At 11:33 AM -0700 12/23/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >On the gripping hand, there's data that needs to be shared, which is >not a use mentioned here so far, but is a very common use of these >services.
Off-Site Backup vs Data Sharing. hummm. >For example, one of our professors is collaborating with two other >people in different parts of the country; we could give them accounts >on our file servers and they could set up a vpn connection and they >could log in and get to everything, or they could just get a free >XDrive account, which has more than enough space for the Word files >they're sharing. XDrive's front page is now sporting this announcement: "On January 12, 2009, AOL will permanently close the Xdrive Online Storage Service." - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
