Bob La Quey([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 01:16:18PM +0800 wrote: > I am looking for efficient ways of hoarding. I have located > woffle and installed it but have not begun to master it yet. > Also using wget, which has some intricacies (you have to > use switches like -k to make recursively downlooaded pages > readable locally. -k monges the urls to work locally). > > Looking for "all the tricks" e.g. how to write blog offline. It > seems wordpress (at least, mayb others) has no way that I > have found to ftp up pages. I think they may be stored in > a datbase ... at least I cannot find them. Exploring Performancing > plugin for Firefox as one solution. > > Also just started looking a pyblosxom as blog. maybe it is > more ftp friendly ... dunno. > > Anyone that travels seriously better figure out how to > get good at this. Those 15 hour flights to Asia can add > up to alot of offline time pretty quickly, espcially if you > go places where it takes a while to find a connection > and setup. > > BobLQ >
My brother has mentioned wanting some help with similar issues. He's not offline for 15 hours at a time, but he still wants to be able to work for those 1 - 2 hr invervals when he can't get on a network. One thing that I'm just now beginning to look at is AFS. AFS is the Andrew File System. It isn't trivial to set up, and I don't have details for you. The attractive part is that you get a network file system that is very fault tolerant.. in the sense that if you lose connectivity to your server, it can fail over to another, or use the cached files that are kept on the client PC. I think that the files are cached when they are requested, so it is likely that you'd need to do an extra step to make sure files you wanted were in the cache for your trip. All the descriptions I've read indicate that the caching and failover is transparent to the user. On the other hand, you'll need to have an AFS server, plus a Kerberos server set up. Of course, this means that the client side will need to be configured to deal with all of that. Frankly, I'm not yet sure how much work it will take, or if it's worth it for a small installation. If anyone knows more about AFS and can offer some insight as to how useful it would be for this kind of "planned caching for offline use" scenario, please do share. AFS doesn't directly address getting cached websites onto a laptop, but maybe I thought I'd put the idea out there anyway. Wade Curry syntaxman -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
