Emulator users: Google Drive is a good wheeze

A while ago I expressed some irritation with having different emulated machines on different devices, when the rest of the world has moved to a unified, distributed cloudy existence.

I suggested here that Google may be the answer.

Well I’ve been using Google Drive on a number of machines for a while now, containing the primary HostFS volume for each emulator. That way each emulated machine can mount each others drives. It’s not dissimilar to an internet-wide ShareFS (that would be very good indeed) but doesn’t need all the emulators to be running simultaneously (which is better, actually).

And if I drop Vimto into all the machines simultaneously, the drives are still “out there” somewhere. Highly recommended.

And if I drop Vimto into all the machines simultaneously

…they go bang! ?

It’s not nice to pour soft drinks into computers.

On a more serious note – while cloudy convenience is a given, are you sure it is suitable for personal data? A couple of questions – where is your data held? who else has access to it? who else can demand access (law enforcement, spooks, etc)? what rights do you have over your own data (ie is deleted data really deleted; what if your information turns up someplace else and YOU didn’t put it there?)? what about downtime or data loss/corruption?
For me, I believe the best thing is to have all I need on a big SD, and keep a copy of the data on another one just in case it is needed. The cloud poses too many difficult questions; and for anything I would consider “confidential” it would seem to me to be a little bit bizarre to willingly hand it all to a third party in return for supposed convenience.

No idea *6. But whereas you are Rick Murray, I am nobody, so I’m not worried. ;-)

@nemo
Shift things slightly T.C.

In a recent survey in the USA, mentioned in SlashDot, about “cloud computing” over half the respondents reckoned that it might be adversely affected by stormy weather. I suggest that from now on we change the phrase to “clot computing”. The word “cloud” is a derivation of “clod/clot”.