[GRLUG] "real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ; ) "

[mikemol at gmail.com]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Ben DeMott <ben.demott at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Linus admitted that when his invention was ridiculed by the creator of Minx
>> it was the hardest, and most difficult time to continue in development. In
>> fact he stopped posting in the Minx boards for some times.
>>
>> Not everyone is thick skinned, and as bone-headed as some of us (myself
>> included) - All I can ask is we approach ideas with temperance.
>
> I'm not saying it's better to be mean; I'm as sensitive to harsh
> comments as any one else. But given a choice between the creator of
> Minix telling me my operating system is a bad idea, and having him
> saying nothing, I'd rather have the unpleasant opinion. If you really
> believe in your wild and crazy idea, you should look for useful advice
> in his comments and take his criticism as a challenge. At any rate, by
> responding, he has opened himself up to a further dialogue, which I
> think we can all agree is a good thing.
>
>
>> As to the Bit Torrent thing:
>>
> I think there'd be much more buy-in to joining the torrent if the data
> were available for use by the end user. Why must the data be
> encrypted? I mean why not let me take the tarball and run it on my
> netbook so I can have an offline copy?

Because the type of backup I'm concerned about includes a full MySQL dump, which means usernames, password hashes and email addresses, as well as a filesystem dump of relevant areas, which means access logs, error logs, db passwords and private keys for reCAPTCHA and Amazon Associates.

However, the idea of doing a public, unencrypted torrent feed of the page, history, category and user(only certain columns) tables is *very* intriguing in itself.

Is anyone else having trouble with FireGPG breaking the wrapping of emails? I'm getting tired of correcting it.

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