Upload utility seems to break Firefox 3 Beta 5 with Ubuntu 8.04.
I'm trying to upload a rather large file, but it cuts off before it reaches even 1MB with FF2 and XP. I am at a public wifi right now though.
Get free 250Gb Storage before May 15th
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Re: Get free 250Gb Storage before May 15th
#12Is it just me, or is the sign-up YCed/redditted/slashdotted?
http://www.filedropper.com/makefreeaccount.php gives me a time-out error.
Re: Get free 250Gb Storage before May 15th
#13If my math is right, these guys need somewhere on the order of a hojillion gigs of space if they want to give away an account or three to every digg, reddit, and news.yc reader.
That's the dirty little secret of a lot of web storage and hosting sites. They can sell you gigs upon gigs of storage because in all likelihood, you'll never use all of it, or by the time you do, storage will have come down in price. Sure there are some users who will max out their accounts, but those will be averaged by those who hardly use any.
As a person working on a web storage product, I'll tell you that's not a dirty little secret--it's our business.
Re: Get free 250Gb Storage before May 15th
#14No gotcha on signup page? No email checking? How many bogus account will they get?
If I wanted spread warez, I would run some bots and create a bunch of accounts.
Re: Get free 250Gb Storage before May 15th
#15Is it just me, or is the sign-up YCed/redditted/slashdotted? http://www.filedropper.com/makefreeaccount.php gives me a time-out error.
Looks like they got overwhelmed:
"Due to extreme popularity we are experiencing unexpectedly high traffic. This special will not be available till tomorrow morning (9 AM PST). If you would like to sign up for accounts starting at 99 Cents please sign up here."
Re: Get free 250Gb Storage before May 15th
#16"The files are kept forever as long as they are being downloaded".
Do they say how long after the last download the files are kept? Else they could always free up some disc space by removing the least recently downloaded files.
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#17lifetime membership? but my account said it's paid until January 18, 2038! :D
Haven't you heard? 2038 is when the world is going to end.
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#18The word simplest just throws me off. "Most simple" seems more right then "Simplest".
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#19I just tried it, very slow. I was trying to upload a 2 gb file, it stops and stucks at 224kb.
Re: Get free 250Gb Storage before May 15th
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's the dirty little secret of a lot of web storage and hosting sites. They can sell you gigs upon gigs of storage because in all likelihood, you'll never use all of it, or by the time you do, storage will have come down in price. Sure there are some users who will max out their accounts, but those will be averaged by those who hardly use any.
As a person working on a web storage product, I'll tell you that's not a dirty little secret--it's our business.
Sound's very loosely like fractional banking.
What percent do you have to keep on hand per user in order to prevent maxing out the storage capacity? Or do you just let it max out and then add more storage?