blog.wired.com— Thanks to WikipediaFS, Wikipedia fiends tired of reloading pages in the browser can now, provided they’re using Linux, mount the site as a virtual filesystem.
May 7, 2007View in Crawl 4
You can make anything into a file system. There are crazier ideas than this!For all those who want to experiment with FUSE and have poor understanding of file systems:It is not well documented.
He said "casual browser." I don't think the casual browser has much use for all kinds of linux commands.Go on... bury me for pointing out that not everyone is a fluent linux-user.
Oh that it would, the idea never even crossed my mind until you mentioned it. A for loop an echo statement and read the entries from a dictionary file and you're good to go, 3 lines or less and you got yourself a wikipedia bomb.
Does Windows have a FUSE implementation? I don't think the Windows FS is robust enough to properly allow this sort of thing. The advantage of a WikiFS is the ability to use the standard FS tools on it in some meaningful way (like using ls and grep to search for articles). You could write an application to do the same but would have to reimplement nearly everything.
rik83May 8, 2007
..and under Windows, and under Mac OS X.. <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmailFS">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmailFS</a>
merrebornMay 8, 2007
Mac OSX can use FUSE modules, thanks to google releasing their macfuse project.<a class="user" href="http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/">http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/</a>
Closed AccountMay 8, 2007
or just use macfuse and this...
ulvundMay 8, 2007
You can make anything into a file system. There are crazier ideas than this!For all those who want to experiment with FUSE and have poor understanding of file systems:It is not well documented.
scarfyMay 8, 2007
He said "casual browser." I don't think the casual browser has much use for all kinds of linux commands.Go on... bury me for pointing out that not everyone is a fluent linux-user.
Closed AccountMay 8, 2007
and now you're going to get buried again
shindaMay 8, 2007
Oh that it would, the idea never even crossed my mind until you mentioned it. A for loop an echo statement and read the entries from a dictionary file and you're good to go, 3 lines or less and you got yourself a wikipedia bomb.
gmorganMay 9, 2007
Does Windows have a FUSE implementation? I don't think the Windows FS is robust enough to properly allow this sort of thing. The advantage of a WikiFS is the ability to use the standard FS tools on it in some meaningful way (like using ls and grep to search for articles). You could write an application to do the same but would have to reimplement nearly everything.