(I probably shouldn't have addressed my reply to 'announce' -- I
assume that's not allowed. Sending again to Jerry and to 'discuss'.)
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> When: July 18, 2012 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
> Topic: The Virtual Desktop
> Moderator:Jerry Feldman
> Location:
On 07/18/2012 11:49 AM, Brendan Kidwell wrote:
> (I probably shouldn't have addressed my reply to 'announce' -- I
> assume that's not allowed. Sending again to Jerry and to 'discuss'.)
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> When: July 18, 2012 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
>> Topic: T
A friend of mine saw a demo of FaceTime on iPhone the other day, now she
wants one. Currently FaceTime is strictly an Apple (IOS) app, and
requires WiFi. Google Talk now has the same capability but also works
over 4G as well as WiFi. There are some other apps, such as Tango that
do the same thing.
I've had another data loss thanks to iTunes, and am once again pondering
whether to ditch Apple in favor of Android. The whole reason I switched to
iPhone less than a year ago was to get out of the sysadmin-for-phone business;
I don't really want to have to manage the thing.
But I'm finding that
On 7/18/2012 6:41 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
The iTunes backup model provides only for whole-volume snapshots; you don't
get to restore things piece-meal. And it includes sys-config items that go
way beyond your personal data, in such a way that there is no assurance that a
snapshot can be restored.
On 7/18/2012 9:45 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
The iTunes backup model is nearly identical to the Palm Desktop model:
everything exists in iTunes. An iPhone is a portable cache of what's in
the parent iTunes. Android is little different: it's a portable cache
of what's in the Google cloud. Their
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:18:48PM -0400, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
> An Android phone can be hooked up to your computer via USB and acts
> as an external drive. The entire Android system can be backed up to
> a computer that way, and there are applications to facilitate the
> process. I don't
On 7/18/2012 10:18 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
An Android phone can be hooked up to your computer via USB and acts as
an external drive. The entire Android system can be backed up to a
computer that way, and there are applications to facilitate the process.
Not possible. Not even Cyanoge
On 7/18/2012 10:40 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
Not possible. Not even CyanogenMod permits the boot loader, operating
system or application partitions to be exported via USB. Even if they
were, Android mounts them read-only internally so if they were exported
you would not be able to do a restore
On 7/18/2012 10:51 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
But the OS itself isn't the important thing to back up; you can
reinstall that. What you want to back up is the data - contacts,
calendar, and so forth.
Android doesn't export the applications partition via USB, not even with
CyanogenMod and
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Shirley Márquez
>
> There is one important difference.
>
> An Android phone can be hooked up to your computer via USB and acts as
> an external drive. The entire Android system can
> From: Edward Ned Harvey [mailto:b...@nedharvey.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 12:45 AM
>
> I personally run FTPDroid (ftp server on android) and I use goodsync on
the
> PC to sync it nightly.
Oh - This is definitely *not* a full system backup. I can copy anything in
the filesystem (and w
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