I know I saw it. It requires Windows 7. Since I don't have Windows 7, I didn't spend much time thinking about it.
I just did a quick search and found this page<http://explore.live.com/windows-live-mesh-devices-sync-upgrade-ui>on Windows Live Mesh that seems relevant. * -- Russ * On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Nicholas Thompson < [email protected]> wrote: > Russ, > > > > I just rummaged around on SkyDrive help pages and could find no sign that > it sync-ed automatically. Any leads? > > > > Nick > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Russ Abbott > *Sent:* Sunday, November 28, 2010 3:27 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] dropbox? > > > > I just looked up DropBox. Why is it better than other online file storage > systems? For example, Google sites includes the means to store files, up to > 10GB for free. (Dropbox includes only 2GB for free.) Windows Live SkyDrive > includes 25GB free. (I think it syncs automatically if you have Windows 7.) > Google sites seems to keep all versions of files so that one can retrieve > previous versions. I haven't found a way to retrieve previous versions from > SkyDrive and don't know if they keep them. The DropBox website didn't say > anything about keeping previous versions. > > * > -- Russ * > > > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected] > > wrote: > > Good info! gpg is new to me, so a question or two: > > - Do you use the pay Dropbox service? .. or just the free one? > > - Is gpg (http://www.gnupg.org/) easy to administer? Does it replace SSH > key pairs? > > - Is gpg available fairly universally .. iPhone/Android, Mac/Win/Linux .. > web hosting services? > > - What's gpg like to use? > > > > Sounds interesting. > > > > -- Owen > > > > > > On Nov 28, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Robert Holmes wrote: > > > > Owen - I work interchangeably on my office and home computers and I use > Dropbox to keep particular parts of my setup synced between the two > machines. In particular: > > 1. my to-do lists, engineer's notebook, big file o' passwords (gpg-ed, > of course) and simple Python utilities all go into Dropbox & hence are > always up to date and accessible; > 2. my ever-growing collection of .PDFs of academic journals and papers > goes into Dropbox so I can easily get it from any machine (and add to it > from any of my machines). > > I do have Dropbox enabled on my Droid, but I don't think the Droid is > terribly effective as an input device and its screen is just too small > for comfortable viewing of PDFs, so I don't use it much for that. Handy in > an emergency though. > > > > -- R > > > > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected] > > wrote: > > Anyone on the list using dropbox a lot? I'm wondering if the iPad/iPhone > app would be useful. > > -- Owen > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > >
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