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Plug: the brain of your devices
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Re: Plug: the brain of your devices
#82Oh wow, I feel so sorry for anybody who has backed this. The promises they make are simply technically impossible on devices such as iPads and iPhones. They also don't say they have actually done anything in that area either, only that they have a prototype for Win/Linux/Mac desktop - probably an unpolished clone of Dropbox.
See http://www.tonido.com/ . (Sidenote: tteam posted this; is tteam affiliated with Plug? Is Tonido their previous project?) What makes it impossible on iPads and iPhones?
the way I see it, it's "impossible" because (for example) if you use plug to keep your music in sync, it won't be viewable in iOS's music app, only through whatever app plug puts together.
Re: Plug: the brain of your devices
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
UPNP can be handled by existing Linux UPNP software. There is a FOSS VPN that can do point to point VPN routing, but I'm forgetting the name. FUSE works ona a surprisingly large number of operating systems now (Linux, OSX, Android-fied Linux, Windows), so building a FUSE file system can be done. And as for data sync and replication? CEPH can probably handle this. The software exists to do this, no one has put it toge…
Indeed, I wasn't suggesting that any one of those things was technically infeasible, but that "putting it together" is a very large undertaking, because there are a lot of things they're trying to put together. I don't think FUSE is how this works: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6027569 .
FUSE is just a file system layer, I CAN implement a versioning distributed filesystem through FUSE, nothing in FUSE stops me from doing that.
Re: Plug: the brain of your devices
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except its easy to build RAID enclosures that are USB mass storage devices. Plus, it replicates data across multiple Plugs in different location, and I think the Plug software also shares data on your computer (which can be RAIDed) through your private Plug network as well.
RAID is not a backup solution. If your filesystem is corrupted in software (or you just mistype and delete something important), it will happily replicate the damage across all of your drives. Personally I feel recommending RAID to home users is generally a bad idea. It gives a false sense of security.
Depends on the file system implementation. Smarter RAID implementations, such those integrated into ZFS, will not be easily taken down.
In addition, RAID does not require you to use local devices. I agree, however, it is not a backup solution, and I did not claim it was. I merely stated RAID is how you deal with drives dying and taking everything with it. Backups is how you deal with RAIDs or entire locations dying, ergo, offsite backup.
And multiple Plug installations seems to cover the concurrent offsite sync part of that.
Re: Plug: the brain of your devices
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Re: Plug: the brain of your devices
#86I don't believe this project can accomplish all of what it claims it will.
Media streaming alone is an art and a science all in itself. There are various formats, encoders, decoders, etc... This is why AirServer/AirVideo is its own thing already... and I'm sure they're very busy.
http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/
And file sync plus version management? Resolving conflicts there is yet another art all in itself.
It would be amazing if they could pull 50% of this off, and even at 50%, their engineers have their work cut out for them BIGTIME.
Re: Plug: the brain of your devices
#87I don't believe this project can accomplish all of what it claims it will. Media streaming alone is an art and a science all in itself. There are various formats, encoders, decoders, etc... This is why AirServer/AirVideo is its own thing already... and I'm sure they're very busy. http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/ And file sync plus version management? Resolving conflicts there is yet another art all in itself. It wo…
This is just a Linux server running something like Samba [1] to share files across your local network or the internet.
Quite basic stuff. I've had this setup at home for ages, using some old cheap laptops/computers.
You can actually replicate this on Windows or Mac natively. Just share a folder.
Am I missing the exciting part?
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Edit: for crying out loud, my media-center has a sharing functionality. Which means my media-center does exactly what this Plug thing supposed to do, without all the non-sense proprietary marketing shenanigans.
Wake up people. This tech has been around for ages!
Re: Plug: the brain of your devices
#88"Ever needed to send hundreds of pictures to a friend? With Plug, we invented a technology to transfer files instantly. No matter their size, no matter their number. That’s also part of our job to simplify storage." How exactly are they planning to make that a reality? Say I've been out filming with my GoPro and my friend wants the clips, or I've taken some photographs with a DSLR (which are at least >5MB in size per…
I suspect that by "transferring" the files they mean "transferring a token allowing the recipient to access the files from your plug". From there, under their (debatable) underlying assumption that accessing files from a plug from your device is fast, it's as if the data has been transferred: recipient can view the files on their device, except they're being fetched from your plug (and maybe copied to their own plug…
That was what I was thinking too, but it all depends on everyone having high-speed internet.
Which will happen in the future, but at the moment there are lots of people with How widespread is 4G connectivity in the world?
Re: Plug: the brain of your devices
#89I don't believe this project can accomplish all of what it claims it will. Media streaming alone is an art and a science all in itself. There are various formats, encoders, decoders, etc... This is why AirServer/AirVideo is its own thing already... and I'm sure they're very busy. http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/ And file sync plus version management? Resolving conflicts there is yet another art all in itself. It wo…
This is just a Linux server running something like Samba [1] to share files across your local network or the internet. Quite basic stuff. I've had this setup at home for ages, using some old cheap laptops/computers. You can actually replicate this on Windows or Mac natively. Just share a folder. Am I missing the exciting part? -- Edit: for crying out loud, my media-center has a sharing functionality. Which means my m…
You're missing a lot more than the exciting part. You need to wake up yourself, go back and read it again then come back and tell us how to to all that with samba (of all things).
Re: Plug: the brain of your devices
#90I like how this image:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/000/719/044/5881e3534d86...
totally rips off the Sparrow icon:
