Until today, my installation of Ubuntu was not working well, and due to time constraints I was forced to fall back on my Windows Vista installation. I should have known that the two hours it would have taken me to fix Ubuntu would have been a lot less than the time and patients required to put up with Vista’s crap. To say the least, I am back on Ubuntu now. During my short sabbatical from Ubuntu, I opted to use PuTTY as my ssh client. One of the features I grew fond of was PuTTYs ability to save sessions, so the first thing I did when I booted up Ubuntu was: (more…)
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SFTP Drive
13. March 2009
In Linux it was easy to mount a network drive using sftp. However, Windows does not provide an easy method. ExpanDrive, formally known as SftpDrive, allows you to map a remote network drive using the secure file transfer protocal.
ExpanDrive gives you perfectly transparent access to open, edit, and save files with your favorite programs, even when those files are on a server half a world away. Transparent means that you won’t even notice you’re operating on remote file server—it will act like it’s an USB drive you plugged directly into your own computer.
13. March 2009
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