[GRASS-user] OSX virtualization [was: ECW data]

[Hamish]

William Kyngesburye wrote:
> If you have an Intel Mac: virtualization.  Parallels is nice (I  
> haven't tried VMWare).
..
> With Linux, the problem is that the communication between OSX and  
> Linux is limited to TCP - you need to use FTP or SCP to copy the ECW  
> to the Linux file system, then the same to copy the converted files  
> back to OSX.  But it's much cheaper ;)

random plug: "Fugu" is a nice SCP/SFTP client for OSX.
 http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/

on the linux side you can set up a key and put it into the
~/.ssh/authorized_keys file so you don't need to enter a password in
everytime for the local machine, just copy away. (theoretically,
you'll have to try.. and you'll also have to deal to whatever security
issues that allows) see  http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/keygen.html


Hamish