Great info, thanks! Questions:
- Do you use the "pro" versions, the for-pay ones? Or do you use the fee one.
- Is the only difference between the free and pay versions the amount of space?
- How do you deal with security? Is SSH an option or are you stuck with
passwords?
- Isn't performance a problem? Our Santa Fe networks are really slow.
-- Owen
On Nov 28, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Chris Feola wrote:
> Hey Nick,
>
> We use Dropbox a ton; here’s why. I’ve never been a big fan of cloud
> storage—It’s OK, but I’ve always had access to servers and such, so there
> didn’t seem to be much of a point for someone in my situation. Dropbox,
> however, is a game changer. First, clients for everything. In my office alone
> we have it on Mac OSx, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, several flavors
> of Linux, iOS 3, iOS4 and Android 2.X.
>
> Second, there’s the synching. On regular -- big -- machines such as desktops
> and laptops, Dropbox creates a mirror folder on your hard drive and
> synchronizes it with the cloud. Super useful for using multiple machines,
> backup, etc. Even better, it means backups on every machine AS WELL AS the
> cloud, so even if the cloud went away I’m still in good shape. Plus, multiple
> levels of undelete, logging of who did what, share control, etc.
>
> While this is a great strategy for hard drives, it's not so hot for the much
> tighter solid state storage on mobile devices. Here, Dropbox works in the
> opposite fashion-it creates what looks like a folder in your storage, but
> does NOT automatically synchronize the files. This has several advanatages:
> it allows you to access tons of stuff without using up your storage, for one.
> And it allows the Dropbox folder to appear as a usable drive to other
> programs, such as Docs to Go, so you can create docs on, say, your iPad and
> have them backed up/available for editing on your bigger hardware.
>
> There's a catch to this, obviously -- it doesn't work when you're offline. So
> how do you make stuff in your Dropbox available for, say, work on an
> airplane? Simple-you favorite it.
>
> So, bottom line: Great synching. Backup. Clients for pretty much everything.
> And if I’m in a meeting and need a doc I don’t have I can pull it up on my
> Android phone.
>
> Recommended.
>
> cjf
>
> Christopher J. Feola
> President, nextPression
> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjfeola
>
> From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
> Of Nicholas Thompson
> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 5:56 PM
> To: russ.abb...@gmail.com; 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
> Group'
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] dropbox?
>
> Russ,
>
> I just rummaged around on SkyDrive help pages and could find no sign that it
> sync-ed automatically. Any leads?
>
> Nick
>
> From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
> Of Russ Abbott
> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 3:27 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] dropbox?
>
> I just looked up DropBox. Why is it better than other online file storage
> systems? For example, Google sites includes the means to store files, up to
> 10GB for free. (Dropbox includes only 2GB for free.) Windows Live SkyDrive
> includes 25GB free. (I think it syncs automatically if you have Windows 7.)
> Google sites seems to keep all versions of files so that one can retrieve
> previous versions. I haven't found a way to retrieve previous versions from
> SkyDrive and don't know if they keep them. The DropBox website didn't say
> anything about keeping previous versions.
>
> -- Russ
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote:
> Good info! gpg is new to me, so a question or two:
> - Do you use the pay Dropbox service? .. or just the free one?
> - Is gpg (http://www.gnupg.org/) easy to administer? Does it replace SSH key
> pairs?
> - Is gpg available fairly universally .. iPhone/Android, Mac/Win/Linux .. web
> hosting services?
> - What's gpg like to use?
>
> Sounds interesting.
>
> -- Owen
>
>
> On Nov 28, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Robert Holmes wrote:
>
>
> Owen - I work interchangeably on my office and home computers and I use
> Dropbox to keep particular parts of my setup synced between the two machines.
> In particular:
> my to-do lists, engineer's notebook, big file o' passwords (gpg-ed, of
> course) and simple Python utilities all go into Dropbox & hence are always
> up to date and accessible;
> my ever-growing collection of .PDFs of academic journals and papers goes into
> Dropbox so I can easily get it from any machine (and add to it from any of my
> machines).
> I do have Dropbox enabled on my Droid, but I don't think the Droid is
> terribly effective as an input device and its screen is just too small for
> comfortable viewing of PDFs, so I don't use it much for that. Handy in an
> emergency though.
>
> -- R
>
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote:
> Anyone on the list using dropbox a lot? I'm wondering if the iPad/iPhone app
> would be useful.
>
> -- Owen
>
>
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