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Nick Thompson

Re: SkyDrive WAS: dropbox?

I am hot on the trail of that 25 free syncable gigs in the cloud.

Ok, so I down loaded wndows mesh, and while they asked for my first born son, and three players to be named later, they did not charge me any money. So far, so good. Now, all I have to do is make it mesh with SkyDrive.

If anybody out there knows anything about what I am trying to do, let me know. You mac users can just sit back and sneer.

From: Russ Abbott [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 5:28 PM
To: Nicholas Thompson
Cc: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] dropbox?

I know I saw it. It requires Windows 7. Since I don't have Windows 7, I didn't spend much time thinking about it.

I just did a quick search and found this page on Windows Live Mesh that seems relevant.

-- Russ

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Nicholas Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Russ,

I just rummaged around on SkyDrive help pages and could find no sign that it sync-ed automatically. Any leads?

Nick

From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] 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 <[hidden email]> 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 <[hidden email]> 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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