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nickname started following the question "Was sind gültige Mail-Adressen?" in Wuala.

nickname replied on August 17, 2008 23:04 to the question "file integration dont work XPSP3" in Wuala:

works for me. for many months. never had any trouble regarding sp3. no difference to sp2 or former servicepacks on winxp.

nickname replied on August 17, 2008 17:37 to the problem "Upload macht I-Net-Verbindung zu" in Wuala:

ich habe rein garkeine probleme mit wuala und ich habe sogar paar pots und isdn schmalband nodes mit wuala. ich hatte sogar mal gprs und umts fuer wuala getestet. ist zwar alles zwecklos als storagenode aber zum wuala browsen reichts wenn auch langsam.

habe aber keinerlei aussetzer, noch lags oder abbrueche. dass wuala einen gewissen grundsatz an bandbreite braucht ist keine frage, aber wenn man ordentliche professionelle router einsetzt dann ist das kein thema.

nickname replied on August 17, 2008 17:32 to the question "Speicher tauschen limit entfernen ?" in Wuala:

problem with increasing storage space is also that there will maybe unbalanced parts of the wuala network regarding storagewise and if such huge storage-nodes go offline it could harm the network maybe more than we might imagine.

its probably best if a lot of storagenodes with fairly the same size of active storage could take part in the wuala network and be active.

imagine such huge nodes storing important fragments and multi terabyte of storagenodes going offline. they take a lot of valuable storage fragments with them if they are not reliable.

its probably a big problem to rate the quality of participating storage nodes and to balance the chunk distribution and redundancy evenly onto many storage nodes rather a few huge monster-nodes.

storage space will likely go up if more and more people are able to provide 100+gigs, but i guess the bulk number of users dont have 100+gigs of space to offer permanently for wuala trade-space these days.

the number will increase over the years i guess and can safely be increased over time. but 100gig is already a pretty big number.

i could also provide much more space to trade but as i have said its probably more dangerous to the wuala network than useful at the moment.

cheers.

nickname replied on August 17, 2008 17:27 to the problem "DOS-Attacken durch Wuala" in Wuala:

eure router sind muellrouter. das problem wurde schon oft diskutiert. besorgt euch ordentliche hardware und gut ist.

das peer to peer problem mittels udp paketen und schlechte vertraeglichkeit seitens billigster ramsch hardware bei den breitbandprovidern und ihren ausgeliefterten trash-routern die sie ihren kunden unterjubeln ist so alt wie es edonkey am softwaremarkt gab und sogar noch aelter.

lest entsprechende jahrealte diskussionen im netz und bildet euch weiter. das hat wenig mit wuala zu tun sondern dass provider schrotthardware verkloppen.

es gibt bereits viele kommentare dazu.
http://getsatisfaction.com/wuala/topi...

dos-attacken. lol.....

nickname replied on August 17, 2008 17:23 to the problem "Upload macht I-Net-Verbindung zu" in Wuala:

das hat nicht immer was mit wuala zu tun sondern mit dem verwendeten udp protokoll vieler applikationen, so auch wuala die auf peer-to-peer basieren.

udp senden "blind" bulk-daten raus ohne auf antwortpakete warten zu muessen, und oft viele kleine pakete.

viele muell-router, soho-geraete und consumer-trash den provider heute auf xdsl breitbandleitungen verkloppen koennen oft nicht gut und sauber mit udp paketen umgehen. erst recht nicht wenns viele und kleine pakete sind.

da ist dann die leitung schon scheinbar bei viel geringeren bandbreiten dicht als das was man z.b. bei vdsl oder sonstwasfuer bandbreiten hat.

das ist natuerlich quatsch und nur auf die muell-firmware, hardware oder software der eingesetzten betriebssysteme, router und provider zurueckzufuehren.

da fuehrt kein weg daran vorbei sich auf ordentliche hardware zu verlassen. natuerlich sollte der provider auch nicht nur muell im eigenen netz benutzen aber das ist viel seltener das problem.

es kommt nicht immer nur auf die bandbreite an sondern sehr oft auf die forwarding rate, sprich pakete pro sekunde und auch noch in abhaengigkeit der paketgroesse und paketart.

tcp/ip ist eben viel komplexer als nur reine bandbreite.

wuala macht da rein garnichts falsch denn es laesst nicht mehr daten (bandbreitenmaessig) ins netz oder vom netz als man einstellt.

nickname replied on August 15, 2008 16:46 to the question "Muss Wartung oft laufen?" in Wuala:

you have to be online at least 17% of system uptime since first install/run of wuala on your system. so that answers the question pretty well as the lower margin and threshold for allowing your wuala client becoming a supporting part of the wuala network.

if you cant stay online long enough and contribute long enough into the network, your files wont be spread well and your files wont have redundancy.

wuala is a trading application. local storage for safer distributed storage. so either you can trade or you cant.

other than that you only leech off the network. thats fine for the network, but not fine for your own files if you want them to be saved into the wuala grid.

nuffsaid.

nickname replied on August 15, 2008 15:21 to the question "Muss Wartung oft laufen?" in Wuala:

lower your upload speed and live with the fact. you cant have the cake and eat it too.

doh.

nickname replied on August 15, 2008 13:32 to the question "Where can I download Wuala?" in Wuala:

you see it on the webpage if you click fast enought before the java applet has properly started of if you disable java the extra link will be shown which takes you to the additional standalone installer executable files.

but i agree that wuala should show them normally on their website as well.

the proper page to get the standalone executables is:
http://wua.la/en/launch/

nickname replied on August 14, 2008 19:25 to the problem "Unexpected error after starting Wuala_de.exe" in Wuala:

ever tried restarting it. reloading the current installer. or using the java applet from the web-site (open beta).

nickname replied on August 14, 2008 19:21 to the question "Wuala - Daten über Browser uploaden" in Wuala:

why does it matter if people know that you have run/started wuala? is it really that what you are afraid about?

people will never be able to tell what you have been putting into wuala or getting out of it (as long as you delete the unencrypted original files on the local system ofcourse).

everything that goes into wuala is crypted. also the cached files, the part-files, the chunk-files, metadata everything.

your password is the only thing that will allow others to look into your wuala account. everything else is the public/world area only.

but still, all the files that wuala works with (data storate files) are encrypted. no matter if world/public area or not. there are no normal filenames or normal files regarding datastorage. everything has very long cryptic hash-like filenames and is split up into a lot of smaller part-file and everything is encrypted.

nobody can tell whats inside those files.

as for running wuala, if you running it from a webbrowser (java applet as of today, august 14th, 2008) people will ofcourse see your webbrowser cache files, url/history, favourites or see in proxies (corporate environment, internetserviceprovider) that you have been visiting the wuala website and downloaded the wuala webstarter (jar files and so on....)

you cant really hide the fact that you have been using wuala unless you work in a completely encrypted environment, maybe such as working with truecrypt or in a virtualized crypted operating system and so on....

good luck with paranoidea ;)

nickname replied on August 14, 2008 17:30 to the question "Wuala - Daten über Browser uploaden" in Wuala:

english dude:

everything you load into the wuala application (and thus wuala network) becomes encrypted. so all the files that stay on your physical machine regarding wuala are crypted and people cant tell what kind of files you have pushed into wuala.

ofcourse you need to delete/erase/securely your original files that were the original source of your upload process into wuala too.

its nothing new though. it has been like this since the first day of wuala.

wonder why you keep asking this.

nickname asked a question in Wuala on August 14, 2008 11:16:

where is the public open beta?

hi,

i am still runnight the early alpha installers which installed itself in my windows in programs\caleido\wuala\

when i look in the about dialogbox, there seems to be some new update, but on restarting wuala it never updates itself.

whats wrong with the open beta? has it been canceled for today? is it delayed? will the old alpha builds of wuala update themselves to the new open beta?

nickname replied on August 14, 2008 09:14 to the discussion "Will unicode filenames be supported in the final release of wuala?" in Wuala:

i always follow the rule of ascii 7bit. no fancy characters of no sort whatsoever at all.

this is the only method that always works.

year 2008 and the it industry still incapable of interoperability and internationalization.

sad but true. this is ofcourse not only the problem of caleido/wuala but the it industry in general.

they all suck.

nickname replied on August 13, 2008 10:48 to the discussion "Will unicode filenames be supported in the final release of wuala?" in Wuala:

eh? i thought they were already supported.

there are a lot of problems with drag/drop, fileintegration and other external 3rdparty modules and parts of operatingsystems, apps and viewers when it comes to handing over the filename information and such.

that might be the reason why you ask the question.

nickname replied on August 12, 2008 16:09 to the question "ich suche eine einladung für wuala alpha xuana@gmx.net" in Wuala:

ever tried a searchengine?

there are a bazillion invitation codes out there.
check the googletechtalk vid about wuala. the codes are in the comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xKZ4K...

doh.

nickname started following the question "Große Gruppen in Wuala machen Probleme !!!" in Wuala.

nickname replied on August 07, 2008 11:07 to the question "Große Gruppen in Wuala machen Probleme !!!" in Wuala:

i have made somewhat similar experiences in general wuala world navigation area.

for example when i navigate into the public wuala group, where there are the releasenotes and such, the whole wuala gui (windows xp) flickers like hell and seems to redraw the gui contents, icons and elements like a "million" times all over or tries to arrange the window/gui contents and so on...

well it flickers really a lot. there are quite a number of other places where the wuala gui flickers a lot til it is again clickable and usable....

maybe these things are related. please take a look into this behaviour of the wuala gui and the corresponding java code.

thanks.

nickname replied on August 05, 2008 13:46 to the problem "Using drag and drop to create attached images in Thunderbird" in Wuala:

attached image? thats only in this specific case. its attached file in general.
you can attach stuff to your thunderbird when you are using the filesystemintegration (normal file browsing of your operating system) and not the wuala gui.

so either browse on your windows drive letter that wuala creates, the windows unc-path in your favourite file/folder-manager or explorer or browse around the filesystem on your un*x and mac*s systems and drag the shit from there.

plain simple.

nickname replied on August 05, 2008 10:45 to the problem "Wuala Freeze (double click simple folder) on XP Home SP3" in Wuala:

tomorrow or tuesday? its tuesday here at my place and tomorrow is wednesday. so today or tomorrow or when is the update to be published?

confusing statements in here.