what about your infrastructure required downtime due to laptop failure?
a VPS or dropbox or gmail file system etc can meet security and uptime requirements
one suggestion is that you could install ubuntu to boot off of a memory stick, store your files in a truecrypt volume and autobackup that encrypted file to various places
It’s going to happen over and over again throughout your life, particularly if you start doing things like training neural networks or svms or whatever you are playing with. If you set aside a weekend and visit your local linux users group, they will get you all sorted out for free. The additional advantage of this is that once you are in a known clean infrastructure, it’s likely that you will feel more free to write and research.
While I await laptop repairs, I’ve been killing time by registering predictions on PredictionBook.com for Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, to go in my little page of categorized predictions.
what about your infrastructure required downtime due to laptop failure? a VPS or dropbox or gmail file system etc can meet security and uptime requirements one suggestion is that you could install ubuntu to boot off of a memory stick, store your files in a truecrypt volume and autobackup that encrypted file to various places
I would have had to prepare all that in advance and they would have been less satisfactory.
It’s going to happen over and over again throughout your life, particularly if you start doing things like training neural networks or svms or whatever you are playing with. If you set aside a weekend and visit your local linux users group, they will get you all sorted out for free. The additional advantage of this is that once you are in a known clean infrastructure, it’s likely that you will feel more free to write and research.