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

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 peop

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. ___ freebsd-por

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 issu

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

2013-03-05 Thread Anton Afanasyev
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Erik Zoltan 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 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mai

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 we

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-05 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 20:20:04 +0100 (CET) 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 softwa

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 wrote: > > On 5 March 2013, at 11:20, Wojciech Puchar > wrote: > place. O

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 detaille

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-05 Thread Doug Hardie
On 5 March 2013, at 11:20, 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 i

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. Fou

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 seri

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. Interestingl

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-05 Thread Janky Jay, III
otebox/186/add-support-for-freebsd Thanks, Erik -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Dropbox-on-FreeBSD-tp5770683p5792802.html Sent from the freebsd-ports mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.o

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-05 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr
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Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2013-03-05 Thread mildbeard
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Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:27:24 +0200 Mikhail Kupchik 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 to wait for FUSE to stabili

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 Rees 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

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-21 Thread Chris Rees
On 21 Dec 2012 15:54, "Mark Felder" wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:45:13 + > Chris Rees 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

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:45:13 + Chris Rees 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 initiaties transfers w

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sergio de Almeida Lenzi 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 and nautilus re

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 dropbox.

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-20 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Brooks Davis wrote: > 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 > >

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 co

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-20 Thread Jerry
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 yourself. I have suggested several times that FreeBSD create a

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-20 Thread Chris Rees
> 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 am looking for. Does anyone have any experience with > > > this software or spe

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 Frank Staals
anyone have any experience with >> > > this software or specific information on it? >> > >> > As far as I know it is currently impossible to run dropbox on FreeBSD, >> > as it requires inotify, as found in the Linux kernel, to detect when >> >

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-20 Thread Lars Engels
ecific information on it? > > > > As far as I know it is currently impossible to run dropbox on FreeBSD, > > as it requires inotify, as found in the Linux kernel, to detect when > > files have changed. > > Thanks, I told the individual that I didn't think it wou

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-19 Thread Jerry
ferences to > > Dropbox in the ports tree; however, I am not sure that they are > > exactly what I am looking for. Does anyone have any experience with > > this software or specific information on it? > > As far as I know it is currently impossible to run dropbox on FreeBSD,

Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-19 Thread Frank Staals
hat I > am looking for. Does anyone have any experience with this software or > specific information on it? As far as I know it is currently impossible to run dropbox on FreeBSD, as it requires inotify, as found in the Linux kernel, to detect when files have changed.

Dropbox on FreeBSD

2012-12-19 Thread Jerry
I was asked about the feasibility of setting up Dropbox 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 am looking for. Does anyone have any