Is there such a thing as a flash drive wih *two* USB ports so two computers can share it simultaneously?
Background: I've just taken a job in a shop that not only won't let me put my MacBook on the LAN, but insists that I use a crippled Windows box on which I can't install software. Period.
So I intend to bring in my Mac anyway and use it with the public wireless network for the bulk of my work, while using their Windows box only for printing and other essential LAN-based tasks.
Naturally I need a painless way to transfer files between the Mac and the Windows PC. I'm accustomed to moving a thumb drive back and forth between computers, so the thought occurred to me: why not hook a USB drive up to both computers at once and save the plugging and unplugging? (For extra credit, I wonder if a dual-USB device could also share a copy/paste clipboard between two computers?)
Perhaps I'm being naive -- sharing a drive without going through a networking layer may just be a good way to corrupt your data. If so, what sorts of WAN- or Web-based options are there when I have only very limited admin privileges on the PC?
Thanks.
Background: I've just taken a job in a shop that not only won't let me put my MacBook on the LAN, but insists that I use a crippled Windows box on which I can't install software. Period.
So I intend to bring in my Mac anyway and use it with the public wireless network for the bulk of my work, while using their Windows box only for printing and other essential LAN-based tasks.
Naturally I need a painless way to transfer files between the Mac and the Windows PC. I'm accustomed to moving a thumb drive back and forth between computers, so the thought occurred to me: why not hook a USB drive up to both computers at once and save the plugging and unplugging? (For extra credit, I wonder if a dual-USB device could also share a copy/paste clipboard between two computers?)
Perhaps I'm being naive -- sharing a drive without going through a networking layer may just be a good way to corrupt your data. If so, what sorts of WAN- or Web-based options are there when I have only very limited admin privileges on the PC?
Thanks.