Since then, I’ve applied to positions for an internship at school and finished my semester. Went through a bunch of interviews and finally accepted a position at ATI (i.e. AMD) which is awesome! I’m not really sure yet if I’m allowed to blog about the things I’ll be working on there but I’ll find out. Would be cool to keep track of the progress I make while there for the next 16 months. Along with that, I’ve bought myself a car to get to and from work – FREEDOM!

Elsewhere in my tech-space, I’ve begun familiarizing myself with the ASP.NET framework (in C#) and MsSQL as the project I’m working on at AMD seems to require such. I actually ended up coding a test project for an interview for another company using the framework/database and posted the project (more info below). It’s my first dive into ASP and far from the proper way of doing things, but I’ve already learned quite a bit since then so I think I’m on a good course.

I also won 2nd place in the International Student Design Competition (iSDC 2010) for my group project in CSC318! The conference is being held in Germany and our projects will be presented there soon Unfortunately, no one in our group will be able to attend but we’re going to try to get our poster printed out for display there. We’ll probably be listed on the iSDC website too once that’s done. Look for the Grocery Garden project by The Crew

Finally, I also got myself hardeepsingh.ca because well, why not? It just points to the same host as theootz.com though.

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Anyways, long story short – un-installing NOD32 and installing Microsoft Security Essentials (which is more than good enough anyways) seems to let me sync things. Jungle Disk is still giving odd errors but I’ll see if I can work through them.

Not ready to ditch Dropbox yet — but it does keep reminding me I’m getting close to running out of space :/

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Problem with dropbox’s paid service however, was that I was using only 2gb. It seemed like overkill to upgrade to a 50gb account for $10/month. I then remembered from a while back when I was first looking into cloud backup/sync software of one called Jungle Disk. It sounded great – uses Amazon S2 (as does dropbox) but with an open source client that gave you far more controla. Only reason I went with dropbox was because it was free and suited my needs at the time. So, it was time to give Jungle Disk another shot.

The sign up, payment and install processes went without a hitch. I decided to go with the “Jungle Disk Desktop” version, and hey turned out that with the base monthly fee they decided to include 5gb storage too – great! Payment was processed instantly and away I went!

On installing the program, it presents you with a wizard to help you set up your first ‘drive’. I figured I’d just enable all options and go from there – whether that’s a good thing or not I don’t know. To begin with, I wanted to sync my “My Dropbox” folder and if all goes well, I’d start with other folders too maybe – who knows? Yea, never got that far though. I set it to my drop box folder and let it sync over night. Waking up in the morning and expecting it to be complete I instead see several errors complaining it wasn’t able to upload one file or another and failed. It didn’t just skip the file (which from what I can tell, it’s supposed to!) but kept trying that same file over and over again until it finally gave up. So I figured, yea sure first time with the software – maybe it’s conflicting with dropbox already running in the background? So I gave that a close, and tried again. It got to the same file and stopped. No errors this time though (I was only able to check because of the logs I turned on from curiosity). Made changes to files? NEVER updated. I tried viewing what was saved on my disk via the virtual network drive – it only got bits of 2 main folders from about a dozen. Horrible!

Essentially, I’ve spent the last two days fighting with a horrible piece of software. It’s been constantly crashing on me whenever I try to make changes to configuration. And I’ve been making config changes trying to get it to sync successfully, if only just once! But every time it starts syncing, it gets to the same files and goes into an endless loop. Click cancel on the upload for that file? And it crashes! One of the files it was hanging up on was insignificant, so I decided to delete it but sure enough it finds another file to hang on.

I got frustrated to the point where I’ve decided to delete the virtual disk and try starting again. See where that leads me. If it -still- fails then I’ll contact support and see if the money I’m paying is worth it at all. If not, then I guess I’ll find something else. I’ve recently learned of another service called Mozy that seems to offer unlimited backup for around the same price as Jungle Disk’s base price but unlimited hosting of anything always makes me weary – more research would definitely be required. I’ve also been toying around with using Microsoft Mesh but the software is still a bit sluggish and doesn’t always sync properly. It also has no revision history which I’ve found can be VERY helpful!

Anyone else have any experience with Jungle Disk or other online backup/sync solutions? Any recommendations?

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