24, Lost, sshfs, and Gravity

Lotsa stuff in one post here...

Saw the season finales of 24 and Lost this week. 24 answered all the questions, and Lost created a bunch of new ones, just as I expected. Hopefully the next seasons will be even better; I haven't been hooked on TV shows like this in a long time!

I discovered something spiffy for Linux today, sshfs-FUSE. In short, it lets you mount, as a filesystem, any directory you want on any system you can SSH to! I've already used it to mount zorin.org's web and my home directory there on my home machine so I can easily move files back and forth without having to use clunky ol' scp!

It supports pretty much all functions, and I haven't found any major issues so far. The only caveats are that it doesn't do directory sizing (so du doesn't work) and that it can't check free space on the disk, so df doesn't work either. Not a big loss, though...

On Saturday June 11th, I shall be roadtripping up to Tampa with some friends to ride this. Sheikra is the biggest roller coaster in Florida, so obviously I can't miss out. I wonder if I can smuggle a video camera on board.... probably not a good idea as it may decide to disappear, then conk some poor guy in the head while he stands on the ground. Heh.

Lots to look forward to! Whoo!