From: Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Matthias Weber <matweber@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: ConTeXt in the Cloud?
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:11:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1333048311.3337.19.camel@kip-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8609C65D-ED2D-4CD9-8F18-4D557DAA7322@indiana.edu>
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On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 13:20 -0400, Matthias Weber wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> as the proud owner of one of these tablet thingies I am trying to make it as TeX-friendly as possible. Because the chances
> of running TeX on it are slim, I've been looking at alternatives. The major goal would be to be able to create a
> presentation in ConTeXt on a tablet. For LaTeX, there is a cloud based services called ScribTeX,
> which allows you to store (in the free version) up to three projects with up to 50MB space in the cloud, and have it LaTeXed.
> As their cloud can be accessed via an App, you can edit the files on your tablet, send them to the cloud, have them TeXed, and
> download the pdf.
>
> I am tempted to contact the ScribTeX people and ask them to suport ConTeXt as well, but as I am just a little user and wouldn't have
> a clue about legalities, technicalities, etc, I thought I might ask here first.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Matthias
Hey Matthias,
It sounds like all you are trying to do is host a file on a server, but
the consumer lexicon may be confusing you. I recommend these two links:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#CloudComputing
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html
Best of luck and take care,
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Kip Warner -- Software Engineer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-29 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-29 15:59 Seeking the incompatibility of versions of ConTeXts Jaroslav Hajtmar
2012-03-29 16:35 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-03-29 17:20 ` ConTeXt in the Cloud? Matthias Weber
2012-03-29 17:28 ` Hans Hagen
2012-03-29 19:11 ` Kip Warner [this message]
2012-03-29 19:59 ` Seeking the incompatibility of versions of ConTeXts Jaroslav Hajtmar
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