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New steps for Slack on Twitter: “@thorduri 😣 You can always disable emoji conversion in Preferences > Emoji > Convert my typed emoticons to emoji. 👍”

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/18

After: @thorduri You can always disable emoji conversion in Preferences > Emoji > Convert my typed emoticons to emoji. [WayBack]

We live in the form-over-function era [WayBack], so of course this setting is not reachable by URL, only reachable by using these steps:

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Cloud, Cloud Apps, Infrastructure, Internet, Power User, SocialMedia | Leave a Comment »

It was fun while it lasted: Barracuda Copy – Copy End-of-Life

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/05

Copy had some advantages and disadvantages. For instance, it was better handling long file names, character encodings in filenames and a lot easier to configure over a CNTLM proxy than DropBox, but unlike DropBox didn’t keep history of changes.

Alas no more copy.com as of 20160501: [WayBack] Barracuda Copy – Copy End-of-Life.

They suggest using [WayBackMover with OneDrive as target: [WayBackBarracuda Copy – Moving Your Data from Copy

Note that Mover has many more connectors, including cloud storage ones (Box, Copy, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Yandex.Disk are free):

[WayBack] Connectors • Mover: FTP, Dropbox, Box, GoogleDrive, Copy, Egnyte, Amazon S3, SharePoint, MySQL the list goes on!

For me it means it’s time to think about what kinds of cloud storage I want to use and how to share what data with others at which access level. As I’m already contemplating on how to use ZFS, I now have two storage concepts to think about.

–jeroen

Posted in Cloud, Cloud Apps, Cntlm, Copy.com, DropBox, Infrastructure, NTLM, Power User, SocialMedia, Windows, Windows-Http-Proxy | Leave a Comment »

Oh wow. Apparently all S3 buckets are also BitTorrent trackers.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/16

Interesting:

There is no extra charge for use of BitTorrent with Amazon S3. Data transfer via the BitTorrent protocol is metered at the same rate as client/server delivery. To be precise, whenever a downloading BitTorrent client requests a “piece” of an object from the…

Note

You can get torrent only for objects that are less than 5 GB in size.

via Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3 – Amazon Simple Storage Service.

–jeroen

via Oh wow. Apparently all S3 buckets are also BitTorrent trackers..

Posted in Amazon S3, Cloud Apps, Cloud Development, Development, Internet, Power User | Leave a Comment »

How To Get 36 TB Free Cloud Storage From Qihoo 360 Yunpan (Cloud Drive)?

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/03

Interesting:

To remove the language barrier, we have written a detailed step-by-step procedure to get the 36 TB free cloud storage from Qihoo 360 Cloud Drive.

For all those MSDN and TechNet ISOs that aren’t available on-line any more (:

–jeroen

via: How To Get 36 TB Free Cloud Storage From Qihoo 360 Yunpan (Cloud Drive)?.

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Microsoft OneDrive for Business modifies files as it syncs | Myce.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/22

Wow: Microsoft OneDrive for Business modifies files as it syncs | Myce.com.

For now Microsoft Cloud Storage is not the place for my data to be.

(Note: OneDrive used to be called SkyDrive)

The only cloud storage that worked for me without too much trouble is Copy.com. My referral there: https://copy.com?r=3NGul6.

–jeroen

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CloudConvert – convert anything to anything

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/13

For my link arvhive: CloudConvert – convert anything to anything.

Currently, the convert a staggering 180 formats in these categories:

  • archive
  • audio
  • cad
  • document
  • ebook
  • image
  • presentation
  • spreadsheet
  • vector
  • video

 

–jeroen

via: CloudConvert – Conversion Types.

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On my research list: Hojoki: Make All Your Cloud Apps Work As One

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/05

On my research list: Hojoki: Make All Your Cloud Apps Work As One.

Should read the comments at Flotsam and Jetsam #70.

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Some cloud storage / online backup providers compared (DropBox, Sugarsync, Bitcasa, …)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/31

I’ve been using a few cloud storage / online backup providers for a while on Mac and Windows now, with the primary goals of

  • being able to sync data between machines
  • having a backup online

Here are some pros/cons. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Cloud Apps, Development, DropBox, Encoding, Internet, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development, Unicode | 4 Comments »

Microsoft Azure: Storage certificate expired?

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/23

Reasons like this is why I distrust the cloud: Storage certificate expired?.

From Windows Azure Status: Service Dashboard | Technical Support:

Beginning Friday, February 22 at 12:44 PM PST, Storage experienced a worldwide outage impacting HTTPS operations (SSL traffic) due to an expired certificate. HTTP traffic was not impacted. We executed repair steps to update the SSL certificate and expect HTTPS traffic to notice gradual recovery in many sub-regions. Further updates will be published to keep you apprised of the situation. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes our customers. Status of affected services will be updated in  the table below.

–jeroen

via: Windows Azure Status: Service Dashboard | Technical Support.

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