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Re: How to auto post Smugmug picture updates to Twitter and Facebook

Pavan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:53:51 -0000

Thanks Gareth.. this is very helpful.

Re: How Can We Expect Companies to Be Open If We Remain Closed?

Pavan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:29:07 -0000

Had Facebook started by being so open, it probably wouldn't have had as much success. One reason people share a lot of things on Facebook is because they believe they are sharing with a 'trusted circle of friends'.

Re: How Can We Expect Companies to Be Open If We Remain Closed?

Pavan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:08:15 -0000

Don't agree on this one. I don't see what's wrong with people not choosing to share their personal information.

Re: Second day with the S90

Pavan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:17:20 -0000

That's a good reason to take a person's portrait well zoomed in.

Re: Which iPhone app is better, Dropbox or Pixelpipe?

Pavan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:25:47 -0000

Just to make sure, I removed the ourdoings pipe, created a new pipe url in ourdoings and then added back in pixelpipe; same behaviour.

Re: Which iPhone app is better, Dropbox or Pixelpipe?

Pavan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:08:43 -0000

As an app to take photos, review them and then upload, Pixelpipe seems better. But for some reason, my test upload from the Pixelpipe app did not work. With this app, one can take say a bunch of photos and select a few and hit upload.

The test photo from Dropbox app on the other hand, worked pretty well. However taking photos and uploading from this app appears as an afterthought. You take a photo and hit 'Use' and it automatically gets uploaded to Dropbox and appears in OurDoings.

Re: Beta Testers Wanted: Dropbox to OurDoings

Pavan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:11:41 -0000

This is by far the best uploading method I have come across. I've been using this for the past month and it really saves a lot of time.

Re: Inside the mind of a nervous friendfeed user

Pavan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:08:49 -0000

I couldn't make much sense of this deal. For instance, what would Facebook gain by this deal other than to make sure that a potential competitor glides carefully under its wing?

Re: Backups

Pavan — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:33:50 -0000

Glad I could help.. just one more thing (you probably know this but I'll mention it anyway). Rsync does not delete any thing on the remote side unless you give the --delete option. I noticed you were not using it.

Re: Backups

Pavan — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:22:04 -0000

I thought rsync needs access to full files at both source and destination in order to transmit the minimum set of differences. When you have the source and destination at remote places, the differences can be calculated locally and only the differences get transmitted. If you mount the volume, rsync in trying to access files on the mounted volume downloads them, evaluates the difference with local files and then transmits the differences to the mounted volume, which is a waste of bandwidth. At least this is how I understand rsync.

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Re: If The Message Is Important, It Will Find Me

Pavan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:12:41 -0000

and to ask the man not be selfish would be in our selfish interest; which is kind of hypocritical..

Re: If The Message Is Important, It Will Find Me

Pavan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:10:21 -0000

I agree with you Fred. I have a philosophical note to add:

There was and always is a lot of information in the world; it's just that it is much easier to find today. And why does one require all this information; basically to use this information to do what he likes and be happy at the end of the day. Once you figure that out it is not imperative to stay on top of everything and know everything. And yes, if it is important it will surely find you; as a colleague of mine once said, "If the email is important, they will send it again."