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Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by jancborchardt »

matthewmacleod wrote: post #141

So I've been wanting to migrate away from Dropbox and onto a self-hosted solution for a while anyway, and I guess this would be a good opportunity to do so. Unfortunately, there don't appear to be any good open-source solutions at the moment. I'm not looking for a fancy web interface or anything, just a simple sync between devices, with a usable API for building apps. In particular, rsync etc. doesn't really offer th…

Simple syncing is what ownCloud does. Of course technically a server is inbetween, so it’s not directly between devices. LAN sync is requested sometimes, but currently not a priority.

Please do let us know about the things you miss – on our issue tracker at http://github.com/owncloud/core/issues And if you use IRC you’re welcome in #owncloud-dev (freenode).

And be sure that we have a lot of improvements lined up for ownCloud 7 which will come out in a few weeks.

EDIT: Also, if you have specific feedback on ownCloud’s usability and design let me know, I work on that.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by [deleted] »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #52
Pxtl wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, because she was a republican who was a key player in one of the worst administrations in the recent history of the US government. I don't have any problem with people who believe in small government, defense, the rule of law, and sound fiscal policy. Lying to the American public to justify a boondoggle of a war in Iraq is different. Al Gore, whatever his failings, doesn't have that kind of massive black mark on h…

Al Gore was a member of an administration that bombed Iraq, with the justification that Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction. (Coincidentally, the bombing coincided with Monica Lewinsky's testimony.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Iraq_(1998)

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Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by jonstewart »

mhurron wrote: post #296
jonstewart wrote: post #109

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Is there any Mac software that actually uses resource forks these days???

Everything? Aren't file associations on OS X still stored in the resource fork? I remember trying to move some designers to a NFS share off of a netatalk fileserver and they flipped out when neither they nor their Mac knew what to open files in.

netatalk, hooboy, that brings back memories.

Classic MacOS X stored the type and creator codes in the resource fork. Early versions of MacOS X discouraged this, but preserved and respected the codes if they were present. 10.6 Snow Leopard killed them off with the UTI (an unfortunate acronym) framework.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/09/22/inside-snow-leopard...

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by alttab »

mathattack wrote: post #350
alttab wrote: post #347

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So you don't hire against track record? Past performance is still the leading indicator of future success.

In tech entrepreneurship aren't we allowed to fail? And she is in an advisory role, not managerial.

When your social startup fails, it's not the Iraq war.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by wdr1 »

olefoo wrote: post #354
wdr1 wrote: post #353

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Isn't Al Gore on a few boards? But I get it. He's okay because he agrees with Your Politics. And Condi is bad because she agrees with Not Your Politics.

Did Al Gore knowingly lie to force the country into disastrous and ruinous wars? Did Al Gore approve warrantless wiretaps, illegal detainment of citizens and non-citizens and the use of torture by agents of the American Government? In her role as National Security Advisor Ms. Rice did both of those things. Now you might refuse to acknowledge that she is a war criminal, but that earns you the same contempt as someone…

Are you really asserting that Al Gore has done nothing wrong during his political career?

Even his most adamant supporters that I know IRL are aware of those shortcoming & acknowledge them.

> Now I have to tell you that I find your politics reprehensible

Interesting how much you purport to know. I haven't stated any political beliefs.

> You disgust me.

It's disappointing how quickly you resort to ad hominem attacks.

Consider the discussion over.

plonk

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by olefoo »

wdr1 wrote: post #365
olefoo wrote: post #354

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did Al Gore knowingly lie to force the country into disastrous and ruinous wars? Did Al Gore approve warrantless wiretaps, illegal detainment of citizens and non-citizens and the use of torture by agents of the American Government? In her role as National Security Advisor Ms. Rice did both of those things. Now you might refuse to acknowledge that she is a war criminal, but that earns you the same contempt as someone…

Are you really asserting that Al Gore has done nothing wrong during his political career? Even his most adamant supporters that I know IRL are aware of those shortcoming & acknowledge them. > Now I have to tell you that I find your politics reprehensible Interesting how much you purport to know. I haven't stated any political beliefs. > You disgust me. It's disappointing how quickly you resort to ad hominem attacks.…

a. You don't understand what an ad hominem actually is.

b. Show me exactly where Al Gore committed an outright war crime.

c. If you think that war crimes are a mere baguatelle and should not interfere with a politicians later life in civil society; that is in itself a reprehensible political stance.

If justice were a feature of this world the entire war cabinet of the first Bush administration would be serving time; I'm sorry that you live in such an insulated little bubble that the murder of more than a million Iraqi civilians due to the documentable lies of the aforementioned does not register on your moral radar.

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