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General Software Discussion / Re: SpiderOak - very nice people =)
« Last post by f0dder on April 17, 2011, 04:24 PM »Just to crosslink things a bit: stay away from DropBox, SpiderOak ftw.
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I've heard similar problems before and I think one answer was to check if you need an extra power cable to the card - because it's easy to overlook that kind of thing. I know I've done it.Ah yeah, that would result in a very unstable machine - I thought later-gen cards all refuse to even start if the additional power cables haven't been installed. Some even come with buzzers so you get some very nifty/nasty audio warnings-nudone (April 17, 2011, 09:06 AM)
More on Dropbox security.In addition to those security concerns, also keep this in mind:-Cloq (April 14, 2011, 09:21 PM)
Business Transfers. Dropbox may sell, transfer...all your data are belong to us. Might be standard business practice, but is it particularly confidence-inspiring?
or otherwise share some or all of its assets,
including your Personal Information, in connection
with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or
sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy.
A fast consumer internet connection has 100kb/s upload rate. A 3 year old dualcore laptop can do ~140mb/s AES encryption... and encryption really shouldn't slow anything down unless you've got an insane-speed internet connection-f0dder (April 15, 2011, 05:25 PM)
Wouldn't the act of encryption slow things down? i.e. step 1 encrypt, step 2 upload instead of just step 1 upload?-wraith808 (April 15, 2011, 07:24 PM)
I've asked Dropbox support if their FAQ statement that says that "Dropbox employees aren't able to access user files" were really true. Their response:W...T...F?Yes. Dropbox employees can't access the file's contents. They can see the file names, move, delete or even restore files, but can't view them. The only exceptions are the executive staff who have a vested interest the company.
I have to admit that I am shocked about their slack interpretation of the word "employee". To be honest, I feel cheated by that FAQ statement. Already the fact that any employee could actually delete my files is unbelievable.-phitsc (April 16, 2011, 12:19 AM)
What are hippies going to do now? They either have to stop the marijuana habit or admit they really don't care about global warming.Yeah well, if they smoke enough they aren't likely to care about anything-Deozaan (April 14, 2011, 03:51 AM)
Also, if you expect the files themselves to be encrypted using your actual password as the key then we'd have to re-encrypt all of your files every time you change your password.Doesn't really need to be "encrypted using your actual password" - generate a random encryption key, encrypt that encryption key using the password. Lets you change the passphrase without re-encrypting all the content...
Why SpiderOak doesn't de-duplicate data across users (and why it should worry you if we did)
One of the features of SpiderOak is that if you backup the same file twice, on the same computer or different computers within your account, the 2nd copy doesn't take up any additional space. This also applies if you have several versions of a file as it evolves over time -- we only need to save the new data blocks.
Some storage companies take this de-duplication to a second level, and do a similar form of de-duplication across all the data from all their customers. It's a great deal for the company. They can sell the bytes of storage to every user at full price while incurring zero additional cost. In some ways its helpful to the user too -- uploads are certainly faster when you don't have to transfer the data!
. Hope it's Gothic that's been sprinkling magic dust on the servers P.S. In my testing I found that leaving a bit more silence than I expected near the splits seemed to work better -- at least in one case, I got the sense that there was some lost audio.Could easily be the case, since mp3directCut avoids re-encoding to MP3 - that does mean it can't work on millisecond intervals, but has to work at the MP3 frame size instead.-ewemoa (April 12, 2011, 08:38 PM)