price is eventually irrelevant. I'd happily pay for something that works. I've been using Dropbox for quite some time now, and still on the free version, managed to keep my usage down to the free limits. And, it works. That is, on an Ubuntu Lucid system, syncing with my wife on a mac.
When it launched (quite some time ago), I checked out the U1 service and had loads of authentication problems, and dropped it. So, this article made me check again. It's not obvious how to use it, and the iPhone App still doesn't authenticate well, or basically is a mess (opens Safari and all that). And I'm not the average computer user.
Ok, dropbox has to sort out some auth issues, and I won't put sensitive stuff on it, but if you like it or not, it works a dream, also on Ubuntu, which I think is a major plus. If Ubuntu One wants to compete in this field, they really need to sort our their QA and stop launching things before it's ready.
Main thing I don't like about Dropbox is not being able to read OpenOffice documents on the iPhone.
ok, so, everyone hates IE6, what else is new. What I really don't like is how MS is making the mad amounts of money from "having the market" whilst all of us struggle to keep our sites working on their monsters of systems.
I'd like some compensation from all the time I've wasted to make my sites and systems work in their deprecated access to the web, whilst being unable to move on, as clients demanded IE6 support, because 60% of their (corporate) visitors still used it.
MS is taking the dosh, and everyone else wastes their time to deal with it. That's not right.
strangely enough, it does seem to take a lot of effort to actually read, and I presume write, a heavily misspelled posting like that. So I guess, there's some point in spelling correctly.
However, being non-native english speaking, I tend to often correct my english speaking colleagues. Isn't that odd?
At the same time, the first response I got to the joke "does anal retentive have a hyphen" was "it's anally retentive".
Eventually really getting stuck on correct spelling is anally-retentive (with hyphen, and -ly, I looked it up and it seems they're all fine, really) while at the same time, there's some benefit, as it generally communicates better.
very well said. It's the discrepancy between the "masses" and the "informed". It's brilliant, and very responsible of the FF team to make this happen to the masses, and for all of us "informed", in one way or another, we just re-install our company wide CA and we're off again.
I'd rather my mum gets told by FF to distrust some site, than instead her happily inputting her personal details to some site that's a bit flakey. That's the problem of having to protect such a large range of users. All my clients and staff are easily informed about a new CA certificate (mine) change (+url). Doing that to millions of unsuspecting users is not really that easy.
it does actually. Very simply, it allows saving a virtual box in any state it's in and restoring it to the state you saved it as. I've been using it for quite some time now and I have some 5-6 virtual boxes on it, and it works just as it should.
Ok, must admit, I have no idea about VMware (might be way better). Mostly because VirtualBox (on Fedora 8) does exactly what I need, ie run 2 versions of WinXP (IE6 and IE7) and even a Win98 box.
I think, in some way, that may have to do with their accessibility of code, being that it was easy to get VirtualBox and kind of messy to find out how to get Vmware.
I thought the same. Until a client pointed out some IE6 problems with his site. I was about to brush it off with "ah, hell, who is still using IE6" until I checked his stats and hey some 45% of his visitors still do.
He says, they're mostly "corporate users". Considering his market, he might be right.
my experience is exactly the opposite. I've been contacted several times by security researchers who warned me about issues (in my open source project) and gave me sufficient time to fix it and release a new version before making the information public.
activism is more "idealism". It's about the ideal situation versus reality. Some activists might give in to reality and say "we can't ever achieve the ideal". That doesn't mean it's useful to get some people to remind us regularly that using nuclear power (or anything else non renewable) is not fantastic, even if we, for the moment seem to need it.
you can't convince me that you think it's a brilliant idea to poison the future with rather long lasting toxical waste. Nevertheless, our current need of power seems to require it, and we're not clever enough to figure out a way to avoid it.
This thread is confused, mostly because the original post was modded "Insightful" where I think it was meant to be "Funny", which if you read it well it actually is.
I do not think that daycare is something the business should have to pay for. You should be PREPARED to have a child, and not already knowing of a neighbor or a daycare center in the area is a serious lapse in judgement. But who am I but a senior in highschool. I say it as I see it. I agree, but probably not entirely as you intended. You're sentence starting "You should be PREPARED" seems to be aimed at women. The You is a They. However, what I agree with is that Anyone who becomes parent should be PREPARED.
As a result, it would be useful if that is accounted for by businesses. It's a fact of live that (most) people have children at some point and have the responsabilities involved with that, no matter what their gender. Therefore, men should get paternity leave as much as women get maternity leave, as it's just a fluke of nature that it's only women, who physically have to give birth, but it's still two parents involved in the process. Men, way too often, drop their responsabilities in child raising by blaiming the boss. I think businesses should accept this as part the cost of being a business.
Would be nice to get some input from Norwegian parents, where I believe parental leave for child birth can be split between fathers and mothers quite equally.
if you don't have a working project that I can download for free, install on my own hardware, and get working without having to hack the source code in a major way, you're not really an open source project. I think that's not entirely fair. I run an open source project and spend many, fun, hours on it. However, I work on my particular Linux system, and I make it work as well as I can for me, and I don't have the funds to buy the entire *nix/apple/ms spectrum of software and hardware, so I can't make sure it works out of the box on all of the other flavours around.
So, if you can't get my project to run on your system, hack away, feed back the diffs and you help out others, apart from yourself. Eventually, on my project, I do my best, but there's a limit into what I can achieve.
Still, I do think my project is an open source project and working fairly ok.
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price is eventually irrelevant. I'd happily pay for something that works. I've been using Dropbox for quite some time now, and still on the free version, managed to keep my usage down to the free limits. And, it works. That is, on an Ubuntu Lucid system, syncing with my wife on a mac.
When it launched (quite some time ago), I checked out the U1 service and had loads of authentication problems, and dropped it. So, this article made me check again. It's not obvious how to use it, and the iPhone App still doesn't authenticate well, or basically is a mess (opens Safari and all that). And I'm not the average computer user.
Ok, dropbox has to sort out some auth issues, and I won't put sensitive stuff on it, but if you like it or not, it works a dream, also on Ubuntu, which I think is a major plus. If Ubuntu One wants to compete in this field, they really need to sort our their QA and stop launching things before it's ready.
Main thing I don't like about Dropbox is not being able to read OpenOffice documents on the iPhone.
ok, so, everyone hates IE6, what else is new. What I really don't like is how MS is making the mad amounts of money from "having the market" whilst all of us struggle to keep our sites working on their monsters of systems.
I'd like some compensation from all the time I've wasted to make my sites and systems work in their deprecated access to the web, whilst being unable to move on, as clients demanded IE6 support, because 60% of their (corporate) visitors still used it.
MS is taking the dosh, and everyone else wastes their time to deal with it. That's not right.
I'm under 50. What exactly is WoW? For me it's the acronym for War on Want http://www.waronwant.org/ but something tells me that's not what you meant.
strangely enough, it does seem to take a lot of effort to actually read, and I presume write, a heavily misspelled posting like that. So I guess, there's some point in spelling correctly.
However, being non-native english speaking, I tend to often correct my english speaking colleagues. Isn't that odd?
At the same time, the first response I got to the joke "does anal retentive have a hyphen" was "it's anally retentive".
Eventually really getting stuck on correct spelling is anally-retentive (with hyphen, and -ly, I looked it up and it seems they're all fine, really) while at the same time, there's some benefit, as it generally communicates better.
very well said. It's the discrepancy between the "masses" and the "informed". It's brilliant, and very responsible of the FF team to make this happen to the masses, and for all of us "informed", in one way or another, we just re-install our company wide CA and we're off again.
I'd rather my mum gets told by FF to distrust some site, than instead her happily inputting her personal details to some site that's a bit flakey. That's the problem of having to protect such a large range of users. All my clients and staff are easily informed about a new CA certificate (mine) change (+url). Doing that to millions of unsuspecting users is not really that easy.
it does actually. Very simply, it allows saving a virtual box in any state it's in and restoring it to the state you saved it as. I've been using it for quite some time now and I have some 5-6 virtual boxes on it, and it works just as it should.
Ok, must admit, I have no idea about VMware (might be way better). Mostly because VirtualBox (on Fedora 8) does exactly what I need, ie run 2 versions of WinXP (IE6 and IE7) and even a Win98 box.
I think, in some way, that may have to do with their accessibility of code, being that it was easy to get VirtualBox and kind of messy to find out how to get Vmware.
I thought the same. Until a client pointed out some IE6 problems with his site. I was about to brush it off with "ah, hell, who is still using IE6" until I checked his stats and hey some 45% of his visitors still do.
He says, they're mostly "corporate users". Considering his market, he might be right.
my experience is exactly the opposite. I've been contacted several times by security researchers who warned me about issues (in my open source project) and gave me sufficient time to fix it and release a new version before making the information public.
activism is more "idealism". It's about the ideal situation versus reality. Some activists might give in to reality and say "we can't ever achieve the ideal". That doesn't mean it's useful to get some people to remind us regularly that using nuclear power (or anything else non renewable) is not fantastic, even if we, for the moment seem to need it.
you can't convince me that you think it's a brilliant idea to poison the future with rather long lasting toxical waste. Nevertheless, our current need of power seems to require it, and we're not clever enough to figure out a way to avoid it.
This thread is confused, mostly because the original post was modded "Insightful" where I think it was meant to be "Funny", which if you read it well it actually is.
As a result, it would be useful if that is accounted for by businesses. It's a fact of live that (most) people have children at some point and have the responsabilities involved with that, no matter what their gender. Therefore, men should get paternity leave as much as women get maternity leave, as it's just a fluke of nature that it's only women, who physically have to give birth, but it's still two parents involved in the process. Men, way too often, drop their responsabilities in child raising by blaiming the boss. I think businesses should accept this as part the cost of being a business.
Would be nice to get some input from Norwegian parents, where I believe parental leave for child birth can be split between fathers and mothers quite equally.
So, if you can't get my project to run on your system, hack away, feed back the diffs and you help out others, apart from yourself. Eventually, on my project, I do my best, but there's a limit into what I can achieve.
Still, I do think my project is an open source project and working fairly ok.
it used to be miserable failure, but failure now works as well. And of course, Michael Moore is still there as well.