@stevelong: Not really. They provide nothing more interesting themselves because they've determined to not go into e-mail services providing proper, preferring to focus in the web hosting aspect of the business almost exclusively. Their e-mail forwarding service is only a convenience for people who don't want a 3rd…

VOTE: NearlyFreeSpeech.Net

@kaiz3n: XP in the phase of its lifecycle when all Microsoft does is to fix security bugs, and very rare non-security-related bugs. New features for it simply aren't developed anymore, and if they are, they aren't free, one must pay to get them, the reason being that usually only big corporations with thousands of old…

@Punch Rockgroin: NearlyFreeSpeech.net

@UnderLoK: The 2nd option is RackSpace. It doesn't charge for transfers, only for storage (the same $0.15/GB S3 charges), but it's also not independent. With S3 you can have your own account *or* let JD manage it for you via their own account. With RSC the managed account is the single option.

@Michael C Pearson: The $20 option doesn't exist since a few months. It's now a fully subscription-based software. On the up side, it now includes a basic amount of "free" storage (5 GB of JD-managed RackSpace Cloud storage), with the old Plus service integrated. On the down-side, that's a $2 to $3/month minimum, that…

@icefyre: Actually it's the other way around. Their KB explains that the software has trouble syncing linked things on some OSes (read: Windows junctions), so they recommend you move the actual files into the DropBox folder, then create links *to* them from the original place.

@Lifeboy: It works the same, except Dropbox is multiplatform and Ubuntu One is Linux-only. But if you use Linux, nothing prevents you from running both simultaneously. Put what you never, ever, expect having to sync to anything but another Linux box (custom .deb and .rpm files? your /etc folder? all of…

@warsaw_andy: 1) No. Dropbox is an all or nothing approach. But there's a workaround: you can open a secondary 2GB free account, share a folder on your 50GB account with this one, and keep in there only the files you need Right Now(TM). Then only install the free account on other computers.

@pupils: Take care with this "forever". Mozy has (or at least had, last time I checked a few months ago) a one-month data hold policy. If your HD crashes, it's better you make sure you can download everything inside this timeframe, otherwise what you didn't recover will start disappearing.

@CheesyPeteza: This is one of the advantages os JungleDisk. Since they pass the storage costs to you, they don't auto-delete anything unless you explicitly configure the software to do so. If you don't, and you're willing to pay the $0.15 per GB it takes, you can keep years upon years upon years of old file versions…

@volksdragon: I'd guess most of the contenders use S3 behind the scenes. At least it's the case with DropBox, and also with JungleDisk (since they've bought by RackSpace they added RackSpace's servers in addition to S3, but S3 is still there). #onlinebackup

Hmm... the article doesn't say Pirate Bay *the site* is going down, it says their *tracker* is going down, with all links on site being replaced by trackerless Magnet links. Sure, it can also mean the site itself is going down, but that's not necessarily the case. #filesharing

VOTE: JungleDisk #onlinebackup

@brottmayer: If they don't allow you to do it in their computers, you're risking your job by doing anything that bypasses your IT dept rules. Best thing is to ask someone with authority for you to be allowed to access it. Doing it "by the rules" can be time consuming, but it's the most secure way.

@anithinks: Its slowness comes from scanning for missing MS security patches. That takes a looooong time, just like Windows Update's built-in scanner itself. #softwareupdates

For myself I use mostly FileHippo, but for "common" people I prefer to install Secunia PSI, as most of them don't like to install updates they see as pointless (which most updates are, let's face it). Since Secunia only warns about softwares that are insecure and for which there are updates available, it gives way…

@EnricoCachuwanna: Well, while I'm not in playing games (emulated or not) anymore, I see one situation when playing them this way is more morally legit. In some countries such as mine (Brazil), electronic imports are extremely overtaxed, so much so that they cost 3 to 4 times more than in the US or Europe. A DS, for…

@paintbox: Change your home page to "[www.google.com]". The "/ncr" in the end means "no country redirect", and will do exactly that. You'll never ever end up in a country-specific Google home page again.

@tylerf: "No trilogy should have more than four books." ;)