Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-07 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:31:10 -0500 Lee Dilkie articulated: On 3/6/2013 6:57 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Dropbox is a good service. You put files in a folder and it automatically synchs them across multiple devices. someone else service? not mine - i mean dropbox server installed by me?

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-06 Thread Łukasz Wąsikowski
W dniu 2013-03-05 20:20, Wojciech Puchar pisze: got into webpage, and it looks like detailless advert just like plenty of others. Found that it simplify sharing, get quite bored after trying to find out WHAT and HOW it actually provides. I'm using Dropbox with boxcryptor (files gets

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-06 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Something must have happened...its like at the top of page 4 in popular for me. But, I've thrown some more votes on it. In the meantime...I'm running a Linux VM in VirtualBox on my FreeBSD machine, serving it out using NFS from the VM and mounting it in FreeBSD (which is what raises the issue

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Dropbox is a good service. You put files in a folder and it automatically synchs them across multiple devices. someone else service? not mine - i mean dropbox server installed by me? just one another way to control people. No thanks. ___

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-06 Thread Lee Dilkie
On 3/6/2013 6:57 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Dropbox is a good service. You put files in a folder and it automatically synchs them across multiple devices. someone else service? not mine - i mean dropbox server installed by me? just one another way to control people. Control people? How

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-05 Thread mildbeard
There is a votebox on this question on the dropbox site. The petition to add FreeBSD support to dropbox is in second place on the most popular list. I find that really encouraging. The petition is actually very close to overtaking the most popular suggestion (adding support for languages

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-05 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr
On 03/05/13 06:04, mildbeard wrote: There is a votebox on this question on the dropbox site. The petition to add FreeBSD support to dropbox is in second place on the most popular list. I find that really encouraging. The petition is actually very close to overtaking the most popular

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-05 Thread Janky Jay, III
On 03/05/2013 05:10 AM, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: On 03/05/13 06:04, mildbeard wrote: There is a votebox on this question on the dropbox site. The petition to add FreeBSD support to dropbox is in second place on the most popular list. I find that really encouraging. The petition is actually

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-05 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:37:17 -0700 Janky Jay, III articulated: Same! I've been voting this up for quite some time. All my votes are dedicated to this. Hopefully it will be implemented soon. Just keep the votes coming and I'm sure they'll take it seriously at some point. Interestingly

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-05 Thread Janky Jay, III
On 03/05/2013 11:18 AM, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:37:17 -0700 Janky Jay, III articulated: Same! I've been voting this up for quite some time. All my votes are dedicated to this. Hopefully it will be implemented soon. Just keep the votes coming and I'm sure they'll take it

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
place. One was to eliminate multiple votes from the same IP I believe. Hrm. That sounds silly. The Dropbox voting actually encourages it's can anyone explain me what is so great in that software. got into webpage, and it looks like detailless advert just like plenty of others.

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-05 Thread Doug Hardie
On 5 March 2013, at 11:20, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: place. One was to eliminate multiple votes from the same IP I believe. Hrm. That sounds silly. The Dropbox voting actually encourages it's can anyone explain me what is so great in that software. got

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-05 Thread Janky Jay, III
On 03/05/2013 12:20 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: place. One was to eliminate multiple votes from the same IP I believe. Hrm. That sounds silly. The Dropbox voting actually encourages it's can anyone explain me what is so great in that software. got into webpage, and it looks like

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-05 Thread Doug Poland
For a small fee one can create an account at dropdav.com. Dropdav puts a WebDav interface in front of Dropbox. My client of choice is www/cadaver. YMMV -- Regards, Doug On Mar 5, 2013, at 13:41, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: On 5 March 2013, at 11:20, Wojciech Puchar

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-05 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 20:20:04 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: place. One was to eliminate multiple votes from the same IP I believe. Hrm. That sounds silly. The Dropbox voting actually encourages it's can anyone explain me what is so great

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-05 Thread Erik Zoltan
Dropbox is a good service. You put files in a folder and it automatically synchs them across multiple devices. I can save a document in my dropbox and it appears on my laptop, my smart phone or my wife's computer. She can update the document and I get the changes almost instantly, even though

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-05 Thread Anton Afanasyev
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Erik Zoltan erikzol...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I'm currently looking for a good alternative [...] http://owncloud.org/ self-hosted on a server somewhere with a fast connection and enough bandwidth? Anton ___

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:45:13 + Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: It needs porting to kevent. Last time I talked to the Dropbox guys they said kevent isn't good enough. Something about tracking a large tree is too difficult. Similar to what the dev of lsync said. (rsync daemon that

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-21 Thread Chris Rees
On 21 Dec 2012 15:54, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:45:13 + Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: It needs porting to kevent. Last time I talked to the Dropbox guys they said kevent isn't good enough. Something about tracking a large tree is too difficult.

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-21 Thread Mikhail Kupchik
21.12.2012 17:54, Mark Felder wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:45:13 + Chris Reesutis...@gmail.com wrote: It needs porting to kevent. Last time I talked to the Dropbox guys they said kevent isn't good enough. Something about tracking a large tree is too difficult. Similar to what

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:27:24 +0200 Mikhail Kupchik mikhail.kupc...@prime-expert.com wrote: Maybe a FUSE filesystem, kind of filtering layer above real filesystem, can be used to track all changes in the large tree without consuming kernel resources for each subdirectory? We'll probably have

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-20 Thread Lars Engels
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 09:23:47AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:32:57 +0100 Frank Staals articulated: Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: I was asked about the feasibility of setting up Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx on a FreeBSD machine, specifically

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-20 Thread Frank Staals
Lars Engels lars.eng...@0x20.net writes: On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 09:23:47AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:32:57 +0100 Frank Staals articulated: Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: I was asked about the feasibility of setting up Dropbox

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-20 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:23:16 +0100 Lars Engels articulated: AFAIK the Windows versions works with WINE. I never use wine. I run Windows program sunder Windows, *.nix under *.nix, etcetera. They run faster, less breakage and just work better. I have discovered that I can run the program under

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-20 Thread Chris Rees
On 19 Dec 2012 14:24, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:32:57 +0100 Frank Staals articulated: Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: I was asked about the feasibility of setting up Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx on a FreeBSD machine, specifically

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-20 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:07:05AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:45:13 + Chris Rees articulated: It needs porting to kevent. Someone may do it for payment, some may do it for fun, but no-one will do it for you until you learn some manners. Or you could do it

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-20 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Strange... there is a source code distribution of dropbox in the site the file is: nautilus-dropbox-1.4.0.tar.bz2 it compiles as an extention to nautilus (gnome...) it needs, nautilus, py-gtk2, gtk-update-icon cache... it installs and nautilus recognizes it... attached is a port of

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sergio de Almeida Lenzi lenzi.ser...@gmail.com writes: Strange... there is a source code distribution of dropbox in the site the file is: nautilus-dropbox-1.4.0.tar.bz2 it compiles as an extention to nautilus (gnome...) it needs, nautilus, py-gtk2, gtk-update-icon cache... it installs

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-19 Thread Frank Staals
Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: I was asked about the feasibility of setting up Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx on a FreeBSD machine, specifically under KDE if possible. I found three references to Dropbox in the ports tree; however, I am not sure that they are exactly what I

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-19 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:32:57 +0100 Frank Staals articulated: Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: I was asked about the feasibility of setting up Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx on a FreeBSD machine, specifically under KDE if possible. I found three references to Dropbox in