Owen, One cautionary comment regarding Google Docs: it is a very poor second choice to the OpenOffice suite in terms of features, and compatibility to the M$ Office Suite. It's better than nothing, but just barely. I use a lot of the other Google stuff: Calendar, Blogger, Web Picassa, AdSense (Ingrun & I had a nice dinner, with enough $$ left over for a nice bottle of brandy from my AdSense proceeds from the LANL blog), and Google Docs, but only for small, simple text docs.
I also use HostMonster.com as one of my ISPs, because they offer *unlimited* disk storage and bandwidth, website domain registration, plus a bunch of other features, all for about $7 per month. Hostmonster is where all the multimedia material for my Tin Star music blog ( http://tinstarmusic.blogspot.com) goes . --Doug -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [email protected] [email protected] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > All the discussions of nifty hardware possibilities, along with my slightly > flower-child "whole shebang" view, leads me to ask folks about their larger > computing ecology and how it has impacted your choice of new devices, > whether desktops, laptops, phones, servers, media (tivo, appletv, ...) and > so on. > > I'm thinking of a few gagets for my future, and a Mac Mini, for example, > looks likely for a home server/desktop. > > My goal is the old Sun Microsystems approach: The Network is the Computer! > Thus I'd like to access my media, data, apps and so on from many different > places and devices. > > One example occurred a while back when we bought a SlingBox. Its a nifty > device that makes your TV available on the web. That, with a TiVo or > similar "PVR", makes time shifted personal media available world wide. In > my case, the TiVo can "see" more than just my TV, it also sees all my iTunes > and iPhoto media, thus making it too available world wide. I've used it > with success from Italy, for example (last year's NFL playoffs). > > I want to make further advances, with the goal of making all my data/media > available ubiquitously, from any network device (my phone, for example). > > I haven't gotten involved with Google Docs yet, and probably should. I > *have* used Google Apps and Google Code for a recent redfish project and am > impressed. I've also followed Roger's Amazon EC2 tutorial and built an > "instance". I've also got a great hosting system (Joyent), and use both > BingoDisk and S3 and am using WebDav and other "network mounted file > systems". > > Even with all this great stuff, I haven't really connected all the dots > yet. For example, with the Mac Time Machine, I should be able to backup my > stuff onto Amazon S3 or BingoDisk fairly trivially. If I did that, and had > two-way synch working so that if I changed the Network, my laptop(s) would > sync with that. > > Is anyone else pursuing a "The Network is the Computer" approach? Any > tales to tell? > > -- Owen > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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