Chat 2025-05-01

Note: Mildly edited to remove noise.

18:42
Jean-Francois Messier

Jean-Francois Messier says:Is there a transparent encryption/decryption software that can transparently integrate with Nemo or other file manager 

19:19
local49

local49 says:For $200 per month you can have a dedicates colo in Ottawa datacenter 

19:34

local49 says:Then run your own ssh and rsync 

19:44
Ian M

Ian M says:I find this cable very handy ($20 plus shipping and taxes)  
https://www.newegg.ca/startech-usb3s2sat3cb-usb-to-sata/p/N82E16812400542
 

19:44
nashjc

nashjc says:encfs 

19:45

scott says:
canspace.ca
 

20:16

scott says:
https://stormweb.ca/cloudstorage.php
 

20:16
nashjc

nashjc says:
https://wiki.linux-ottawa.org/doku.php?id=meetingpresentations2025
 

John has an addition to the chat:

FWIW, I've thought several times that there is a market for fairly priced
managed archiving / backup / simple web presence that a lot of "ordinary" folk
need, as well as people like me, who want to preserve digital files for various
reasons. Also even thought it might be worth a modest investment. Trick would
be to get the pricing and services set up so the value proposition is good, and
user can "mostly" do things themselves. That is, it appears that there's lots
of hand-holding, but really it is a matter of well-organized tasks. If you know
of anyone who might be interested in such a venture, let me know. Ideas have
been explored with Mary, who ALWAYS forgets the names of scripts, so I set up
icons either on desktop/panel or in Double Commander, which is particularly
nice for this. We've found it important to automate processes in modest chunks
that are easy to visualize. Things that cause trouble are the similar but
different directory tree structures on connected computers. Also anything that
requires typing of file or directory names. If possible, as much as possible of
file naming should be automated but REALLY sensible and human informative.
We've taken to putting the date in file names, as so many programs "touch" the
modify date.