[OSX-Users] Re: Recommended Terminal app iPad?

[Mischa Tuffield]

Hello, 

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On 7 Jul 2011, at 15:12, Jules wrote:

> 
> On 07/07/2011 15:05, m.c. schraefel wrote:
>> On Jul 7, 2011, at 13:03, Tim Chown<tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>  wrote:
>> 
>>> On 7 Jul 2011, at 10:43, Jules<sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Prompt is the best by miles.
>>> +1
>> Thank you
>>>> FTP-ing is hard as you have no local filesystem. Share stuff with GoodReader and Dropbox.
>>> Same here :)
>>> 
>> Without good reader, the iPad is a brick for me.
>> 
>> Dropbox is cool as are things like it, but we really are talking about moving the file system to the cloud in order to do file sends to others. Right now drop box does not unlike good reader let one forward docs.

It has come to light that dropbox isn't actually encrypted on the storage-end as far as I am aware [1]. And they recently changed their terms and conditions to state that they have rights to anything you put into dropbox [2]. 

From my point of view it is a total joke of a service and I would always use a university based storage solution if I had the option too ;) 

Mischa *mmm scp 

[1] http://www.privacylover.com/encryption/dropbox-the-encrypted-online-data-storage-with-fbi-access/ 
[2] http://www.itpro.co.uk/634681/dropbox-faces-backlash-over-t-cs 

>> 
>> Will ECS set up our own secure cloud??
>> Julian's dropstuff is a cool start.
> What do you mean by "our own secure cloud"?
> We already provide filestore and file sharing services (and have done so for well over 20 years), a virtual server hosting service, a web hosting service, a project hosting service, source code repositories, etc, etc.
> ZendTo (dropoff.soton.ac.uk) is another way of transferring files around.
> 
> 
> Jules
> 
> -- 
> sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
> 

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