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Trash Talk - Wuala Invites

Mine GO BOOM - Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:48 pm
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I've been playing with Wuala a lot recently and it is getting very nice. It is run by Google and getting almost daily updates. And like any good Alpha Google program, you get invites.

Recently, they've given me a bunch of invites, so I can send them out to anyone without caring now. So if you'd like one, send me a private message with your email address, or reply here with it. I have lots.

Be noted, I won't keep you as a friend, because you are yucky.

Samapico - Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:00 pm
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Do you need to be signed up to download? Or only to upload stuff?

Mine GO BOOM - Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:15 am
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Anyone can download it (super-secret hidden page), they just don't publish that link except in emails. You can't get an account without an invite.

Runs great on Win2k, WinXP, and Linux 2.6 (Gentoo and Ubuntu) for me. I have a friend who uses it with OS X and it runs great there too. Doesn't work in Vista 64bit yet, but they say it runs in 32bit OS.

Have to use the program to download and upload, as everything is in small packets randomly over the internet, and encrypted.

Bak - Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:34 am
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wasn't there a big problem with this before where people would unknowingly end up storing someone else's encrypted child porn on their computer?

Mine GO BOOM - Tue Jul 08, 2008 4:59 pm
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Bak wrote:

wasn't there a big problem with this before where people would unknowingly end up storing someone else's encrypted child porn on their computer?

You can, yes. But it is encrypted with a key you don't have access to, stored with no information describing what it is, and only pieces of it. Thus you have no legal worries about it, because it is no different than storing a file containing random information.

Also, by default, you can choose not to store anyone else's data. You just get more storage yourself if you store other's data (and have good uptime).

L.C. - Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:23 pm
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I wouldn't mind having one.

Samapico - Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:14 pm
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oh it's a program... I thought it was something on the cybarweb
so... emm... everyone else stores your own data? wtf? may I ask why they do that?

Bak - Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:11 pm
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because they don't have to buy a million servers and you can download from multiple sources at once?

Samapico - Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:32 pm
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<nvm>
can't delete this? pft

Mine GO BOOM - Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:44 pm
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Samapico wrote:

everyone else stores your own data? wtf? may I ask why they do that?

Youtube Video about it.

Bak - Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:38 am
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the Q&A is great... "Are you aware of system X that's been around for 5 years and does the exact same thing?"

Mine GO BOOM - Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:01 pm
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I still have 30 invites if anyone wants more. Plus, it seems everyone new gets 15 invites.

For those with Wuala, you can view all the higher quality images of the webserver.

Samapico - Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:30 am
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Mine GO BOOM wrote:

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Youtube Video about it.

Since when are youtube videos 50 minutes long?

but anyway, it's mostly like any P2P program. Plus the encryption thing so other people don't even know what they're hosting

looks pretty nice...

L.C. - Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:00 pm
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Since when are youtube videos 50 minutes long? icon_sad.gif

I don't know, but I've seen plenty of videos that are nearly an hour long (I think I've seen ones over an hour too).

Bak - Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:32 am
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if you have an old youtube account you can go longer than 11 minutes (grandfather clause)

D1st0rt - Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:07 pm
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Do they have a Linux client? I don't have as much space on my Windows box

Mine GO BOOM - Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:10 pm
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D1st0rt wrote:

Do they have a Linux client? I don't have as much space on my Windows box

Mine GO BOOM wrote:

Runs great on Win2k, WinXP, and Linux 2.6 (Gentoo and Ubuntu) for me. I have a friend who uses it with OS X and it runs great there too. Doesn't work in Vista 64bit yet, but they say it runs in 32bit OS.

D1st0rt - Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:24 pm
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Oh geez, how did I miss that.

Chambahs - Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:55 pm
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I pm'd you but i didnt get an invite

Mine GO BOOM - Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:42 am
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Chambahs wrote:

I pm'd you but i didnt get an invite :(

I sent it, so I'll send it again.

hellzlaker - Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:23 pm
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i read about it sounds pretty neat