USB Pen Drive User

[Fraser Campbell]

On Monday 31 May 2004 21:27, Scott Elcomb wrote:

> I'm not entirely certain this is possible, but I'd like to try an
> experiment - carry my user id on a pen drive.
 [ snip ]
> Any ideas or suggestions would be most welcome.

No reason it won't work but what about this as an alternative ...

Everything that I care about is checked into subversion.  This includes most 
of my home directory ("normal" files and config files).

It works very well for me.  Wherever I login I just do a "svn update" to grab 
the latest versions of my files, when I'm done working on a system I either 
check in any changed files or revert them.

This gives me a nearly complete consistent experience between my work desktop 
and my home desktop.  All of my files are where I'm used to, my desktop icons 
are identical, etc.

If you can easily get access to a common subversion server from all of your 
machines you might find this easier than lugging around a pen drive.  I can 
easily arrange svn access for myself either through my vpn or an ssh tunnel.

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