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From: Ben Shimmin on 22 Jun 2010 18:26 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk>: > Chris Leuty <news2010(a)leuty.me.uk> wrote: >> Dropbox has 2GB free online storage > > Thank you. My son in law uses it to send large music files (his music, > not commercial stuff although his music is commercial) and it seems to > be working. I too was going to recommend Dropbox. I don't use it for sharing files externally -- just between my work computer and my laptop, and occasionally my iPhone or iPad -- but it's been a revelation. Great product. b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert
From: SM on 22 Jun 2010 18:39 Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > I too was going to recommend Dropbox. I don't use it for sharing files > externally -- just between my work computer and my laptop, and occasionally > my iPhone or iPad -- but it's been a revelation. Great product. If it was an Apple service it would be, um, magical - so good. Several Macs, a PC, an iPhone synced here. Stuart -- cut that out to reply
From: Rowland McDonnell on 22 Jun 2010 22:40 Mark <captain.black(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Peter Ceresole wrote: > > > I have to send somebody 300MB worth of slides. They have a pissy > > Blueyonder account so the largest attachment they can receive is about > > 25MB. Yousendit want to charge nine bucks a month for the ability to > > send a message that size. So I bought a cheap Peckham Council 2GB thumb > > drive, wrapped it in a letter and sent it. And it arrived slit open and > > empty. Bastards. > > > > As she lives in London, cheapest and safest is to use my bus pass and > > deliver it by sneakernet. Anybody got a better idea? > > > > Something like <http://isendr.com/> ? Is there any way to tell if a site like that is safe, at all? Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 22 Jun 2010 22:50 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Post a CD. > > Nope. Obvious, and posties steal those too- or at least, they have done > so to me in the past. Ye gods. Amazed they bother these days. > When I say 'posties', I just mean 'somebody in the system'. I don't > necessarily mean our local delivery people. From what I've seen of the PO operations, it's the posties on the street who are about the only ones not closely monitored in operation, so /as far as I could see/, they've got the best opportunities for theft from the system. The only post I ever sent that was nicked was a cheque sent to Girobank years ago, in the special Girobank envelopes, taken into a post office for what they *claimed* was the high security route: they stamped the envelope seal specially, put it in a special sack for direct delivery to Girobank via a special route (I saw that done) and told me it was `guaranteed' to arrive now. When the cheque didn't arrive, the PO disclaimed all knowledge, said that it was nothing to do with them, that it must have been the bank because it was absolutely impossible for post to go missing on the way to Girobank once I'd put it in the system like, and so on. Girobank's people were a bit surprised, and one called the PO lot `as much use as a chocolate teapot' after having spoken to them trying to figure out what might have gone wrong. Anyway, it was a crossed cheque, no harm done, got another, sorted - but a few weeks later, and that was my student grant, that was, so it was a bit awkward. Since seeing the insides of a sorting office, I concluded that actually those special sacks were probably lower security than the usual routes, because they're not monitored so closely. Post sent to me has often not arrived. Some of recorded delivery - I've seen the dockets and all that stuff to prove, yep, it really does seem to have been sent recorded but went missing in transit. But no post that I've sent by popping it into a letter box without special precautions visible on the outside has gone missing - including letters containing crinkly notes of cash. I've never quite figured all that out. Rowland. P.S. Girbank got taken over by Alliance and Leicester, which had awful customer service. And then A&L got bought by Santander - which has improved things already, wahey! Rescued by the bloody Spanish, whatever next eh? -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: The Older Gentleman on 23 Jun 2010 02:23
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Is there any way to tell if a site like that is safe, at all? Use it until it's proved otherwise. Simples. -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com |