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Joyent, Strongspace and my Samba Server

We use Joyent (affiliate link) for our mail (born out of Textdrive). Last weekend, the Joyfolks updated the application to a new version (and had quite a few problems in the process). One of the new features is Strongspace integration. Strongspace is a secure storage on the Net (accessible through SFTP, SCP and the like) that I have used for online backups for quite a while. At first I didn’t think much of the integration, but then it dawned on me, that I could sync our companies shared folder (which lives on a Samba server) to Joyent to get access to all our data when not in the office. Turns out, that this is really easy to do: ...

Jens-Christian Fischer
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SwissRug Meeting Notes 1.3.2007

Just 9 people met this time for the SwissRug meeting, but we had some really interesting demos and discussions…. Florian Hanke started of by showing a little application he had thrown together to get his computer to speak to him (a childhood dream). It’s called “James” and based on the speech recognition and synthesis of Mac OS X, couple with the ruby cocoa bridge. In just a couple of lines of Ruby. He’s planning to build an extensible open source application for interacting with the Mac. In his demo, he was able to get a time table for the train through the SBB website. Impressive! ...

Jens-Christian Fischer
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PR Blogging

Was fur ein Schwachsinn! Der PR Blogger gibt Short Tipps fur die Blog-Promotion - etwa einen “Blog Karneval”, “Blog-Schnitzeljagd”, “Blog-Advent” und ahnlichem Unfug (“Promoblogging”). Irre ich mich, oder vergisst Herr Eck etwas ganz entscheidendes? Na? Keine Ahnung? Wie ware es mit … Inhalt? Blogs wie der Turmsegler leben durch die liebevolle Aufbereitung von Lyrik. Nja.ch durch treffende Beobachtungen aus dem Berufs- und Familienalltag. Blog-Advent! Und wenn schon (Blog-)Marketing, dann sollte Herr Eck vielleicht mal bei Gapingvoid vorbeischauen - da wird Marketing fur richtige Produkte gemacht. ...

Jens-Christian Fischer