FolderShare: A Solution for Firefox Add-on Sync

by Jekky on Monday, November 24, 2008


你使用firefox吗?你在多机环境下工作吗(比如台式机和笔记本电脑)?如果答案为肯定,那么这篇文章对你或许有意义!很多人包括我自己使用firefox的一个重要原因是功能丰富的插件Add-on,所以每个firefox用户应该都有自己的一个“必装插件列表”,并且这个列表时常更新!当你使用的PC越来越多,每当你发现一个新插件,你需要在每台电脑上重复这个插件的安装!我是懒人,我需要一个Solution来sync我的firefox插件!
随着互联网web2.0的快速发展,我正积极的让自己所有的信息和数据互联网化,我希望把我的firefox插件sync到online storage上,今天我发现了被Microsoft收购成为一个Live service的FolderShare 。Lifehacker提供了一个如何通过FolderShare来同步你的Firefox插件的教程,有需要的同志可以查看这里
到底FolderShare是否满足我的需要,我准备通过试用对一下几个方面进行调查:
1. 是否online storage:同步的文件是否online存储在server端,这个功能可以保证如果我的sync源系统崩溃,我可以恢复;
2. FolderShare如何进行同步的:当我的插件发生变化的时候,同步能否自动进行?
3. Firefox插件同步的兼容性:当不同机器的firefox版本不同,或者说文件目录发生变化,同步能否正常进行?

B.T.W. Windows Live Sync will replace FolderShare in December!
Windows Live Sync解决方案待续!

Links - 2008.11.23

by Jekky on Sunday, November 23, 2008

Everyday, I read materials from internet about what I am interested in. It includes anything cool about computer science research, web2.0 and internet, open source & development. I use this blog to record my memory for daily reading. Hope it is can also useful for you guys!

Research - Bregman Divergence for Matrix Nearness
  • J. V. Davis, B. Kulis, P. Jain, S. Sua, I. S. Dhillon, Information-Theoretic Metric Learning, In ICML 2007. [pdf] [code]
  • I. S. Dhillon and J. A. Tropp, Matrix Nearness Problems with Bregman Divergences, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, vol. 29:4, pages 1120-1146,
    November 2007. [pdf]
  • J. Davis and I. S. Dhillon, Structured Metric Learning for High-Dimensional Problems, ACM SIGKDD2008.
  • B. Kulis, M. Sustik, and I. S. Dhillon, Low-Rank Kernel Learning with Bregman Matrix Divergences, Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2008. [pdf]
  • Zhengdong Lu and Miguel
    Á. Carreira-Perpiñán, Constrainted Spectual Clustering with Affinity Propagation, CVPR 2008. [pdf] [code]
Programming
  • Frederick P. Brooks, No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering. [pdf]