Philosophy, cookery and geekery

This is mainly a note to myself, because I’ve currently got no linux box of my own to play with – but a few readers may be interested! I came across a couple of quite cool implementations of FUSE the other day.

• SSHFS mounts SSH-accessible remote filesystems, locally on your PC with transparent read-write access. Since I have shell accounts with the University Linux system (which I use for backup), and with the SRCF (where this website is hosted), this could be rather useful.
• WikipediaFS is similarly just what it implies – mount Wikipedia locally with read-write access to the pages (you need to know the MediaWiki markup tags). However, it can be used with any MediaWiki installation… so if I was to set up a personal wiki, this might make it rather more useful for notetaking, etc.

When I have a functional linux system of my own again – probably a dual-boot laptop – I’ll have a play with these and perhaps mention how they work here! Thanks to FOSSwire for the heads-up on these…

Oh, and a bit of an update on life in general will follow at some point; suffice to say that I’ve been busy!