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Dropbox: Files Without Borders

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Re: Dropbox: Files Without Borders

#11
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You have to use gnome to use Dropbox, hopefully they fix that. Then all the systems folk will probably use this for quick n' dirty research projects.

No you don't. I've been using Dropbox in KDE for months now.

http://antrix.net/journal/techtalk/dropbox_kde.html

A little searching goes a long way :)

Re: Dropbox: Files Without Borders

#13
post #8

You have to use gnome to use Dropbox, hopefully they fix that. Then all the systems folk will probably use this for quick n' dirty research projects.

Uhm, I'm pretty sure the command-line interface does not require Gnome or Nautilus...

Re: Dropbox: Files Without Borders

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Rodeo producer North American Midway Entertainment saved $25,000 in the first six weeks using Dropbox by eliminating overnight FedEx shipments with paperwork. Wow. Talk about having a great story to tell. I'm sure there's a lot of individual users of Dropbox (myself included), but the business cost-savings angle could be a huge one for them to pursue.

Since Dropbox only does one-way access for people without an account, I assume they saved 25k by distributing paperwork, not receiving. This implies they've been wasting almost $5,000 per week because they didn't find a content host / run an FTP / frickin E-MAIL the stuff . What. The. (technological) Fail. You'd think they'd look into something like that a little earlier, as with a bit of setup an FTP host can be ess…

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Re: Dropbox: Files Without Borders

#15

Absolutely true. Dropbox is one hell of a cloud backup solution. With Dropbox iPhone app, I have all my important files with me in my pocket. Does anybody have numbers on their current free/paid users?

From the article:

He won't disclose details, but probably 2% of Dropbox's members are paying customers, putting revenues at $14 million this year.

Re: Dropbox: Files Without Borders

#16
post #8

You have to use gnome to use Dropbox, hopefully they fix that. Then all the systems folk will probably use this for quick n' dirty research projects.

You can use it purely from the CLI. I do this in Arch, works nicely. And most of the hacks are provided from the dropbox guys themselves...

http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/TextBasedLinuxInstall

http://wiki.dropbox.com/DropboxAddons/PythonScriptToMakeStub...

Re: Dropbox: Files Without Borders

#17
post #11
post #8

You have to use gnome to use Dropbox, hopefully they fix that. Then all the systems folk will probably use this for quick n' dirty research projects.

No you don't. I've been using Dropbox in KDE for months now. http://antrix.net/journal/techtalk/dropbox_kde.html A little searching goes a long way :)

Thanks for this info. Last time I looked into this it appeared to be a Nautilus thing only.

This is quite slick.

Re: Dropbox: Files Without Borders

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post #12
post #8

You have to use gnome to use Dropbox, hopefully they fix that. Then all the systems folk will probably use this for quick n' dirty research projects.

AFAIK you just need the Nautilus file manager.

Nope, they have a CLI app that works just fine. They do need to rework their Linux instructions on their site to make this more obvious though.

Re: Dropbox: Files Without Borders

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Rodeo producer North American Midway Entertainment saved $25,000 in the first six weeks using Dropbox by eliminating overnight FedEx shipments with paperwork. Wow. Talk about having a great story to tell. I'm sure there's a lot of individual users of Dropbox (myself included), but the business cost-savings angle could be a huge one for them to pursue.

Since Dropbox only does one-way access for people without an account, I assume they saved 25k by distributing paperwork, not receiving. This implies they've been wasting almost $5,000 per week because they didn't find a content host / run an FTP / frickin E-MAIL the stuff . What. The. (technological) Fail. You'd think they'd look into something like that a little earlier, as with a bit of setup an FTP host can be ess…

I think that's the point of Dropbox. Setting up FTP isn't as easy. Dropbox is so friendly people use it in lieu of more complete, cheaper solutions.
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