Well we'll see. Let me try to back something up.
TECH: “ELEPHANTDRIVE” the auto backup service says they’ve fixed my problem.
Friday, June 2, 2006
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TECH: “SYNCURA” appears to work more quickly now … fwiw!
Friday, June 2, 2006SYNCURA is "snappier" than it used to be. I am using it to keep my "team member" machines in sync. So basically, I take an encrypted file and drag 'n' drop into the team directory and it gets shared among a community of platforms I use. I'm not yet comfortable putting unencrypted sensitive stuff up "in the air" yet. Have to think about that.
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TECH: UNBUNTU LINUX first look … … looks … … GREAT!
Friday, June 2, 2006I downloaded the Dapper Drake (i.e., UBUNTU 606) with the help of the FREEDOWNLOADMANAGER. It was needed because just a plain old download would fail 66% into it. Don't know why? Burned a disk of the iso that didn't work. Tried again and it did. Came up a little slow. Not used to booting from a cdrom. Worked flawlessly. Detected my wireless lan. Connected to http://freetalklive.com and virgin classic rock radio. Downloaded a podcast from FTL but could figure out how to listen to it. Listened to Virgin rock while I poked at the included sip phone. I want to put it up on some of the old hardware in the garage and see how an install goes. I have a box that can be reformatted. This might be the version that pushes Microsoft out of the operating system business. Besides have you seen the rumored prices of Vista and the footprint it needs. Interesting interesting.
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TECH: UBUNTU Dapper Drake release 6.06 is out
Thursday, June 1, 2006Downloading is a challenge.
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TECH: “ELEPHANTDRIVE” the auto backup service can’t connect to their HQ
Thursday, June 1, 2006From: feedback@elephantdrive.com
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 7:35 AM
To: reinkefj Subject: ElephantDrive Customer Support
Thanks for your interest in ElephantDrive! A customer service representative will contact you shortly to answer questions or assist with problems with the ElephantDrive platform. Our CURRENT AVERAGE RESPONSE TIME is less than 24 hours.
As of 5/31/2006 11:51 AM PST, we are still observing a larger than normal response from the various postings last week. We have added additional web and application servers and the platform should be running smoothly now, if at times a bit slow.
Thanks for your patience and apologies for any inconvenience. We look forward to continuing to serve all your online storage needs!
Sincerely,
The ElephantDrive Staff
——– Original Message ——–
> Name = reinkefj
> Email = reinkefj@gmail.com
> Problem = Elephant Desktop reports "unexpected login error"
> Steps = Connecting to Elephant Drive Headquarters?
> OS = Windows XP
> CPU = Intel Pentium 4
> CPU Speed= 2 GHz or more
> Memory = 1 GB
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Sigh
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TECH: WRIDEA … quickly fixed a problem that I called to their attention.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006From: Reinke's R&D Techie Nerd Persona
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:36 AM
To: help @ wridea.com
Subject: feedback password length
Gentlemen:
Your sign up screen offers password as six to sixteen characters. I of course plugged in a twenty character one. (Like a good beta tester!) It forced me to truncate to sixteen. BUT, when I cycled (logout and login), I couldn’t log on. I asked for my password. It worked. BUT, I discovered I have a twelve character one. Think you need a little work on this area.
Good luck,
FjohnR
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Hi,
First of all, I am sorry for my late reply, we had some great response in last 4 days.
We have corrected the passwords problem, thank you very much for your feedback. Your feedbacks as a user are valuable to us, please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime if you have anything to say.
Take care,
Best wishes,
Your friend at Wridea.com
Mert Hurturk
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Hey, these guys did better than some software companies that I paid big bucks for their pos software (i.e., Nuance's IBM Via Voice, Microsoft, DELL). So, while I don't think I need this one, I recommend them for their hustle, Even though, this bug should have been caught with out me. But then that's why you have a beta.
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TECH: QNEXT, nice idea, but requires certain UDP and TCP ports … ugh
Wednesday, May 31, 2006QNEXT could have been a useful solution to my need to move files between my various machines. It would be really nice to have the data structures move automagically between machine securely. I think p2p could be the "answer" if an appropriate client could be found.
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TECH: WRIDEA … but why do I need it?
Monday, May 29, 2006http://www.wridea.com/index.php
WRIDEA — a web-based note pad?
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TECH: Spammers working overtime. Apparently!
Monday, May 29, 2006One of my "open" ids has been taking a load of spam. Technically, I measured 158 spams. Two made it past the Google GMail filter. Thanks, Google. It's enought to make one turn on controls and tools to prevent strangers from emailing in.
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TECH: LINKEDIN seems to take sunday’s off … … that’s ok … I guess … but tell us!
Sunday, May 28, 2006LINKEDIN appears to be off line. One never knows with the inet if it's the site or any or all of the myriad links between you and them. Has to be a better way?
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