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GMail Drive Shell Extension
krmpradeep writes "GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium. GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to."
Wow, thats pretty neat.
Makes me wonder if they will try to license the Apple iDisk format for this as well for Mac users. I wouldn't mind having a 1 Gig internet drive to access files from home, work, and school without the need to carry DVD's around.
"Genius may shine aloof and alone, like a star, but goodness is social, and it takes two men and God to make a Brother."
They might have even tolerrated the few Windows users that would actually use it, but now that the Slashdot floodgates are open...
i hate my life
i want to die
Thank god, I thought I was going to have to fight off the GMail zombie geek army they're secretly developing all by myself. Stay safe! When the time comes I will call for you!
I use Macs for work, Linux for education, and Windows for cardplaying.
It offers high availability, and unlimited amounts of file storage.
Slashdot-drive uses hundreds of slash-dot logins mappens in a raid-0/raid-1 fashion to assure low latency and redundancy in case you are discovered. In the event an account is locked or deleted, SLASHDOT drive automaticaly rebuilds lost raid partiions in new accounts.
Data is stored in ascii-mapping or using the optional stealth-mode which decreaces storage density but improves undetectability by using phrases taken from other posts to encode a data stream,
The downside is that it essentially destroys a useful public good by filling its pages with gibberish and causing OSDN to bear unacceptable server costs. But who cares becaue you are an arrogant prick
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Those crazy guys at google have already done the work for you! Your gmail network drive can be accessed through the web at gmail.google.com!!
You're probably one of those people who thinks that downloading mp3s without paying for them is stealing. Don't you understand that by not paying for the music you actually help the musicians make money by fighting against the record companies?! Oh, also you buy more music as a result.
This is the same thing. With gmail, google is further tightening their grip on the disk market. Since google has been on the scene the price per gig has dropped by 80%! Manufacturers are suffering. Once google's stranglehold is broken, hard drive artisans will be able to sell reliable networked storage directly to the consumer at a reasonable price and still be able to earn a living wage.
I use OS X so that I don't have to know stuff like that :p
Actually the Linux folks see it as a fun hack but don't actually use it because it is so slow.
Windows users will flock to it and probably won't notice the difference.
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
But would you trust it? Would you REALLY want to use a hack on top of something that somebody else provided for free for your mission-critical data?
Of course not. I'd only put my mission-critical data on RAIGA (Redundant Array of Individual/Inexpensive GMAIL Accounts)
I was under the impression that anything else IS better.
IE 5?
Isn't that like saying "our roads support Yugo or better!"?
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
I believe most files posted would be modded at least +3, Insightful...
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all