What annoys me most about the presidential campaign is how every candidate and surrogate dumbs down everything to a few campaign talking points. The very intelligent candidates and highly accomplished surrogates never answer real questions and always choose to revert to their stump speeches. That would be acceptable in a Third World nation with a literacy rate of 50%, but not in America. The dumbing down is an insult to the highly engaged and worried public that is looking for solutions.
Problem: I often need to have some files readily available online so that I can access them from any computer. There are many ways to go about solving this problem and each comes with its set of shortcomings: Yahoo! Briefcase - 30MB limit Online storage services like Box.net, Xdrive, MediaMax - usually cost money; signing up is cumbersome Email to myself as an attachment - enough said there It's time to find a home-made solution. The solution I am about to suggest is intended for -- A *NIX user someone with access to a *NIX web server Solution: I am a linux user and I have user level access to a web server. The web server is configured such that the public does not have access to directory structure. So, I would need to write a script that copies my files to the web server and creates an index listing my files. Password protection of the storage would follow after that. Client Side: Use the following script to transfer file to server, make the file readable by public and execu...
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