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Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released
Zack writes "Dropbox has finally released version 1.0. The new version comes with hundreds of bug fixes, including invalid file names on Windows, weird Unicode normalizations, Word and Excel file locking, abnormal symlinks hierarchies, and case sensitive file systems on Mac. It also adds TrueCrypt support, a Rainbow Shell that offers support for extended attributes, selective sync, a new installation wizard, and reduces resource usage."
Welcome to the age of google. Try not to hurt yourself. http://www.google.ca/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=dropbox
-1 overrated isn't the same thing as "I disagree".
Do NOT use Dropbox. It is so buggy it will sometimes corrupt all your files and even delete them altogether! It also keeps the copies of your files in their system forever even after you delete them and forwards them to the FBI AND the CIA. Be warned!!!
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
No, if you didn't know what dropbox is, it essentially means you are moving on a slower plane of technological adoption.
Sorry, but dropbox is known through the valley and every other hot spot of tech startups.
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If you would do a little research before opening your mouth, you would see what their value is.
HINT: Integration.
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Cut this "cloud" crap. Dropbox is nothing more than a remote file repository. It also provides with a daemon/client which keeps directories in your local system in sync with the remote file repository. Do you also believe that a FTP server is "the cloud"? And that an email server is "something that places your messages in the cloud"? Do you also believe that a website server is "something that places documents in the cloud"? Fuck the cloud and fuck pretentious posers like you, who feel the need to speak in buzzwords and marketing speak to try to lie their way into looking like they have rediscovered the wheel.
It is common knowledge and assumed you know what it is. If you don't then please leave the site. It is not Slashdot's failing that you've been in a hole for 3 years and know nothing about technology on a technology related website.
They don't need a slashvertisement grandpa, everyone here has been using dropbox for years.
So you think you're a big shot because you've contributed to some OSS project and lecture in a university?
Firstly the fact that you're teaching rather then doing doesn't impress me. In fact just the opposite. Every university professor i have personally met has been some out dated dinosaur so I'm not surprised that you haven't heard of dropbox.
Secondly I've contributed to far more open source projects, including famous well known ones. Does that make my e-peen bigger then yours?
I already replied to your other account. Next time get a clue and wait more then 1 minute between posts.
Dropbox is several things at once, so I forgive your confusion :)
First, it's a cloudbased fileserver. You can upload your files and it will keep 2GB or more of them on the cloud (S3) for you to access. Not a big deal so far. If you pay money, you get much more space.
However, you can also give other people access to your files. And it will keep all the versions of your files. This is a bit more interesting.
Cloud based? Give access to files? You mean like FTP has for decades? (Or more recently SFTP so you're not sending credentials in the clear)
Oh file versions and cloud based? You mean like a CVS or SVN server.
For fuck sake, this is nothing but crapware with bullshit marketing thrown in. The moment I see the word 'cloud' used as a computing term I assume I'm about to have my intelligence insulted.
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you are NOTHING.
cower behind your chosen pseudonym some more, feeb.
you're completely pathetic.