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nickname replied on April 21, 2009 09:41 to the problem "Wuala does not start in Vista 32" in Wuala:

thats why java applet suck. download the standalone installer for your os manually and start/run it from outside the browser and not from within.

rule of thumb #1:
computers and sofware are buggy

http://www.wuala.com/en/download/

make sure your system has java, but dont click the validation (skip #1), and download the stuff right at step #2.

java virtual machine that is.
you will most likely want to get this jvm:
download java crap here

you will eventually probably select "windows" and multilanguage (as you have vista32) and then you will most likely want to get the complete installer named:

"jre-6u13-windows-i586-p.exe" 15megs...

down that, inst that, run the downloaded wuala.exe (or from inside the wuala.exe.zip) afterwards.

A comment on the question "File changes" in Wuala:

would be greate if the company could elaborate further on this with some specs, docu or such. what is the meaning if small, are there any formula for the behaviour, or dependance of filetypes (ascii/textonly, binary files and so on). – nickname, on April 14, 2009 10:05

A comment on the problem "wuala behauptet dateien waeren lokal gespeichert; sind sie aber nicht" in Wuala:

thats only a pointer into your local wuala database and its subfiles ofcourse. everything in the wuala storage gets cryted. so meaning its in the local database and then the path is only the first part of the path into your wuala database local path on your real local filesystem. then follows the hash which identifies the file.

its not literally a file on your disk. its just a pointer/hash inside your databasefiles i guess.

that file is probably rather somewhere in your fragments2 folder and in those 100megs in size database files or will be there soon.

cheers – nickname, on April 14, 2009 10:02

nickname started following the question "hash in api-metadata" in Wuala.

nickname replied on April 13, 2009 21:24 to the question "File changes" in Wuala:

chopping up doesnt matter. a file is the smallest element that gets hashed. the chops get distributed onto several nodes and probably have hashes themselves. but they are useless on their own.

get over it dude. a file is the smallest element.

the bigger your one file is, the more traffic and stuff needs to be re-uploaded, redownloaded and exchanged when you update that file.

one bit is changed in the file, the file gets a new hash. thats how hashin on filelevel works. other than tat the hash algorithm would be crap.

try to deal with it. or be part of the wuala team and change how the stuff works if you can.

nickname replied on April 13, 2009 21:14 to the problem "unicode support on weblink" in Wuala:

there is an example for example from the current top weekly images, some arabic file/filename:

it gets encoded as follows in my browsers (ffx) when i copy the link out of the wuala app.

arab-file-link-goes-here

this is standard behaviour for ages now on decent operating systems with decent webbrowsers.

there are many standards (w3c and rfcs) involved. look up the techdata if your interested.

if your os/system doesnt generate those links you need to take a look at your webbrowser and your java virtual machine (which runs the wuala app) to make sure they behave propery and use the stablished standards.

doh.

nickname replied on April 13, 2009 21:03 to the question "File changes" in Wuala:

this is sooooo old..... did you ever read through the wuala docs, these forums here and check other questions before putting up your own?

NOT!

wuala is file-level based. thats the smallest information to be stored in the wuala cloud and networks. file change not matter how tiny, means complete object=file will be ex-changed in the wuala cloud.

there is no way around it. wuala works on file level.

try harder next time before posting up oldstuff.

A comment on the question "Which routing algorithm does Wuala use?" in Wuala:

exactly. wonder what could be misunderstood about the word "routing". pascal.herbert you know what it means? please look it up on wikipedia if not :D – nickname, on April 13, 2009 17:42

nickname replied on April 13, 2009 17:41 to the problem "unicode support on weblink" in Wuala:

that shouldnt be a problem as there is some international convention about how to code special chars.... that should give you those %12 encoded characters in urls.... its been long standard on the web.... post an example inside wuala where you seem to suffer this problem. some public, group, filename or whatever else

A comment on the question "Does Local Cache sync when I move files on my hard drive?" in Wuala:

he might mean the cache/localstorage folder that wuala uses on the physical disk?

you need to move that stuff not from outside wuala using explorer, totalcommander or other filetools or commandline, but from inside wuala in the options. specifiy a new directory/path there and stuff will get moved........ – nickname, on April 10, 2009 15:17

nickname marked one of ermonnezza's replies in Wuala as useful. ermonnezza replied to the idea "wuala gets merged with lacie - oh noes".

nickname replied on April 08, 2009 19:07 to the question "Wuala-Symbol in Schnellstartleiste verschwunden" in Wuala:

do you really mean quickstart? you can add it there yourself. or maybe you mean the traybar / icon notification area.... thats something completely different.

there have been numerous requests for wuala being able to re-register its icon in the tray area, as explorer.exe sometimes goes mad and doesnt create all the icons of apps there, especially during high load on reboot, autologin scenarios into windows desktops and many more.

also that wuala can be closed properly from the main gui itself and not just the tray icon, which is impossible to shut down properly and gracefully when the tray icon of wuala is missing, as the tray icon is the only place in wuala where you can completely shut down and exit the wuala application. (rightclick exit...)

this sucks. :(

nickname started following the question "Wuala-Symbol in Schnellstartleiste verschwunden" in Wuala.

A comment on the question "Will the 100GB sharing limit be raised?" in Wuala:

sharing even the bare minimum of traffic still brings redundancy to chunks and stored data. which is the basic foundation and reason for the wuala network. reliable backup space distributed onto many shoulders. ofcourse the network might be in trouble if everybody shared like 1bits/year or stuff, but then ofcourse wuala would not count it as being online any more. there are probably some checks and reports back into the cloud and measurements to verify if a node is supposed to be counted as alive or not and so forth. the exact details are buried within the wuala sourcecode. opensource anyone?

and then ofcourse, did you ever read through their papers at their founding university. havelaar system and whatever else they have published. they spoke about rating the participating nodes for quality and so forth right from the beginning of the wuala project. so when other participating nodes rate your own node as bad, misbehaving, malicious, freeloader et al. then your credits and storage earning might get weight by a smaller factor and thus giving you less storage earnings. look up the details and the theoretical papers and publications of the caleido and wuala people. http://www.wuala.com/en/learn/technology – nickname, on April 08, 2009 14:28

A comment on the question "Will the 100GB sharing limit be raised?" in Wuala:

its primarily a function of online persistency, aka online time. i testdrove wuala with narrowband, and it was generating pretty much the same storage at trading as broadband lines.

in your settings there is only two terms multiplied with each other. the one is "tade up to X gb local storage", and the other is the "avarage online time".

ofcourse the wuala network might consider your wuala node as not online if you limit communication too much by cheating, traffic shaping or by narrowband too much, eventually lowering your online time again and not qualifying for trading at all.

but in general its onlinetime and local trading storage that counts. – nickname, on April 08, 2009 00:29

nickname replied on April 06, 2009 09:12 to the idea "Priority to other LAN users over Wuala server or WAN Cloud ?" in Wuala:

azureus/vuze has lan awareness and so do many other oldschool classical p2p apps. torrenting right away...

A comment on the problem "Dateien mit Umlaut in der Bezeichnung nicht zugreifbar via Geheimlink" in Wuala:

i wasnt just specifically talking about wuala trouble. my rant was about interoperability, charsets, internationalisation and all that sort of crap in general. as a matter of fact the whole industry is fucked up regarding these kind of problems. and the only true way to avoid and steer clear is to not use anything outside the ascii-7bit scope.

just look at all those emails on mailinglists, look at the usenet with the bazillion misbehaving mail- and usenetclients, look how subject lines get scrambled, look about filenaming conventions and charset problems on mounted samba shares, ntfs drives and a billion more examples. its absolutely standard that all this type of shit is a huge pain in the ass. and now come back here again and tell me about your perfect world out there, where stuff works "plug and play" and mankind is peaceful and all good.

get real. – nickname, on March 26, 2009 21:42

nickname replied on March 26, 2009 21:35 to the idea "Business Version" in Wuala:

there were lots of ideas about business features and versions. better go and find and study those bugreports, featurequests and all that documents and files inside the caleido groups.

nickname replied on March 25, 2009 17:10 to the problem "Dateien mit Umlaut in der Bezeichnung nicht zugreifbar via Geheimlink" in Wuala:

thats why you should never bee using anything else except asii-7bit as characters for file and foldernames only.

the it industry is still fucked and cant handle stuff properly these days. and its 2009 by now, we still cant work it out properly and interoperability is a pure hell. so dont handle codes and charsets from beyond the 1960s, after all ascii began back then.

everything else is still a huge experiment. thats why you should reconsider everything thats outside that 7bit scope.

A comment on the question "http://www.lacie.com/de/products/product.htm?pid=11136" in Wuala:

its maybe simple nas as a bazillion others, running some embedded or realtime linux maybe with a webserver/webinterface or some kind of services which then give local loopback access to some storage mountpoint which then could be a wuala target or something similar. upnp server would be a broadband residential/consumer gateway or the like, or this lacie linux server or similar. – nickname, on March 24, 2009 01:14