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15 Most Painful Shoes Ever Created - http://www.thetoyzone.com/2009...
M* | Meyke, Iván Abrego, zʍıɔ and 9 other people liked this
...really?
- l0ckergn0me
that's crazy1
- Fee501st
why would anyone designs shoes likes this in the first place? other than...you know, to cause the wearer major pain!
- TonyRetrobot
Supposedly it's 'sexy' to wear these kinda things
- Amy
I hope the wearers of these shoes have a good Podiatrist on retainer...
- Dave
There, I solved it - http://www.zee.me/blog...
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George Papadongonas, Amin, James Stratford and 12 other people liked this
Feeling down about FB's acquisition of Freindfeed again......
ElStewie, John (a.k.a. dendroica), vijay and 3 other people liked this
Then you should join our group blog, All Wordy and Junk: http://allwordyandjunk.blogspot.com/
- Steven Perez
Then you should join my support and counselling group. You can't miss it - it has a massive sign on the door with 'BUILD A BRIDGE AND GET OVER IT'.
- Andy C
Ok thanks... Just followed the blog on Google Friend Connect......
- Roberto Bonini
Andy: lemme find my tools and some iron girders....... :)
- Roberto Bonini
hahahaha!!
- vijay
Aww :(
- Tyson Key
Why Use Open Source? Shelly Roche reports in from DrupalCon 2009 on Open Source & the Free Market - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Rollins Wallace and ElStewie liked this
If this whole Friendfeed/Facebook deal is true I'm out. The only reason I currently have a facebook article is for a few family members and even then I'm skiddish about their privacy policies.
Ben Hanten, Iván Abrego, John Wang and 4 other people liked this
Deep breaths... deep breaths
- Bwana ☠
I'll just go play some MLB 09 :P
- BCK
As long as it's a financial acquisition, I'm fine with it. Facebook has screwed up enough as it is, and they need to stay out of FriendFeed's decisions. On the other hand, if FriendFeed could clean up Facebook....
- Adam Reyher
from Alert Thingy
I like that viewpoint Adam, maybe rather than making FF worse it will make FB better, crosses fingers.
- Jordan Patterson
Indeed I guess it'll be interesting to see what happens. In the end I guess facebook got tired of copying and just bought it out (granted we are talking about a TechCrunch report...)
- BCK
BCK it's being reported by many people other than TC. :)
- John Fogarty
from twhirl
So, it's true. Friendfeed and Facebook have announced it. But what does this mean “figuring out its longer-term plans for the product” ? From http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
- Mark
Apple Table Macs Out Any Room | Cult of Mac - http://cultofmac.com/apple-t...
Roberto Arancibia, Лучше не знать, pea and 15 other people liked this
Its missing the leaf!
- Gerard van Schip
You could always make someone in the meeting hold it. ;)
- Joshua Schnell
I couldn't really tell what it was until I read the headline.
- Trish R
Looks nice.
- Zachary TG
looks like amoeba furniture
- MicahBear78
Nice table!
- Andrew
Oh ffffff***cckkkk! - http://lh6.ggpht.com/abramsv...
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Cathy Harrison, altblog #❶, Eray Korkmaz and 86 other people liked this
wow.. that must be.... humbling.
- Rob Sellen :o)
Stand off
- Michael Fidler
Was this from National Geographic? Looks like it.
- Michael Fidler
Who's a Fail Whale?
- Alastair Montgomery
This would make a nice desktop background. Is there a large size anywhere?
- Kittyburgers
Katil olandan degilse sorun yok :p
- İgal Pirlanti (Bepanthol)
from iPhone
Umm... ya... where the funk did you come from?! lol
- iamkhayyam
o adam bence korkudan saldı, o kabarcıklar karbondioksit değil.
- Semih Masat ™
mikroorganizma ile beslenen balina olsa gerek :)
- Yiğit Demirel
Birisine çarpınca "pardon görmedim" filan denir. Bu çarparsa "pardon öldürdüm" filan der herhalde...
- Erkan Kayat
Try your best not to make any krill-like movements.
- Ken Morley
Damn paparazi find me everywhere.
- CW™
Kittyburgers, a slightly larger image is here: http://welovescience.com/index...
- Ken Morley
Thanks for the info
- Kittyburgers
wh....wha.....wh....whuh.....whale....WHALE!!!
- Morgan Haley
Nah, the guy with the bumper sticker, "Nuke the Whales"... that was someone else...really!
- Ken Morley
I found this as well, however, I still need a bigger image :-( http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Kittyburgers
What if the whale was nearsighted, and in need of a snack. Would the size of an individual, if odd-tasting, "technokrill" at all register in Mr/Mrs. Whale's brain? (I bet someone here wet his/her pants. Oh, wait.)
- ianf ⌘
Cool, very cool
- Kevin J Hatton
"Now it is my chance to shave a whale.. now where is that razor"
- Jemm
acizliğimi hissettim
- Sinan İŞLER
You don't use a razor, you could hurt yourself in the process. You use industrial-grade pneumatic hammers while distracting the whale with in-retinae projection of "Finding Nemo" (a Hollywood movie no whale can resist).
- ianf ⌘
psikolojideki yanaşma ve kaçınma sendromunu bu foto için kullanabilirm sanırım.
- mayamisa
@Kittyburgers, this is indeed the largest instance of this picture around the known web (Dick Cheney can tell you all about the unknown one): http://tineye.com/search... Why don't you write to the author of it @flickr and inquire whether s/he might have bigger one still?
- ianf ⌘
neyseki balinalar insan yemiyor, en azından yutak borusu yumruk genişliğinde =)
- siniradam
PUBLIC SERVICE: Here's what the Turks are saying when they think we're not looking: "My favorite zoological vote. - Aduket effect The killer is not from no problem: p - İgal Pirlanti from iPhone I think he was swinging from fear, it is not carbon dioxide bubbles. - Semih table They must have fed the whale with microorganisms:) - Yigit Demirel Someone hit the "Sorry I have not seen" so...
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- ianf ⌘
This picture appeared on Flickr 10 months ago, in October of 2008. I don't suppose we'll ever get the confirmation what "little modification" in its title referred to: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- ianf ⌘
The photo's from National Geographic which is where I thought I had seen it before, However I couldn't find it on their site. But, I did find it here; North Atlantic right whale - welovescience.com http://bit.ly/JZOhd
- Michael Fidler
Now I see it - the Flickr photo HAS BEEN doctored ("little of my modification, [trailing comma]") apparently by the poster Christiano~Mattzi by removing the bottom attribution/copyright part so as to appear "copyrightless." Stands to reason: it is simply too good to have been the product of a fluke photo session. Anyone with access to October 2008 Nat. Geo. please check how many hours beneath the waves /sessions/ photos it took to arrive at this single "money shot."
- ianf ⌘
@ianf ⌘ At least we know what type of whale it is now:) I would love to see the other ones.
- Michael Fidler
Michael, but we do not. It sez "right whale." Does it mean there are "left whales" and/or, perhaps, "wrong whales" as well? We can't let this drown in a cloud of ambiguous, yet apparently exhaled bubbles.
- ianf ⌘
ianf, sailors named them "Right Whales" because they were the right whale to hunt.
- Bruce Lewis
Aha, so there were/are Wrong Whales as well. I SUSPECTED it on intellectual grounds alone!!!!!
- ianf ⌘
"Twitter really needs to come up with some other way to tell me it's down."
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Brian Stark, ElStewie and Robert Burgin liked this
Miss what? - http://www.bobiler.org/monte...
demet, HyperAthlon, Çağrı Yardımcı and 20 other people liked this
Jüri fordculardan oluşurdu herhalde.
- Halil Ahmet ÇAKIR
speaking of beauty queens....here's Miss The Bus.....
- Stephanie Segel
Turkish Nanotechnology Researcher Prof. Ekmel Ozbay to develop "INVISIBILITY" CLOAK. - http://www.aa.com.tr/en...
Mehmet Alp and ElStewie liked this
"In order to make an object invisible you need to prevent the object from radiating electromagnetic waves or prevent those waves from propagating randomly. Turkey has become the fourth country to develop such a technology after the United States and two other European countries," said Prof. Ekmel Ozbay, head of the NANOTAM at the Bilkent University.
- Alp
from Bookmarklet
iPhone OS 3.1 Coming This Weekend? - http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2009...
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved Sonia Sotomayor's nomination as first Hispanic justice; final vote expected next week.
ElStewie and Roberto Bonini liked this
Very moving wedding moment (via TheKheinz) - http://leo.tumblr.com/post...
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NaHi, Jean F, Justin Hylton and 40 other people liked this
Their sense of fun seems so genuine; I could help but smile when the bride made her entrance.
- Antonio Yon
One of the best weddings I have ever seen. Lol. Awesome.
- Michel
Loved this! Have a feeling its going to go viral too haha.
- Mike
Do they have the rights for the song? I hope, so it can get viral and not be deleted by some lawyer with no sense of humour or by the automatic copyright infringement detection system enforced by Youtube on automatic demand by record companies.
- Charbax
White people are funny :D
- Joel Lovato
if I ever get married this is how I would want my wedding. awesome
- MercyFlush
That was incredible. Talk about celebrating one of the best days of two peoples lives. Thats the way to do it.
- Jim Bednarz
As awesome as this looks, I really hope my fiancée doesn't make an entrance like that when we get married next month.
- Tony Ruscoe
test
- Digit-tec
Nice :
- Fidel_henderson
A comedian (Murray from Flight of the Conchords) shares his worst gig ever...30th time i've watched it & still brings tears to my eyes) - http://vimeo.com/3401728
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adam garrett, Carrie, ElStewie and 4 other people liked this
hahaha he's one funny guy .. the worst gig ever lol
- Zax Stevens
Not happy with Mozy right now. I had more than 250GB of stuff backed up that suddenly seems to have gone *poof*. It took months to get all that uploaded... Waiting to hear back from their CS people but if the answer is "sorry your data will have to be uploaded again" I'm finding another service that's more reliable.
Bill Sodeman, Shey, Jamaican of FF, Big K and 56 other people liked this
Amazon S3 + Jungledisk. Sure it's more expensive than other backup solutions, but it's ROCK SOLID STABLE.
- Sparky
Please keep us informed
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
from iPhone
@Thparqui - you haven't seen my history of searching for a good backup service. I've already got an Amazon S3 account but can't afford to back up the 450GB worth of stuff I need to backup on it. I currently have about 150GB worth of stuff up there and it's all I can budget. I chose Mozy after a LOT of research and debate because it was the most affordable option even though I can't do stuff like access my files easily or share them with people like you can on S3.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
How much is your data really worth to you? My data is my life - I'll gladly pay the $40 a month for that much on S3 to be 100% confident in it's stability.
- Sparky
It's worth a lot to me, but $5/mo seemed like a much more reasonable deal. And I had heard good things about Mozy.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
I don't trust ANY provider for my data that is still in startup mode. They could go out of business at a moments notice, and don't have the 10+ year business track record Amazon has, nor do they have Amazon's deep coffers for weathering bad times for web services.
- Sparky
Why not just get a couple external drives if you are backing up that much?
- Geoff Schultz
@Geoff Because 1) I want something offsite 2) I want something super redundant 3) I want something daily and 4) I want something automatic. I don't have time to be constantly switching out drives and I don't trust harddrives anyway. I don't have time to be ferrying a drive to a safe deposit box somewhere and I want access to my files wherever I happen to be (what If I'm traveling and...
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- Lindsay is in 20-ten
@Sean The cloud thing doesn't bother me... never has. I like the cloud. I don't trust MYSELF to keep physical backups.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
I have 2.5Tb on my home server. At least 1Tb of that needs backing up. S3 et al are all too expensive :)
- Roberto Bonini
@Thparqui - I agree with you about Amazon and that's why I have the 150GB there. That the "most important" stuff... The rest of it is important too... I am gambling that if Mozy died it wouldn't happen at the same time my harddrive would croak. But I'm not willing to pay Mozy if my data just poofs off their servers with no notice or explanation. $40/mo is a lot of money for the S3 alternative though. Sigh.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
I dont mind the cloud either but uploading 250+ gigs is kind of impractical at 1mbps or whatever you got. Unless you are on like FiOS or something.
- Geoff Schultz
@Geoff - no kidding... it took months... That's why I'm so upset that my data has vanished all the sudden. That's a large investment of my time and bandwidth.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
@Roberto i rather backup my stuff myself. home server + external hard drives is how i would do it.
- Alfredo
@Alfredo - what do you do if you have a house fire... what if you aren't home to grab your drives? Would you risk your life to grab them if you were?
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
no i would not risk my life to grab them.
- Alfredo
Hehe, thats why I suggested multiple externals. One goes either in the safe or to a relatives house :)
- Geoff Schultz
Yeah, but depending on how often you do that you'll still lose lots of stuff. And, again, I simply don't have time to chauffeur my harddrives around... Especially to my closest relatives... visits eat up too much time.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Windows Home Server is all Redundant Storage. Photos to keep are on Smugmug. But I need to find somthing for everything else. I'm not risking my life to grab the drives :)
- Roberto Bonini
How much space do you get on Smugmug and would they let you store Photoshop files? I use Flickr but can't upload the Photoshop Files... and I'm afraid they're going to go down the tubes soon anyway. Also they don't let me upload the full resolution images and resize them so I don't think of them as a permanent storage solution for my images.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
I'm with Linsay; while a local hard drive copy of your stuff is good to have, it is by no means a complete solution. You have to have offsite backup. Period. This is not debatable. And using cloud services makes this much more likely to happen than if you are trying to ferry around physical devices manually -- sooner or later the routine is going to break down. And even if you are good...
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- Christopher A. Wichura
@Christoper - Yay! Someone understands my concerns. :)
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
I currently use iDrive. I get 150GB for me, and 150GB for my wife for under $10 a month. Automatic. It worked fine so far.
- Ian May
Oh I understand your concerns, I just have 900 gigs of video and can't even imagine uploading that hehe.
- Geoff Schultz
Well, Geoff, look at how bandwidth has been increasing and storage fees dropping over time. It won't be all that long before storing terabytes in the cloud is no more difficult than storing a couple hundred gigabytes is today...
- Christopher A. Wichura
Yeah, it sucks, Geoff... it used to be that the main barrier to producing lots of files was physical harddrive space. Now harddrives are cheap but online storage has not come down in price with them so now the barrier is the cost of actually backing up your data securely... I hate having to pick and choose what's important to me or not and back it up simply because it's too expensive.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Carbonite? I like them. The only thing I don't like about Carbonite is that it doesn't support USB devices yet.
- Tamar Weinberg
@Tamar - guess it wouldn't work for me... my storage drives are all USB (my main computer is a laptop). Also I always had a bad vibe on Carbonite for some reason...
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Yeah that was my next question. I wouldn't have a bad vibe about them, though. I had them on 2 computers for a year and then when I ported everything to USB drives, I let my subscription die. I'll be back on track with them once they announce USB device support.
- Tamar Weinberg
Lindsay: Check out Backblaze - https://www.backblaze.com/ It was started by a bunch of ex Apple people and it is really evident in the clean UI and manner in which it just works. I love the service - been using for about 4 months.
- Mike Bracco
@Lindsay: Not sure what type of stuff you are backing up (you did mention Photoshop files, though). For me, most of what I back up is photos. My approach is to back up the original RAW files and maybe a handful of Photoshop files that represented a large amount of post work for specific images. Otherwise, I figure if I have to re-do any post work in the future and am doing a restore,...
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- Christopher A. Wichura
@Mike - I had evaluated Backblaze and almost chose it over Mozy. It was a pretty close race. I went with Mozy because I liked their UI better and I had been aware of them longer. But I might go with Backblaze if Mozy doesn't fix my issue.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Another vote for Jungledisk & Amazon S3.
- Tom Hoover
from iPhone
Smugmug will stick all your psds RAW files, etc on S3 for you. And tie them all together with the finished photos in the gallery. Kinda like a workflow thing.
- Roberto Bonini
@Christoper - I have been lazy and not really gotten into RAW yet (I know, I should... but those take up even MORE room than my big JPEG originals). Most of the stuff I'm backing up is photos and Photoshop edits, yes, but some of it is downloads of licensed software that I may not have access to later, also I'm a developer so I have old code projects, Subversion repositories and other...
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- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Lindsay - SmugMug has the SmugVault and it allows for RAW and PSD storage & viewing (http://www.smugmug.com/help...). Not sure of costs...
- JA Castillo
Oh...here's the costs link... http://www.smugmug.com/price...
- JA Castillo
To be more specific, these days I use a Mac for photo editing. I import stuff into Aperture with library on the laptop's internal drive. My local backup is the Aperture vault on a Drobo. When done with a project, I then export the project to a separate directory structure on the Drobo where JungleDisk's backup is configured to pick things up and automatically store it on S3. So I am...
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- Christopher A. Wichura
@JA Ahh, so it's basically the same as Amazon S3... I would probably rather just directly use my account then.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
@Christoper - I actually use Super Flexible File Synchronizer instead of JungleDisk. I've used JungleDisk before when it was free but SFFS is a one time cost vs the subscription and it really is flexible (I can use it to schedule jobs to stuff other than S3).
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
@Lindsay - at least it gives you the opportunity to use SmugMug as a sharing site. I have no real back-up system other than external drives, so I am interested in what comes of this (I remember your initial thread about back-up choices; a doozy!). Just had a 320 GB drive tank w/ all my video files on it. A cloud solution looks likely for me as well.
- JA Castillo
JungleDisk is a one time cost, too... The subscription model they introduced is not mandatory. JD was $20 one time for me and I use it from four different machines all to access my same S3 account. (Since they license it by S3 account, not by seat.)
- Christopher A. Wichura
On-line could be more off-site safe, but small portable drives are cheaper & cheaper. Just saw 250 GB drives for $60 at Wal-Mart. I have three backup hard drives in Ohio & one 500 GB pocket drive which I travel with (I have older 20 GB & 120 GB pocket drives which I no longer use). Pricewatch http://pricewatch.com/browse... shows pocket 500 GB drives at...
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- Mitchell Tsai
Along the lines of backup redundancy, I've been hit by lightning while on a computer (which fried both the computer & the floppy disk in the computer so badly it was unformatable), and used to run backups for UCLA CS many years. Backup media often fail. An expert at Harvard (with zillions of Fortune 500 clients) recommends at least a four-copy solution (with one off-site). Why? Your...
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- Mitchell Tsai
At UCLA, when restoring from backup media...I'd say about 10% of the time, the tape backup media copy was damaged. So when restoring files from this week's backup, I might have to grab a few files from last weeks' backup, because this week's backup was damaged. I have had dropout problems when restoring from my backup hard drives, so I have lost a few pictures (which may or may not be on my other backup drives, haven't bothered to search through all my backups for the damaged files).
- Mitchell Tsai
I'd say a hard drive tends to break down about once/5-10 years. When managing tons of hard drives, they are always breaking down. But with my own personal computers, I've had two die in 23 years. This doesn't count minor drops and lost data due to bad sectors.
- Mitchell Tsai
Mozy slowed my computer down too much, so i canceled.
- Mike Reynolds
Lindsay I got this reply to my Liked Tweet http://twitter.com/devinkn... from Davinknighton (davin@mozy.com) email him and he will sort your mozy issue for you. it seems they keep 30 days retention backup. so hopefully your file are still recoverable. Good luck
- zsafwan
Hey, I work for Mozy. Email me at nate@mozy.com with your Mozy account email and we'll get you taken care of.
- Nate Kartchner
@Nate - just sent you an email. Thanks.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
@Mitchell One nice thing about S3 is it is built around the assumption of cheap hardware that will fail. They mirror your data, and between east and west coast data centers, to boot.
- Christopher A. Wichura
Used to use Mozy, switched to Carbonite-sooo much better. Don't even know it's there.
- Bret Rowe
So far, for me, S3 + Jungledisk has been awesome. But as my backed up data grows, so does the price....
- Anthony Citrano
That's the problem with S3- Cost. It's the fairest pricing structure possible. But grows quickly. If they can charge by the terabyte at some point, it would go along way for individuals with large amounts of data to back up.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
I don't see it as a “problem”, per se, Roberto. As you say, it's fair.
- Anthony Citrano
I left Mozy to run while I went on vacation and came back to a process that had apparently stalled less than a day in. TBH I think cloud backup is still very unreliable at this point, and not fast enough for me anyway. I roll my own backup solution via external & portable HDDs.
- LANjackal
@Anthony - I would see S3s pricing structure to be more fair if it reflected the quickly dropping price of the physical drives... Prices per storage of a GB of storage on a physical drive has dropped a lot in the last couple of years, but S3s prices have not dropped proportionally (though I do acknowledge that they have dropped a tiny bit).
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Mozy pulled that crap with me a few months ago and I ditched them for backblaze.
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
Carbonite has worked well for me for over 3 years.
- Tony C (Unrated)
I could never get Mozy to successfully back up 40gb + from my mac, let alone 200gb+ of media. Too slow, made my MPB crash, etc etc. The mac client also was too limited compared to what the windows client allowed in features. Finally had to cancel. I reason that a couple of extra drives +speed will make up for any additional cost incurred.
- Cole Jolley
I have 246.4 GB on Mozy. I'm scared now.
- Oliver Bouchard
Same here - I have everything backed up on a Drobo at home. It just took me around 1.5 years to upload al our photos to mozy (I only uploaded during the day, when I was at work). I don't want to do this again.
- Oliver Bouchard
from IM
250GB = 3.5 hours upload time for me, not months. I think the problem here is your isp.
- Brandon
@Brandon What kind of connection do you have?! By Amazon's own admission, it would take "80 days to upload just 1TB of data over a T1 connection." According to their claims it would take over 12 days to upload your data over T1.
- Brandon Titus
@Brandon: doing the math, 250GB/(3.5h * 3600 s/h) = 0.02GB/s = 20MBytes/s. In the unlikely event you actually have such a connection, it's not readily available to most people
- LANjackal
Have any of you who have too much data to upload considered sending your drives to Amazon via their "Import/Export" program? It sounds like a cool thing although it's fairly pricey ($80 fee per drive and $2.50 per hour of transfer time). http://aws.typepad.com/aws...
- Brandon Titus
Yeah, it's clearly not priced for any kind of small data transfer like this but if someone had some really important data I think it could definitely be valuable. Of course, it's one time backup but it would get you to a point where all future files would be backed up directly. (Still doesn't help the cost of S3).
- Brandon Titus
I don't understand why people are compelled to go with S3 or Rackspace. I mean, the idea is great but when you have 250GB, that's a LOT of money and you're paying monthly. Mozy/Carbonite/similar services aren't like that.
- Tamar Weinberg
I've been using SugarSync for a while now.. fortunately (or unfortunately) I haven't had to test restoring files... if that time comes, I'll be sure to let everyone know how it went. I love their service and features, though. I thought their pricing was slightly higher than I wanted, so right now I am on the freebie version. Eventually, though - when they have an Android client and...
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- Tim Hoeck
Check out crashplan for p2p backup. Buy a hard drive or cheap Linux box and stash it at a friends house. You can prime it locally first to bootstrap yourself. Cost: $0.
- Joe Beda ()
from iPhone
Get in touch with @mozy on Twitter. Worked when I had mozy problems
- Phill Price
from iPhone
Phill, contact with Mozy already happened here on FriendFeed. See earlier comments in this thread.
- Micah Wittman
@LANjackal: I do have such a connection, it is widely available now, you just have to have your isp drop fiber at your location. The price has gone down significantly too. 40Mb/s Down // 20Mb/s Up = $200-$500 a month depending on where you live.
- Brandon
Nate/Lindsay, got an update for us? Is it OK now? :)
- AJ Batac
whoa.
- Caroline
Any update Lindsey? I will say I am impressed that mozy found you on here to help. I have mozy too and am pleased so far. It did take me 14 days to back up all my stuff but I like it so far.
- Amani
wow that's not good CS
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I was just about to buy Mozy but will now give an extra thought
- Martin Liechti
from fftogo
LOL @ Brandon - If I had $200-$500 to drop on my home internet connection none of this would be an issue and I'd be using S3 instead. HAHAHA. Wish I could afford $6K a year just for the convenience of fast internet.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
I heard from Nate that he's looking into it and I heard back from the CS dept but it's still up in the air. The CS rep said that the files are still there but it would "take a while for the reassociation to happen". As far as I can tell Mozy is just trying to upload everything again and nothing is going any faster than it did the first time. I replied to the CS rep and asked him how I...
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- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Thparqi - startup? Go out of business? It's EMC.... I think they're safe.....
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
from iPhone
Okay, I have 300 gigs of unbackuped photos, and I'M SHIT SCARED. NOT A SINGLE BACUP - ONE DRIVE GOES KAPUT, AND I'M DEAD!
- Yuvi
Mozy being EMC was one of the points that convinced me to use them. At least they should have access to good storage technology. But if they cannot pull of a reliable software then this doesn't help at all.
- Oliver Bouchard
from IM
With respect to Jungle Disk comments - I would suggest CrashPlan instead: 1)It's less expensive or even free. 2)It allows local backup, offsite to friends, and to their cloud. 3)When using their cloud, they automatically verify your data to insure it's in healthy order. Amazon just lets it rest. 4)You're not charged for bandwidth in or out.. and 5)if you needed it all back asap, they'd ship you a USB drive.
- Matthew Dornquast
Lindsay - let us know the outcome. I'm sure it'll work out. I personally am going to stick w/ Mozy (assuming you have a good outcome:)) as I still trust that EMC is better than some fly by night place that could go out of business w/ my data overnight...
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
@Lindsay - I checked into Backblaze as an alternative to Mozy. You mentioned backing up virtual machines to Mozy, so I'm assuming that Mozy doesn't have a file size limit. Backblaze has a per file limiit of 4GB, so it doesn't appear that it will backup my virtual machines.
- Tom Hoover
CrashPlan has no file size limits or limits to the # of versions or period of time data is retained.
- Matthew Dornquast
CrashPlan seems pretty awesome so far.
- Tamar Weinberg
Awesome! Let us know if there is anything you don't like.
- Matthew Dornquast
from email
Lindsay, I would love an update on what happens. We just rolled out 1-2 GB per associate that is field assigned, and this makes me very nervous of our decision.
- ChangeForge | Ken Stewart
Update @Ken and all - I had a couple more conversations with the Mozy folks and they assured me that my data was still there and would take time to "reassociate" now that the drive is plugged in again. I didn't really believe that because it said that it was trying to back up my entire drive again on the local client and didn't show much progress for days but checking this morning and...
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- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Thanks for the update :)
- AJ Batac
Given they only keep deleted files for 30 days - does that mean you have to keep that drive attached all the time or the backup will be erased? CrashPlan never wipes data and if the drive is removed, it just waits for it to come back.. it does not assume files have been removed.
- Matthew Dornquast
@Matthew - it would cost me close to $40/mo to put my data on CrashPlan's hosted site. I will live with the 30 day limit to save close to $420/yr. And EMC is bigger than CrashPlan so less likely (yes, I acknowledge there is still risk) to go away suddenly. I don't know anyone with a fast enough internet connection to keep USB drives at their house, plus it's a lot to ask for them to...
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- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Why does everyone keep saying Mozy is likely to stay around because it's EMC? EMC loses ground to HP and IBM in the storage arena every quarter. They were once the end-all-be-all in online storage, however they are rapidly becoming a bit player in a commodity space.
- Sparky
Because they're more well known than the OTHER bit players? Perception is everything. Do IBM and HP offer similar services for backup? I'm not aware of them if they do.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Amazon is the only SAAS storage solution that's backed by a large company with other interests. Sure it's expensive, but from a business perspective it's the only player on the market right now that I've got any faith in being around comes 3 years from now. Sure others will survive, but who knows which ones.
- Sparky
And no - IBM and HP offer enterprise storage solutions, but that's what EMC's bread and butter is, and their butter is getting really thing thanks to the IBM and HP offerings. Mozy is their tiny little side project that they *WILL* drop long before their enterprise stuff if the going gets tough.
- Sparky
If that time comes then I will have to bite the bullet and finish uploading the rest of my stuff on S3... But in the mean time I can save a few bucks. I trust Mozy's infrastructure more than players I'm less familiar with.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
I'm too paranoid about my data to trust that. What happens if Mozy goes out of business and then a hard drive fails while I'm still uploading to S3? I want a single backup solution for the long term and my data is who I am - it's worth my life to me.
- Sparky
Why would you choose someone that has failed thousands? Google "Mozy Sucks" - there are so many people upset over not being able to restore data, having their deleted data wiped after only 30 days. Amazon has been down for hours at a time. Why not build your own cloud? Buy a 1TB drive, backup to it, move drive to the office/friends house and you've got automatic offsite backup for free...
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- Matthew Dornquast
Did you read my comment above about why I'm not using CrashPlan Matthew? I don't have a bunch of people I can trust to put drives in locations I can get to if my drive dies... plus unless I have 4 or more drives redundantly backing up I don't really feel like I'm covered if it's up to me to provide the hardware and that will cost a lot more than a year's subscription even with Amazon....
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- Lindsay is in 20-ten
re>pricing. I agree - CrashPlan is more. But only if you use them as a destination. Create your own cloud and have backup offsite for $0/month. I have over 20 people backing up to my house.. and each of them offered me space at theirs. Since the software is free and doesn't require CrashPlan.com to be in business when I need to restore, its' safer. Better still - ever try and download...
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- Matthew Dornquast
Crashplan is a great concept, however since most people I know have limited internet connections the upload/download of backups would be very throttled. Better to have one end of the equation be in an enterprise datacenter with (in the view of a home internet connection) has limitless bandwidth and capacity.
- Sparky
re>comment - yes sorry - I did miss it. I'm not trying to sell you on CrashPlan so much as ween you off Mozy.
- Matthew Dornquast
I don't have that kind of network and even if I did it's not free as you imply... each drive I would have to buy to provide to the people who'd do that backup costs money too. No one is just going to let me use 400GB+ of space on their own drives for my backup.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
@sparky you can backup to the drive, then move drive offsite. Only new "bytes" are sent to destination, so the only bandwidth that's used is the new data you generate.. which is typically really slow over a month.
- Matthew Dornquast
Matthew - that gets REALLY expensive when you have to buy drives in multiple locations...
- Sparky
@sparky why multiple drives? a 1 TB drive can hold about 1.5 TB of backup data after compression and data de-duplication. The drive costs $80. Do you have more than 1.5TB of backup data to backup?
- Matthew Dornquast
Redundancy is important Matthew... one backup drive isn't much protection.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Ok - lets take your example of 250GB. We'll buy 2x640GB drives for a total of $120. They'll easily hold 1TB of data each. Total cost for completely redundant backup locally and offsite is $40/year for 3 years. Benefits: 20x faster restore when you need it, complete offsite protection, greater security. Because CrashPlan doesn't trust hardware to actually be working, you'll be notified if the drives fail, drop a block, etc automatically.
- Matthew Dornquast
@Yuvi - dude, at the very least get an external drive so when that computer dies you can plug your data in another box!
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
@Matthew, I don't consider redundant any fewer than 4 drives, but again, I don't have 4 people local to me that I trust to actually keep their computers open to my backups 24x7. I can't put it at my mom's or my in-laws because they only connect to the internet when they absolutely have to (they're part of the generation that is convinced that people will hack into their computers if...
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- Lindsay is in 20-ten
@Lindsay, where do you get the figure of 4 drives? Does Mozy state that they have four copies of your data? Since we're talking about your backup, not your main data repository, so as long as the backup doesn't fail at *exactly* the same time as your main repository does, then you have redundancy.
- John Röthlisberger
I'm a fan of CrashPlan (no association to the company) and I back up my laptop to my home server (copy #1) and to the cloud (copy #2) -- so counting the actual data on my laptop, I have 3 copies of everything. I'm covered in case of a fire (the cloud backup), and in case of disk failure on my laptop, I will restore from my local backup at high speed.
- John Röthlisberger
The thread that won't die.. Hi Lindsay - I just wanted to say we've responded to your observations on cost. Today we launched unlimited backup for ALL of your computers for as low as $5/Month. Of course, we're not as big as Mozy, but then again, we've been around longer and have been profitable since 2001. Cheers!
- Matthew Dornquast
I'm confused: why is it FFers complain about strangers, "rude new comers" noise, etc etc etc but will then turn around and talk about how FF growth is flat? Call me crazy, but you can't have growth without newbies folks.
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We were all newbies once.
- Steve Lowe
some of us still are.
- Mike Nencetti
I'm not sure those are the same complainers.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
+1 Tina. I agree. If you keep chasing off newcomers, you're doing more harm than good to FF. Sure, spammers should be run off. But if someone is just annoying to you, that's no justification for attacking them and chasing them away from FF.
- Jason Huebel
Complaining for some is their normal interaction with the world. When we all started using social media tools, we were all aggravating to a degree. Need to lay off the newbies a bit, unless they are going down the path of relentless marketing and get rich quick posts, then it is smackdown time! ;-)
- Eban Crawford
I think my example this week with VerothicA from deviantART is a good one. I could have easily blocked the user and thrown abuse back but I don't see that as being healthy for me, for the other user and for the community.
- Kol Tregaskes
I thought it was the old timers who were annoying. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm passionate about new users as the services needs them to grow and feel that FF doesn't support them very well, e.g. no proper tutorial upon completing registration and the issue with the suggested users list. It's one reason why I've created the FF-Beginners group here: http://friendfeed.com/friendf... and why I check for new users (as best I can) daily and welcome them aboard.
- Kol Tregaskes
Scoble, is that you trying to instigate a "Get off my lawn!" moment? ;-) I definitely try to welcome the new users I come across and answer any questions as best I can. And yes, I've run into people who make me want to bash my head in with a ball peen hammer in the process (both new and old), but I handle them the same way I do in real life: polite interactions only when necessary.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I do have to admit it's taken me quite a while to find my feet here at FF. It also took me some time to find my way on Twitter, too. I'm finding myself using both services for different things now. It also takes me more effort to find people I'd like to subscribe to on FF for some reason. Maybe because new people keep getting chased off? ;-)
- Darren Landrum
You mean kind of like how the flood of AOL newbies helped grow the Internet back when? But please let's not restart to old game of duping them in to posting "me too" like back in the alt.news days. ;)
- Michael Leonard
Darren, my first month on FF was no fun at all. I followed maybe 30 people, no one was following me, and I got my main feed in my feed reader. The result? No interaction on the items I posted, I didn't interact on items other people posted, and the posts that DID get interaction drove me nuts by reappearing all the time in my feed reader. Once I threw my hands up and decided to just hang out here and have fun with it, my experience completely changed..
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
It definitely takes time to understand how Friendfeed works. I was lucky when I joined in that a few people subscribed right away, so I got to see some interaction in progress from the start. Even so it took a few weeks to really learn the system.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I think starting on FF can be hard, people don't follow you automatically when you follow them as many do on Twitter, if you don't have a decent feed no one subscribes to you but it is unlikely you will have the motivation to have a decent feed with no audience. On Twitter you will be followed mostly by bots and people that will never read your tweets but your followers count increases...
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- M F
I think a new user tutorial should include an live interactive post and comment part at the end, with something generic like "Hi just joined FriendFeed" in the title. Then us old users could choose to have a saved search that seeks out these posts and welcomes the new user?
- Kol Tregaskes
Well, I just decided to turn off all of the "Publish FF to Twitter" options on my account here. No need to look in two different places for replies to something I published to only one. I think this will help me adapt a lot.
- Darren Landrum
I don't know, Kol, that almost seems kind of forced. With the system as it is now, I as a new user would probably find good people to follow by search. If there's an interactive signup tutorial, perhaps it'd be worthwhile to have a part where you enter three words or phrases that you're interested in. Me, I'd pick 'hilarious', science, and a specific turn of phrase. Use those words and setup custom searches in the tutorial, and you have a ready-made list of people with interests similar to your own.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I will make people mad but... SOME early adopters get BIG on a site when its just early adopters there... then Mainstreamers get involved... and they wanna see kitties and boobs and not talk about bandwidth and apps and unique visitors! But there is way more of them and the numbers are moved off the Techie Early adopters and it goes to a Kardashian... This pisses off SOME early adopters and they bitch about the newbies. Then they move to a new product. Cycle of life! (My uneducated thoughts!)
- Cody Heitschmidt
You have a point, Cody, but I really do think FF offers features that can prevent that. 1) Only subscribe to people when you want to see the MAJORITY their content. 2) Hide imported services you don't want to see. 3) Use saved searches to find content of interest to you based on keywords rather than poster. I post a lot of useless crap so I don't expect certain people to follow me....
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- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I completely agree with you FF Kicks a huge pile of ass. i love it. i was just trying to give my opinion on why early adopters (again just SOME of them) bitch about newbies. Early Adopters are famous in the Early to Kinda early adopter crowd, but 75% of the world never heard of Robert Scoble (maybe more) (I use Scoble as an example cause I don't consider him a whiny early adopter, the...
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- Cody Heitschmidt
"Kicks a huge pile of ass" is now one of my favorite phrases =D
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I am not 100% but I think I actually made it up myself, could be lying to myself to steal all the glory, but i don't think so.
- Cody Heitschmidt
Who does this remind you of?
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When I have/get to give my foster kittens baths! Though I use a sink and just a small amount of running water, nothing so daunting as a tub full of water. Poor kitty, I can't help but giggle a little though.
- Rachel Lea Fox
The American President is an Ass Man, Apparently - http://gawker.com/5311472...
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Sarkozi too!
- Isabelle Ayel
Is President Obama REALLY doing what it looks like he's doing?
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Are you saying he likes big butts and he cannot lie?
- Ladybug Heather
Sure looks that way. LOL He better hope Mrs. Obama doesn't see this.
- Sharon McPherson
The guy on the right, Sarkozy I think, looks like he is getting a good chuckle about it.
- Bill Rawlinson
Listen here for the quotes - http://www.aprilwinchell.com/media...
- Jeff
Future iPhones May Recognize Objects, Faces, Alter Your Voice [Apple] - http://gizmodo.com/5311299...
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The Commodore 64 vs. the iPhone 3G S: The Ultimate Showdown - http://technologizer.com/2009...
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13 Beautiful Images of Pollen Under the Microscope - http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/feature...
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Everything in close-up looks great!
- Sasha Kovaliov
Those are the little buggers that give me the sniffles every spring and summer! >.< grrrrrrr ;-p <333
- Live4Emma (L4S)
from iPhone
But they look so beautiful here. Reminds me of Dr Emoto's experiments with water crystals. http://www.whatthebleep.com/crystal...
- Myrna
xxx by *6Artificial6 on deviantART
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Beautiful.
- Matt Ruiz
Looks like Kol is into redheads… kinda looks like the same girl too.
- Remo
Remo, you're gonna get me into trouble again. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Set your calendars. August 5th, 6Artificial6 loses her fracking mind.
- Matthew DeVries
Is that when the trains start back up then?
- Sparky
Social security flaw leaves way open for cyber-theft #cybertheft - http://www.newscientist.com/article...
"Think you're safe from identity theft because you are careful with your personal information? If you have a US social security number (SSN), think again – because that personal identifier can be guessed from publicly available information. An SSN consists of nine digits, the first five of which are assigned by established criteria based in part on the zip code in which someone was born. Now Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have shown that it is possible to predict the remaining four digits from someone's birth date."
- Shevonne
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Push Gmail Comes To The iPhone [Let's hope this gets accepted, Gmail users!] - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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Total Cost of Ownership: iPhone 3G S versus Palm Pre versus Android G1 | Shrinkage Is Good - http://www.billshrink.com/blog... (via http://friendfeed.com/itblogg...)
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This is a really good, quick analysis of TCO on iPhone, Pre, Android. Really not liking expensive AT&T costs. Love my iPhone, but chapped about expense for bloated carrier costs; especially, since they are behind on technology.
- Susan Beebe
I've done roughly the same analysis when the original (even more pricy!) iPhone came out, comparing it against then known median costs for other smartphones/ carriers, and decided Apple must have had someone else in mind when they conceived it. No wonder they are keeping the iPod Touch two steps behind in iPhone-hardware terms (current Touch v2. = no GPS, no video capability, no mic,...
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- ianf ⌘
my Verizon BB curve was 70$ (due to a 70$ rebate), and costs 62$ a month voice and data (enterprise) thanks to a 22% corporate discount. (my wife and I share 700 minutes) I will wait for Apple to offer the Iphone on Verizon.....wonder how long.....maybe when my contract is up. Great article!
- Mike Nencetti
Does anyone know why the Android never really took off?
- rowlikeagirl
The iPhone's TCO is completely worth it, IMHO! @rowlikeagirl, Because there's a degree of benefit to uniform hardware and the ease of use of centralized application distribution. While i love the idea of an open, standardized mobile OS, no one really cares about that. When you have a phone, you want it to be useful in the ways you want to use it. The G1 just had too many little...
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- ianf ⌘
What was Apple's advantage in signig the exclusivity contract with AT&T? Seems to me iPhones would have 90 percent of the smartphone market if it weren't for that. I know that personally, I won't switch to AT&T just to have an iPhone, unless the cost were low enough to convince me to jump ship, which it isn't.
- rowlikeagirl
from iPhone
No advantage; a necessity and a premise. Apple needed a major US-carrier willing to implement their own then-killer-app visual voicemail, which required changes to cellnet infrastructure, and plenty of servers. That left, I believe, a choice between US-Verizon and AT&T (Sprint, the smallest of the major three, didn't have the necessary bandwidth technology or something). Hence AT&T was...
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- ianf ⌘
Rowl, Android is about to take off.
- Christopher A Carr
A massive brush fire of up to 100 acres is burning in Riverside County, California, officials say. Evacuations are underway.
business as usual
- Geoff Schultz
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