

Re: DropBox - was Re: G Drive

2012-05-23 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 22 May 2012, Christopher Tooley wrote: On 2012-05-19, at 4:09 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2012, Christopher Tooley wrote: Dropbox works fantastically with Scientific Linux, and it's been around for a while now. Which SL and which DropBox implementation are you u