There is always hope...
http://blog.xmarks.com/?p=2007X
I actually quit looking for a replacement and switched to the hope for a white knight rescue. Really good technology is hard to find, Xmarks has it.
This is more aggravating, since I've just finished installing and synchronizing my bookmarks across all of my machines. *sigh*...
http://www.xmarks.com/msie/upgrade/1.3.0
I guess I'll be shopping for a new solution this weekend.
So, after procrastinating for a great while, I have finally installed Xmarks, LassPass, and CrashPlan. This is not the most important set of to do items that I have, but they need to be done.
I live on four different computers (not counting virtual machines), and my bookmarks desperately needed cleaning up and synchronizing. I may actually start using bookmarks again, after resisting them and using my memory and Google. Xmarks has many good reviews and a fair deal of cross-platform-bowser support. Whatever it takes to keep me organized is a good thing.
My website passwords were getting sloppy and packing around a logbook was not practical. After hearing Steve Gibson's review of LastPass on the Security Now podcast, I was convinced that it was the password manager for me. Xmarks can do it, but at this point someone would have to convince Steve Gibson to switch away from LassPass before I would.
CrashPlan has a home plan for unlimited data on all the household's PC's hosted in the cloud, and it is quite a deal. I have a LOT of data. Having offsite backups is mandatory in a backup plan. Fire, Floods, and Tornadoes will easily wipe out the external hard drive in the desk or filing cabinet. I've got six computers that will be sharing this account and it will take weeks to move a copy of all my data into the cloud. I'd like to see a Drobo application for CrashPlan...
Now as I have typed this, I've noticed the media upload option for Posterous. Images, audio, video, and docs... Wow, I'm going to have to try this out.
I have spent more time playing games at this GenCon than any other. My picture taking is waaaay behind. I am getting some video though. 5 hours of gaming a day takes a big chunk out of the time to stroll the exhibition floor. I played to Pathfinder Society events, they were quite good. The groups Seth and I played with were a lot of fun. I now have two first level Pathfinder Society characters, adopted from the pregenerated pile. I've been poking around with my Pathfinder account, getting them set up.
Tonight I'm meeting a few classmates from high school, and there is the Star Wars dance party at the Ugly Monkey. OR possibly finding the 4th Ed dungeon delve or Tower of Gygax game to play. I've got a new GenCon pastime, its called finding Hazelwood. I've already found Waldo and have video to prove it.
Thanks to the iPad app, GoodReader, my iPad is now my most important gaming accessory. No more lugging a backback full of books/adventures around. As a book reader, the iPad does a superior job of presenting full color books. With a little practice, I probably will be much more capable navigating PDF's than flipping paper pages.
The second pass went flawlessly. The Amahi interface is up and running. But I am out of time for configuring the server, since I am due elsewhere.
Too many package dependencies were failing. Going back to the beginning, after reading the instructions. SELinux was buggering up some things too. I'm sure it will go much more smoothly this time.
Well, I started right out with a non-standard installation. I loaded Fedora 12 in a virtual machine on my ESXi/PowerEdge-1900 Box, before reading all of the instructions. It turns out that you are supposed to add the Amahi repo during the installation of FC12. But my habit is to install FC12, then vmware-tools, then the other stuff. Now I've added the Amahi repo and letting yum run to its heart's content. *drum roll*
The torrent for Fedora 12 finished downloading last night. So today the project is to install Amahi on the virtual machine. After Waffle House, of course. This is going to be fun.
I really need to spend some time playing with the goodies in Windows Live. I know I'm a Google fan-boy, but Microsoft has caught my eye. Of course I'll have to find out how it runs on OS X and Linux.
