... knowing when we've found it.

Real extraterrestrials will look nothing like human. They might be super-intelligent shades of the color blue. If we're lucky.

Differentiating them extraterrestrials and the landscape may be problematic.

In any case, all the exoplanet talk is entirely speculative. During my lifetime, scientists expected to find life on both Mars and Venus -- and those planets are infinitely closer to Earth than any exoplanet. It was only after sending probes to Venus, for example, that we discovered it was a hell-hole incapable of anything resembling terrestrial life.

Anyone who tells you they've found an Earth-like exoplanet is flat-out ignorant. We've found exoplanets in roughly the right orbits to possibly sustain human life -- but the same could be said of Venus and Mars, and look how that turned out.

I'm sorry, but in June I'm getting 100GB as part of my $36-annually MetaARPA membership over at SDF. Not to mention the UNIX shell account I've been using there for fifteen years. And the private Minecraft server. And Gopher. And dev tools. And VPNs, VPSs, a boatload of other stuff ...

Not to mention I'll be able to mount the SDF 100GB to my Linux box using SSHFS under FUSE.

Three million accounts intrigue me, so naturally I went looking for the posted list.

I can't find it. I find endless references to the story, but no list. I can't find Zarefarid's blog. This strikes me as odd, since the list was supposedly publicly posted there. Usually by this time, there are downloaded copies on all the file-sharing services, torrents, etc. There's nothing.

Knowing as I do that the majority of stories on which the press reports are wildly sensationalized or at worst entirely fictional, the lack of a list makes me think this may fall in the latter category.

Box's DAVfs is only useless if you have an OS that doesn't speak DAV. I have mine configured via davfs2 under fuse, and it automounts when I enter the mount directory (using AutoFS).

Of course, one needs a Linux distro to make it work ... ;)

Dakota Smith

The better part of a year. I'm extremely pleased, having had my account converted to SSHFS free of charge.

However, unless EchoFS does something differently very soon, I think they're going the way of the Dodo Bird. They aren't marketing themselves well, and I expect services like Box.com to overtake them shortly.

It's a pity, because they're very, very good. But if nobody knows about the service, they won't survive.

Dakota Smith

There are a number of file managers on Android that can read a variety of network shares. I use FX File Explorer, and I have SSHFSes, Box, and two Windows shares configured.

I also use FolderSync Lite to automatically mirror files. Though to be honest, with 30GB to 50GB storage to play with, I store a massive amount of data in the cloud and use the file manager apps to copy them to my Android when needed. I mostly do this with my ePub library since I'm keeping my music and videos with Google (30GB).

Well, almost the complete works. There's one novella not yet in the public domain.

Piper's complete works at Project Gutenberg.

Go now. Your brain will love you for the rest of your life.

Dakota Smith