On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:18:01AM -0500, Benjamin Li wrote: > On 2/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:24:19AM -0800, Nelson Pavlosky wrote: > > > > > > Really, I think it's silly that blogs, forums and mailing lists are > > > different pieces of software instead of one unified piece of software > > > with multiple interfaces that can be turned on and off / used or ignored > > > by the users. Perhaps we'll be able to unify them in the future.... > > > > Yeah, I get depressed when all my data in spread out and out-of-sync > > over multiple computers. The Solution is sign your life and property > > over to Google to index. :P > > omg i have that very same problem! home computer, laptop, lab > computers, work computer, 2 school server home directories, harddrive > backups.. webhosting space... oh, the pain! > > I've already signed my email, some of my documents, my gtalk chats, > and calendar to google. Still hesistant to sign over my desktop index > though. lucene, anyone?
I was just kidding, actually. I use my own email server, I store my documents on computers I own, I use remind and wyrd to manage my calendar. Google only has what I put in public web space and what I email to Gmail users (that reminds me: we *really* need a nice open source web mail interface to compete with Gmail). I make heavy use of rsync and unison to keep data in sync, but those are weak workarounds. The Real Solution™ is Plan 9! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs#Design_concepts Still resisting Skoogle Net, Nile -- .''`. | This Sig Kills Fascists! : :' : | http://deadbox.ath.cx `. `' `-
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