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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: JO01ou
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Thanks Burbs
 Any more for any more?
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18-09-2009, 10:16
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I iz speshul
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Liverpool
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Downloading and installing now
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 Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. |
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18-09-2009, 10:55
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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Heh can't access the site from work, I'll have a look when I get home this afternoon.
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19-09-2009, 09:05
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: JO01ou
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One thing I hadn't realised about Dropbox is that it's single instance. What that means (and I experienced this a couple of weeks ago for the first time) is that if you put a file in your dropbox and someone else already has it in theirs, the system doesn't re-upload the entire file, it just puts a transparent link into your dropbox to the file. You don't know about this, it all happens in the background and the only way to tell that it's happened is when you put a 200Mb file into your dropbox and it appears in the cloud 3 seconds later! I was putting a file of that size up to share with a friend and that's what happened.
Yesterday I needed to get a 50Mb file from work to home and I'd forgotten my USB key. I threw it in my dropbox on my work system and it was obviously already in the cloud somewhere because it took 2 seconds to appear and our internet connection isn't that quick! It's not down to filenames because I tried renaming files to see what happened so it must be using a checksum to work it all out. Very clever.
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19-09-2009, 09:37
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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Filenames wouldn't distinguish between different versions of the same file
Single instancing + thin provisioning makes sense for that kind of business, nets them savings in a few different areas.
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19-09-2009, 19:00
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Shacked up with the Archbishop
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Canterbury
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Signed up though at this moment in time it's not likely that I will be using it very often.
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19-09-2009, 20:41
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Absinthe
Join Date: Jun 2008
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Sounds interesting will have a proper look tomorrow and probably sign up anyway.
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22-09-2009, 00:08
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Long Island Iced Tea
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Thurrock, Essex
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Even though it is single instance it still takes that chunk out of your remaining space!
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22-09-2009, 04:46
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Preparing more tumbleweed
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Hawaii
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There are a few firms out there offering similar products, and some offering stuff based on
backing up to the cloud... which is utter marketing claptrap. Nothing 'cloud' about it, it's a single server/storage device you're backing up to. Backblaze had an interesting blog the other day covering how they achieve their storage: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01...cloud-storage/
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24-09-2009, 13:41
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Absinthe
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Have signed up using your link
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