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It's been a useful day for technical tricks. . .just learned that PC Anywhere has a print function. So now, when I connect to the PC at work to get to the host computer that doesn't accept outside calls, I can also now print. A big yawn for most of the world, but really handy for me.
Also, the capability I'd heard of which allows Linux machines to access Gmail accounts as extended disk storage has now been brought to Windows. The upside is that anyone can have up to a gigabyte of storage on someone else's host out on the internet. The downside is that whenever Google gets tired of putting up with abuse of their service, they'll undoubtedly put an end to it. The basic technique is that files get stored as attachments to emails, but the implementation is sweet: on the PC it looks just like a folder on another disk drive. Drag 'n drop, the whole works. Neat.
Also, the capability I'd heard of which allows Linux machines to access Gmail accounts as extended disk storage has now been brought to Windows. The upside is that anyone can have up to a gigabyte of storage on someone else's host out on the internet. The downside is that whenever Google gets tired of putting up with abuse of their service, they'll undoubtedly put an end to it. The basic technique is that files get stored as attachments to emails, but the implementation is sweet: on the PC it looks just like a folder on another disk drive. Drag 'n drop, the whole works. Neat.
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