For quite some time I have been working on a simulator which we (me with the other awesome folks from http://robotix.in) would use to evaluate the submissions for our XAnts problem statement. I initially implemented the entire thing in pure Java (I know … What was I thinking?) but in the past few days have [...]

Recently I came across this very interesting utility – CurlFtpFS (curlftpfs.sourceforge.net/). It allows users to mount FTP sites as local folders. I had an inkling that something like this could be done but I never imagined that it would be this easy!
To mount ftp.subdomain.domain.org to /home/me/random_folder all you need to do is execute curlftpfs [...]