Bezeq's Dropbox imitation

Hello folks! Bezeq is offering a "Dropbox" imitation for very reasonable fees: NIS 1 /Gb for oa 10 or 20 Gb package. The first two Gb are free (like Dropbox). Of course their technicians only support Windows and have (officially) never heard of Linux. Apart from the cost, there is the very imp

Re: Bezeq's Dropbox imitation

2010/12/19 Daniel Feiglin : > Hello folks! > > Bezeq is offering a "Dropbox" imitation for very reasonable fees: NIS 1 > /Gb for oa 10 or 20 Gb package. The first two Gb are free (like > Dropbox). Of course their technicians only support Windows and have > (officially) never heard of Linux.     Apa

Re: Bezeq's Dropbox imitation

Ubuntu has their own dropbox clone. If I'm going to support a company... I'd rather it's Canonical than Bezeq. On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2010/12/19 Daniel Feiglin : > > Hello folks! > > > > Bezeq is offering a "Dropbox" imitation for very reasonable fees: NIS 1 >

Re: Bezeq's Dropbox imitation

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:15, Justin wrote: > Ubuntu has their own dropbox clone.  If I'm going to support a company... > I'd rather it's Canonical than Bezeq. > Canonical already realizes that Linux support is important. Bezeq yet doesn't, that is why we have to ask them to support desktop Linu

Re: Bezeq's Dropbox imitation

On 19/12/10 11:15, Justin wrote: Ubuntu has their own dropbox clone. If I'm going to support a company... I'd rather it's Canonical than Bezeq. ֹI'll just mention that the DropBox client for Linux is open source (as opposed to their client for Windows and Mac). Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh L

Re: Bezeq's Dropbox imitation

DropBox has client and a daemon. The client is open source but as much as I know the daemon is not. -- Ori Idan On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > On 19/12/10 11:15, Justin wrote: > >> Ubuntu has their own dropbox clone. If I'm going to support a company... >> I'd rath

Re: Bezeq's Dropbox imitation

2010/12/19 Ori Idan : > DropBox has client and a daemon. The client is open source but as much as I > know the daemon is not. > Maybe this should be a new thread, but what does DropBox offer that a remote SSH account, Rsync and Cron don't? No troll, I'd really like to know. -- Dotan Cohen http

Re: Bezeq's Dropbox imitation

I think you can achieve the same functionality using rsync and cron, however what they offer is a daemon that looks for changes in a specific directory and synchronizes the directory to the remote server. I think they also offer the possibility of sharing a subdirectory (under that dropbox director

Re: Bezeq's Dropbox imitation

Quoting from http://www.dropbox.com/downloading?os=lnx How does it work? > > The installer will perform the following actions: > >- Install the open-source Dropbox plug-in for the Nautilus File > Manager >- Adds Dropbox to your default repository for automa

Slides for Creative Commons lecture are available

Hello, The slides for tomorrow's lecture (which is part II) are available here: http://haifux.org/lectures/247/haifux-cc-lecture.pdf The lecture was originally planned for one session, but the subject is so deep in our region of interest, so we had questions, she had good answers, and so we c

Electronic Junk in Haifa

Years ago, there was a junk shop in Haifa, near the wholesale vegetable market and not far from the old Turkish railway station. I know that it isn't there anymore; is there such a place anywhere in the vicinity where disused and unneeded electronic odds and ends are bought and sold? -- Stan Go

Re: Electronic Junk in Haifa

On Dec 19, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: Years ago, there was a junk shop in Haifa, near the wholesale vegetable market and not far from the old Turkish railway station. I know that it isn't there anymore; is there such a place anywhere in the vicinity where disused and unneeded

Re: Electronic Junk in Haifa

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: > Years ago, there was a junk shop in Haifa, near the wholesale vegetable > market and not far from the old Turkish railway station. I know that it > isn't there anymore; is there such a place anywhere in the vicinity where > disused and unneed

Re: Electronic Junk in Haifa

As far as I can recall, the junkyard near downtown, around where the bridge above the train line (the bridge which leads to road 22) is still functioning. Yankale's junkyard or some similar name. Ez On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:04 AM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On