Google Drive Launch Imminent
Last week I lost my Dropbox account and looking around it seems that Google's free Google Drive product is about to launch.
That could be a reliable replacement
There has been code to support the drive in Google products for a while.
http://www.beussery.com/blog/index.php/2012/02/google-drive/
First half of April seems to be the general consensus and as it is now the 14th, I could be firing on all cylinders again real soon now.
That could be a reliable replacement
There has been code to support the drive in Google products for a while.
http://www.beussery.com/blog/index.php/2012/02/google-drive/
First half of April seems to be the general consensus and as it is now the 14th, I could be firing on all cylinders again real soon now.
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drive.google.com
Clicking the above link gets a secure connection with a fake 404.
What happened?
Bit poor compared with the 25GB you get from SkyDrive though. Given that Google at least claim I have a 7GB+ email inbox, I'd have thought they'd do something a bit more than 5GB.
I've been looking forward to this for AGES.
I strayed into a ZX Clique
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5048073/BHNL22.pdf
:-)
It looks like you hosted a file that is (c) to Andrew Own and he made a DMCA complaint to DropBox who then closed your account?
Google Drive is rolling out and clicking here
http://drive.google.com/start
gets you notified.
More here
http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/introducing-google-drive-yes-really.html
Just the place for your Docs, PDFs and beyond
Nice! Thanks for the heads-up. :)
Yep, just installed it ... lots of ideas from DropBox here. Native GDoc files only display as 1KB in size, although *.doc/*.pdf uploads displaying normally. I had previously used Syncdocs to do all of this - presumably they won't be too happy. Useful to have another cloud backup service, I guess...
Nx
"We'll email you at gwearmouth@gmail.com
when your Google Drive is ready. Learn more"
I've spread so much love to Google.
I've even bigged them up here.
WT*! Am I on some kind of cloud storage blacklist ? :-)
Pyskool - a remake of Skool Daze and Back to Skool
Pyskool - a remake of Skool Daze and Back to Skool
I got an email after standing in line all day.
I think that they are rolling out alphabetically.
--
Geoff Aardvark
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/how-far-do-google-drives-terms-go-in-owning-your-files/75228
I'll stick with Dropbox for now.
As well as "owning" my stuff I noticed this familiar guff
"We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement and terminate accounts of repeat infringers according to the process set out in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act."
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5048073/BHNL22.pdf
I'll be more careful this time :-)
You mean you'll stop stealing other people's copyright material and respect their rights? I find that very hard to believe.
It was extracts from a fanzine that I had been putting together at one point. Because of certain events that I don't want to drag up, the content was taken in a different light than that in which it was written, and as such I withdrew it from circulation, as is my right. Not only did Geoff not respect that right, he went on to insult all of the contributors. I didn't intend for him to lose his DropBox account, but he has no-one but himself to blame.
Thank you for sating my curiosity (nosiness :lol:).
Byte High No Limit is a fanzine that was put together in #speccy.
There was some sort of trouble with the full magazine and it only went out complete in Turkey. A limited edition consisting of a few pages watermarked 'cancelled' and allegedly approved by Martijn for publication was eventually hosted by Andrew Owen on his website http://sites.google.com/site/sebasic2/BHNL22.PDF
Andrew in his bio said it was one of his six great achievements.
Appeals were made in #speccy for articles taking the **** out of Geoff and Nick - Gareth Outflow and Rick Hrumphy if you have a copy.
A lighter part of the tomfoolery is that I am a typical Daily Mail reader.
I just ignored it though as usual I copied it to my dropbox account as Andrew can be a bit ephemeral. Then the editor started lampooning me in WoS Forums about the Daily Mail character and to give any confused readers some background information, I changed my sig to point to the tomfoolery.
There was no theft involved. It is fair use to copy a bit of satire if you are the target. After all, this publication was planned over many weeks and it was months before I linked to it.
I haven't lost my Dropbox account yet but I will do and I can no longer share. Many of my past postings to WoS are now missing their images (such as the pages from the Orange manual system variables)
It's almost as bad as deleting them :-)
My friends, relatives and editor who also share my Dropbox for other interests are being told that there is heavy traffic on my account when they try to access my work :-)
Simples :) I use gdrive.
No, it wasn't.
No, there wasn't.
No, it didn't.
Martijn had nothing to do with it. The SE BASIC site was just a convenient place to put it.
I've never said any of my achievements were great. That's for others to decide. I certainly wouldn't list anything Spectrum related in a list of my six 'great' achievements. If I had to list them it would be performing the haka in the New Zealand parliament, interviewing Jesse Jackson for WBAI radio in New York, sailing around the Baltic on a replica of Peter the Great's first frigate, surviving my childhood, touring Australia with a wheelchair user where we did all the stuff disabled people aren't supposed to be able to do, and my relationship with my wife.
No, they weren't. I wrote the letters page myself. It was supposed to be a spoof. Following the big bust-up with NickH it looked nasty. It was meant to be light hearted. That's why I pulled distribution.
I'm the editor. I haven't been in the forums since last June. I'm not sure what Geoff is talking about here.
Offering in its entirety a publication for which you do not own the rights without permission is a criminal copyright offence.
If you lodge a copyright complaint with DropBox, nowhere does it indicate that an infringer's account will be suspended.
I am now going to take the advice of my fellow IRCers and stop responding to Geoff's provocation. I leave the matter in the hands of the mods.
It could be over-reaction to some "World Class" legal stuff that you'd expect from google nowadays but there's some claims out there that google can "own" whatever you put in your google drive......just read all the stuff before agreeing - if you don't you could end up being part of a human centipede or something....
Sounds like quotes are OK.
"We decided to go for a Private
Eye style spoof on the
World of Spectrum forums.
Therefore this month’s BH
Trainspotter’s Award is
duly awarded to Martijn
van der Heide for pointing
out that Sinlair Infoseek
is a relational database,
and for being a good sport
about this spoof."
So WoSF members are not allowed to read your spoof.
Sounds a bit cliquey to me.
Get a new proofreader :-)
Thanks. Glad you liked it. The whole mag was supposed to be similarly light hearted. After certain events that we've both mutually agreed are best left in the past, it didn't read quite the same, so I pulled distribution. I still have plans to use the name, but not for anything Speccy related.
@Karingal: I didn't read this as an attempted troll. As far as I'm aware NickH and I have mutually accepted that we both let things get out of hand and neither one of us holds a grudge against the other.
Don't know if you've seen this video of SpecBas doing something very similar on a PC.