[dba-Tech] New text editor

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu May 8 19:06:29 CDT 2014


Hi Gustav:

Ubuntu's Ubuntu.one free cloud storage is being phased out as of July...too bad not my business decision though. It provided 5GB free and of course was built into my system but only provided 5GB free but auto-synced all my personal directories. 

One commenter said: "The irony of this move is that the enterprise side of Canonical is doing exceptionally well on the cloud. Ubuntu is the top operating system on OpenStack and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Still, on the personal/small business Infrastructure-as a-Service (IaaS)  cloud side, Canonical felt like it couldn't compete. As the price for corporate cloud storage continues to dive with the Google vs. Amazon price war and, as more and more personal cloud file storage options appear, I'm sure Canonical won't be the last company to drop its personal cloud storage program." ...and that about sums my observations.

That said, I still have Dropbox and because of how long I have used it, there is 18GB open but I am very judicious on just what files I store there. ...just not sure hope secure my files are in this location... Even though it is not official it is a fairly easy task to connect Dropbox to Ubuntu Linux:

http://www.enqlu.com/2014/03/how-to-install-dropbox-ubuntu-1404-lts.html   

Recently, installed a Google drive also fairly easy to install. It gives 5GB free but shows 19GB (?).

http://www.enqlu.com/2014/03/how-to-install-grive-google-drive.html 

...but sync and management tools have to be added after the initial install:

http://www.thefanclub.co.za/how-to/ubuntu-google-drive-client-grive-and-grive-to

I just discovered that I already have an Onedrive account with Microsoft. I guess I was automatically given one as I had a partner account with them for fifteen years(?). There is currently a Linux manager for OneDrive being created but it will not be ready for another month(?):

http://xybu.me/projects/onedrive-d

Aside: I sent a email to Microsoft asking when they were going to support Linux from their Cloud offering and one fellow phoned me back. He said that they were actively working on it...also he said when asked about the concept of IE having broad based OS support, that it is being considered but IE is hardware and PC API dependant, so it would not be a easy task. 

Here is an overview of the Cloud sync-backup products:

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/dropbox-gdrive-skydrive

I am still in the process of setting Onedrive so I am yet to test its features.

Jim   

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 11:36:20 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] New text editor

Hi all

> But it is not web based at all.

But OneDrive is. Click a .js file, and it opens in a text editor complete with intellisense, syntax colouring,  and line numbering.

Of course, normal document file types opens in on-line Office apps.

It is, in fact, very powerful.

/gustav


-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Stuart McLachlan
Sendt: 8. maj 2014 00:50
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] New text editor

My first thought was  why on earth would you want a web based text editor? 

But it turns out that it is just another desktop text editor.  It doesn't "run from your browser" 
and isn't written in HTML/CSS.    

The core is based on Google's Chromium  browser source - which in the Windows environment requires VS2013 to build so looks like it uses .Net  

It allows you to build extensions  using HTML/CSS and javascript, so in a way it uses "web related technologies"

But it is not web based at all.

--
Stuart

On 7 May 2014 at 13:25, John Bartow wrote:

> I don't understand how something can be "fully web based" and yet only 
> works on one OS. I thought web based meant it runs on the world wide 
> web and works with anything. Or do you mean browser based?
> 
> Please explain.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim 
> Lawrence Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 12:33 PM To: Discussion of 
> Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] New text editorAnd 
> why would anyone wa
> 
> To call Atom just a text editor is a little simplistic. 
> 
> The editor is fully web based, in other ward it runs from your 
> browser, it is written in HTML5 and CSS3 and supports all the the 
> Node.js libraries. It is fully OSS so if there is a feature that is 
> not fully supported a bold developer can add it. The editor and 
> features can be reviews and even downloaded at the following site:
> 
> https://atom.io
> 
> Unfortunately, at the moment, there is only a Mac version but 
> according to the release notes Windows and Linux versions are soon to 
> follow. 

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