Opensource slowing down? "GoogleDrive" private cloud

Yes.

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john james
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Could you suggest any? I am genuinely interested - I couldn't locate any with much googling...

I'm also looking for an RSS reader that can prefetch the linked story as a web page and cache it - to deal with the spectacularly poor RSS feeds on british media that put about 1 sentence in the RSS description!

(There are quite a lot of things that I wonder "why does this not exist"? I guess I should brush up on my Android programming and write one... I did dabble with hacking on some open source app once - an alarm clock. I managed to hack on the features I wanted (and offered them back to the author). Trouble I found, apart from having to run up that monstrosity, eclipse, is there is a bugger of a lot of stuff in even a trvial app just to make the very basics work.

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Tim Watts

Eclipse is deprecated for Android development now. They've changed to Android Studio, which is based on IntelliJ IDEA.

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Tony Houghton

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Haven't tried it, someone suggested it recently and it looked interesting because I had been considering doing that myself.

Not that I have anything that matters much on any cloud, more just as something to suggest to those who refuse to use a cloud under any circumstances because their stuff isn't secured. Some are surprisingly paranoid about them.

I do use them myself, but just for completely automatic availability of stuff that I do use on the phones which is almost always prepared on the desktop systems, mostly extracts from the databases of stuff like clothes sizes, best prices I have seen for stuff I buy much of etc.

Haven't tried looking myself, but presumably putting that rather unique name should show some competitors.

Don?t do that myself, I use the podcast system on the phone and our national govt radio broadcaster for stuff to listen to when walking for exercise.

Yeah, I just discover that the phone won't do video with no audio, you have to post process and strip the audio, pretty crude.

Trouble is that that can be a lot of work. The only game I play is Freecell Pro and I'd love to have that on the phone, but it?s a lot of work, particularly for the solver that that has.

I've done that with Win but a combination stop watch, count down timer with the commonly used times as buttons. Better than anything I can find for the phone which I do use for some stuff I do quite a bit like the spirits distilling which has some rather complex timer ops but haven't yet got off my arse and done it for the phone which would be the most handy when doing the distilling.

Yeah, that's the problem with Freecell and the timer, and it irritates the hell out of me that it shouldn?t be necessary to do all that again particularly the basic user interface stuff that you need with the phone.

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john james

I've modified an Open Source newsreader (xvnews) that no-one uses any more and something else that I've now forgotten.

I started to look at fixing a really irritating UI glitch in "SimpleScan". I downloaded the source, and since I've been doing this shit for a looooong time, I first tried to build the unmodified source. It wouldn't build. It turns out that Canonical do all kinds of weird stuff to get software to fit into their world. I gave up. Learning curve too steep. Skills (and brain) too old.

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Huge

That's certainly the right question to be asking.

I thought someone had wanted the NAS and it's PSU to be usable after the fire, but rereading today I can't find it.

Indeed so ... and on the ethernet and USB connectors, though the power input is more likely to cause trouble.

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Daniel James

Dunno if my own RSS Home Page template might help, but here it is, just in case it does ...

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Java Jive

Ethernet is pretty bomb-proof by design.

USB is very much a weak point. There nothing bar a simple polyfuse protecting the +5V line, and the I/O ones are totally vulnerable. Indeed, recently I read about some b**tard designing a device - masquerading as memory stick - that keeps pulsing these with a very high voltage, resulting in severe MB damage :(

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Folderol

This sounds more and more a problem with Android apps becaus the ssh server doesn't need to know how the data needs to be shuffled around.

Still sounds like getting working apps built and may be a multi-user server application that needs to manage users and remember what it must do.

That I think summarizes the problem. The need is for someone to make the whole process easier by adding server application and probably web applications that allow Android and Chrome to control the transfer instead of doing it manually.

The server itself would be ssh, and the primary method for file transfer would be rsync. Easy enough to do, but you might have to pay someone ;)

I did my automation tool using Gambas over a couple of days. May be you can give it a try? Its not that difficult. And it does have a non-GUI mode for writing applications that run as servers which start up when the machine boots.

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Yes - and think of the effect of a good, hot fire on the rats-nest of cables under the desk behind the NAS box. Who's to say that you wouldn't get 240v on the CAT5 or a USB cable?

But, I wouldn't expect the motherboard to survive the file: it looks to be outside the fireproofing wrapped round the disk, so with such a design you can do all you need by putting a high voltage shunt across the SATA leads as they enter the fireproof disk area.

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Martin Gregorie

Do I detect a Socialist?

Once defined to me as someone who votes for someone else to do, at someone else's expense, what he cant be bothered to do for himself?

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The Natural Philosopher

OK, just heard back form Trevor Potts and the ioSafe guys.

I asked: "When the PSU shorted out due to the fire, could it have fried the disks by letting AC get into the NAS box or does it have designed-in features that would prevent this happening?

As it looks, to me anyway, like a standard laptop power brick, this seems like a reasonable question. I'll be very interested to hear what you have to say about it. "

And the reply from ioSafe is:

"In such an event, the worst case scenario is that any data in transit would be lost. The data on the drives would not be lost. "

...so it looks as though they've thought about this problem.

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Martin Gregorie

Or they didn't understand the question... since they don't explain what measures they've taken to prevent this happening.

Theo

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Theo Markettos

I think you need to ask "What happens when the power brick melts and mains gets applied to the 12V DC input of the NAS? What stops it frying the disks?"

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dennis

Or, they want you to assume they've thought about it

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Andy Burns

Request for clarification sent.

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Martin Gregorie

I wrote: "The scenario I'm interested in is where there is the usual rats nest of cables behind the 214 and the fire gets into this, melting or burning insulation so a live mains conductor contacts a wire in any of the CAT5, USB or DC power cable so that mains voltage gets into the 214's PCB. Is there anything in the 214's circuits that would prevent that frying the disk drive electronics? "

and the reply was: "As it happens, burning the cables is no more likely to result in data loss than simply improperly pulling the plug. We actually perform our fire testing with the units plugged in and powered on. "

So I guess you'll draw your own conclusions. I'm out of this thread. Toodle-pip.

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Martin Gregorie

I can't speak for "the cloud" in general but OneDrive synchs on all computers on which the client is installed (you don't need to install the client to use the service--you can also access it using a web browser and download whatever you need but you lose the transparency), so for all my OneDrive files I eventually end up with four copies, one on my workstation, one on my server, one on my laptop, and one at Microsoft. Which unless Microsoft decides to screw me over with my own data, is actually a pretty good arrangement--it would take a fairly substantial disaster to lose all copies.

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J. Clarke

/Not my client, my news server (albasani) that doesnt like cross posts without a follow-up set /q

Heh, Google groups copes better I believe....

Jim K

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JimK

DropBox works the same way. One copy on every installed computer and one on their cloud servers. Exception is mobile devices which download on demand. I believe the android client will let you specify particular files to keep locally.

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Joe Beanfish

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