Gmail web drive!

CyberGhost · 15-10-2004 1:24am #1

very nice!

check it out!

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

dangerman · 15-10-2004 1:42am

yeh, very handy. been using it a few days. Anyone try google desktop yet?
http://desktop.google.com/

I'm not that interested mainly cause it supports Internet Explorer, AIM, outlook - and i use none of them. guess i'd check it out if i heard good reports.

Fenster · 15-10-2004 1:46am

dangerman wrote:

yeh, very handy. been using it a few days. Anyone try google desktop yet?
http://desktop.google.com/

I'm not that interested mainly cause it supports Internet Explorer, AIM, outlook - and i use none of them. guess i'd check it out if i heard good reports.

I was reading about it earlier. I'm waiting for Linux support.

Fibonacci · 15-10-2004 8:44pm

Yeah, I’ve been using it a bit. So far it seems really good. The most impressive thing is that it’s lightening fast, the only downside I’ve noticed is that if you have a few results, its not as good a Google-web is at ranking the results.

vibe666 · 16-10-2004 2:36pm

i use the google toolbar for most searches, but if it doesn't come up with anything i use the copernic agent. gives better results than anything else, but not free unfortunately.

radiospan · 16-10-2004 3:17pm

I've just installed that Google Desktop search. It's indexing my HD now, might take a few hours it said.

All Google need now is an IM app. There's rumours that they're working on a browser too (they registered gbrowser.com)

K!LL!@N · 16-10-2004 3:25pm

Be aware that google desktop indexes all files regardless of user.
So a limited user on your computer can search files of the admin or any other user.
Hardly a great idea really.

Killian

unkel · 16-10-2004 6:35pm

Using the web drive for about a week now, very handy

Only snag I have is that all files have to sit in your inbox, or is there another way?

K!LL!@N wrote:

Be aware that google desktop indexes all files regardless of user.
So a limited user on your computer can search files of the admin or any other user.

:eek: thanks for mentioning that!

garthv · 16-10-2004 6:40pm

unkel wrote:

Only snag I have is that all files have to sit in your inbox, or is there another way?

yeh just select all the emails and archive them

Syth · 16-10-2004 8:18pm

Fenster wrote:

I was reading about it earlier. I'm waiting for Linux support.

Ummm... The linux version was out a long time ago... It's called GmailFS
The Gmail drive author credit the GmailFS guy withcoming up with the idea. (look at the bottom of the page linked).

Fenster · 16-10-2004 9:29pm

Syth wrote:

Ummm... The linux version was out a long time ago... It's called GmailFS
The Gmail drive author credit the GmailFS guy withcoming up with the idea. (look at the bottom of the page linked).

I was replying to the post about the Google Desktop Search thingy.

unkel · 16-10-2004 10:11pm

GaRtH_V wrote:

yeh just select all the emails and archive them

Duh

Thanks for the tip

Hobbes · 16-10-2004 10:18pm

K!LL!@N wrote:

Be aware that google desktop indexes all files regardless of user. So a limited user on your computer can search files of the admin or any other user. Hardly a great idea really.

Killian

Actually that is total BS. You can only index what you could normally see on the machine under your account. If another user logs in and uses google their search cache is stored in their own area.

Some muppet of a reporter claimed this is what happened, but they were basically using a public machine where everyone had admin account (debunked on /. ).

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=125838&cid=10540820

Syth · 17-10-2004 1:10pm

Hobbes wrote:

Actually that is total BS. You can only index what you could normally see on the machine under your account. If another user logs in and uses google their search cache is stored in their own area.

That would make sense. I doubt google would be able to come up with a programme that could break any and all security systems in PCs.

Fenster wrote:

I was replying to the post about the Google Desktop Search thingy.

D'oh! Note to self: Read whole post before replying.

What are the advatages of the Google Desktop Search that a normal find or grep or locate can't do?

K!LL!@N · 17-10-2004 2:48pm

Hobbes wrote:

Actually that is total BS. You can only index what you could normally see on the machine under your account. If another user logs in and uses google their search cache is stored in their own area.

Some muppet of a reporter claimed this is what happened, but they were basically using a public machine where everyone had admin account (debunked on /. ).

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=125838&cid=10540820

Ah right, fair enough.
I didn't follow the slashdot article to it's conclusion.
It seemed to make sense that if an admin installed the google desktop that it would be able to access all files.
And the possibility of there being a bug that would allow a limited user access the files indexed during an admin install, didn't seem too unrealistic.

Killian

Syth · 17-10-2004 5:50pm

K!LL!@N wrote:

Ah right, fair enough.
I didn't follow the slashdot article to it's conclusion.
It seemed to make sense that if an admin installed the google desktop that it would be able to access all files.
And the possibility of there being a bug that would allow a limited user access the files indexed during an admin install, didn't seem too unrealistic.

Killian

Well the admin or root is quite able of accessing all files on a system as it is. And I can't really see why it would be a security hole if root ran it. So long as the permissions were set to something like rwx

(ie 700), then there would be no way for normal users to access that file, unless of course google had created a super cracking tool.