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Re:How does everybody backup? on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @12:02PM (#99326)
Jungledisk is great. Its easy to use, cheap and runs on Windows, Linux (includes GUI and CLI) and Mac. You can treat is as a network drive or setup automated backups. The protocol is open so you can use tools like S3 Firefox Organizer to retrieve your data outside of the Jungledisk front-end.

Another big plus is that you can run an unlimited number of instances across any number of machines after paying a one time fee of $25.

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Re:Ask YC: favorite books on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @01:01PM (#86342)
1984 (George Orwell)

Fountains of Paradise (Arthur C Clarke, Space Elevator SciFi)

Dune Series (Herbert)

Ender Series (Orson Scott Card)

2001 Series (Arthur C Clarke)

Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator on Thursday February 22, 2007 @06:07PM (#562)
I read reddit almost exclusively through their RSS feed. Its a critical function for any site... what site owner wouldn't want to broadcast to an Opt-In audience of passionate users?