Re: [tlug] Dropbox

[Pietro Zuco <drzuco@example.com>]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Charles Muller
<cmuller-lst@example.com> wrote:
> I don't get it. Why would a group of people, most of whom have server
> access and the skills to write their own scripts using other kinds of
> synchronization tools need something like this?

Agree. It's so easy to make a script and rsync all the stuff.
Basically Dropbox is just that.
OK it has a nice iPhone app and it's ported to Mac/Win and almost any ecosystem.
Anyway I think that's not the main reason. Maybe the reason behind
that is the same that made me, after more than 10 years using Linux,
to switch to Mac and leave Linux in the server side only: *laziness*
More busy lives, getting older and willing to spend time in new
hobbies and projects. No time for writing scripts or configure any
hardware. It's just easy, just one click... Maybe that's the reason.

<OT> Today I spent one hour trying to find fix a script and then
realized that I was using the f.cking MaOS no-CaSe-sensitive
FileSystem. In that moment I remember that I shouldn't switch... </OT>

Pietro


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