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Dropbox, I love you, but …

Filed under: General — Thomas @ 11:56

2010-11-05
11:56


[thomas@otto ~]$ dropbox stop
Dropbox isn't running!
[thomas@otto ~]$ dropbox start
Dropbox is already running!

Seriously, if you shout harder either statement might jump out of quantum space and correct itself into reality.

6 Comments »

  1. I hate the dropbox client. The service is so cool but why don’t they have a good public API so people can write stuff for it. You can try the Ubunut cloud which is more “open” :)

    Comment by Didi — 2010-11-05 @ 11:59

  2. Check out the preview releases of dropbox: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=26578
    They’ve fixed a lot of issues for me.

    Comment by Willis — 2010-11-05 @ 14:30

  3. Drop dropbox, use sparkleshare!

    Comment by Máirín Duffy — 2010-11-05 @ 14:44

  4. the following statement is true. the previous statement is false. <— originally by a friend of mine =D

    Comment by Rolandixor — 2010-11-05 @ 20:42

  5. Roland, unless your friend was an ancient Greek, he was probably plagiarizing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_paradox

    Comment by Thomas — 2010-11-08 @ 23:18

  6. Until you open the box and make an observation, Schroedinger’s daemon is both alive and dead.

    Comment by Josh Surber — 2010-11-07 @ 04:15

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