On 7/30/07, Adam R. Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Jul 29, 2007, at 15:00, Armin Goralczyk wrote:
>
> > On 7/29/07, Adam R. Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >
> > But what about the ones that don't have an iDisk?
>
> Well, given that Apple's iDisk performance still sucks, I'm not
> optimistic that we can come up with something better.
>
> It would be possible to edit a remote .bib file using Distributed
> Objects, but that would require a Mac on both ends of the connection,
> and you'd have to type in the server address manually.  I suppose even
> Local-Urls could be made available, but it would be as slow as your
> network connection.  The problems arise in dealing with network
> slowdowns, timeouts, security, multiuser setups, server outages, file
> locking, firewalls, proxies...

Well, you are right, things are more complicated.

>
> > And next problem:
> > I stored all my pdf files on my iDisk (which works fine), but it's
> > filled up pretty fast.
> > If I have access to a web server it would be nice to store the bib and
> > all pdf files on that server and actually work on that file/repository
> > with bibdesk.
>
> By "work on" I presume you mean "view and/or modify."  A web server is
> one-way, although I think you can use WebDAV as iDisk does; no idea
> how difficult that is to set up, but in that case could you just mount
> it from the Finder?

I'll try that, seems to solve my problem (although next problem I
don't have a static IP). But what I mean is that more and more things
are shared, i.e. google docs for collaborate work on papers. That last
lab I worked the (endnote) library was shared/altered within the lab
as a file over the local network. I think more and more labs would
like to share libraries over the internet since you could also access
it from home and add/alter entries. You'd have your/the lab library
always in hand. I suppose implementing this is quite complicated but
it might be a 'big' feature in the long run.

-- 
Armin Goralczyk, M.D.
Dept. of General Surgery
University of Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
http://www.chirurgie-goettingen.de
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