I remember it was a headache back couple of years ago to backup data somewhere, most likely in your external hard drive, CD, or U-disk. But it’s like over the night, things changed a lot. Free internet storage is everywhere, sounds like you can store your whole life on the internet somewhere, maybe couple of places.
I was getting a bit worried about my simulation data lately. So I decide to dive in and take what I can get on my mac. First thing that I sign for is apples’ mobile me. A bit expensive, $99 a year, but it got finder integration that you can access it right on your desktop without considering it’s a online storage. And it also got public folder that everybody else can download from. No much complain from apples’.
Lately I come by a nice tool Macfusion that allow you to mount any server path to your desktop, same as mobile me except you choose your online storage location. It’s a miracle that all my work computer (which is most Linux or Mac machine) hard drive is on my desktop, even in Finder (you can drag them there). You can’t imagine how much time I can save without going through the terminal or ftp client. All access is transparent, and the speed is almost same as local as long as I am on the same network.
Because of that, other things changed accordingly. I used to use terminal a lot therefore a lot shell command, ex. vim. They are nice, but you bet, they are not as nice as apple native applications. But now suddenly, all the mac apps come back to me. I am blessed. Thanks to Macfusion.
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