I am one of those strange techs and use IE 7 so that may be why others have not noticed the fault if it only shows up in that

copied from my feed list -

The Global Geek Podcast #79 :: Invaded by the UK
07 May 2008, 16:18:39
Welcome to the GGP for this week. Pressing on with one short - hope that Cait is getting better!

The flickr vidoe interested me in that flickr is associated with good quality images, as you said, not videos. Perhaps this is not the path they should travel.

Oh, and I sent a couple links to the Global Geek Feedback Gmail address about portable apps…

So, there, I had a legitimate comment anyway.

Cait

*pifs another hell at herne

This being my 9th week of “we’ll slow down next week. It’ll just take a couple more days.”

Cait

Meh… same same…

I just wanted to say; Can’t help but notice that Cait hasn’t updated her blog recently…

(now ducking and running)

But yeah I agree with you. But then as I said in the podcast it is is a great solution for people that don’t want the hassle of setting it up.

What happens say after two years of using this service on your website and building up a successful forum with many users and lots of useful threads, that ‘due to unforeseen server use and storage issues’, Lefora decide to delete all old threads to free up space, or even ask for an annual fee to maintain the service. Their terms of use don’t seem to rule this out:

‘Lefora reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, this Site, the Software and/or the Services (or any part thereof) with or without notice at any time.’

I’ve seen server and software issues on forums before and the ‘loss’ of old threads. Really annoying as tech forums for example are often a really good resource. You remember reading an interesting thread but when you search you find some old threads have disappeared.

Lefora may be best for hosting a forum which the webmaster doesn’t want to be a long-term searchable resource and doesn’t mind losing old threads or pulling out altogether if asked to pay an annual fee at a later date.

On the other hand, paying a fee may be fine if it’s a good reliable service.

You should see the horrible spelling that some editors try to put into US textbooks…

@Eric: No OS is safe. Computers aren’t safe. Unless you want to disconnect it from every possible threat and have it run nothing but a fibonacci number generator that you wrote all by yourself in assembler… there’s a chance of a hole. The more people use an OS, the more quickly the holes get found.

General comment: That wordpress upgrade plugin looks really good. I’ll have to try it out. Sure beats the Unix shell script I wrote lst year.

@Eric fanatic… Noooooooooo…

@Khang: Thanks for responding to our mention of your service and the explanation of the origins of the name. Plus don’t worry it was not your site that was not loading - that was desktopia’s site. Yours was fine. Keep up the good work!

I’ll have a read. I really respect what you’re doing here and I value your stand.

That said I am a religious fanatic and I believe BSD is vastly superior to anything else.

btw - I do not work at Sun or Apple nor would I claim Apple offers any sort of security.

Thanks for mentioning Simplebucket.com on your podcast. I loved every moment of it. You guys brought up a lot of valid points.

@kate: yes, I’m listening…. Simplebucket does bring up some similarity of with “the other bucket”, but I have to go with Dave on bucket is a pretty generic thing and my motivation behind the site’s name wasn’t trying to copy “the other bucket”. The inspiration behind the name is actually because Simplebucket utilizes Amazon Web Services, S3, to host the photos and “bucket” is a terminology referring a “folder” for each account. The simple part is pretty obvious and so Simplebucket!

@Dave: I’m sorry that the site did not load properly for you when you were trying. Let me know if you are still having problems.

Thanks

Khang Toh
Founder, Simplebucket.com

mutters

We have to be balanced. If this data was complete crap, then I would know about it. Additionally, there would be every open source blog on the planet up in arms about it. I have not seen anything come out of Red Hat on the issue.. they would be the first to be screaming.

Sorry you loose faith, but the facts are facts. I’ll admit when I am wrong every time. But in this case, I can’t see it. But if you can demonstrate that the data is false then I’ll be glad to be corrected. Heck we were wrong about the 100 dollar note!

Have a read of the document and let me know.