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Tip: Fedora 14 and Dropbox

The current version of Dropbox does not behave nicely on Fedora 14 – the Dropbox update daemon attempts to execute code from stack. This is prohibited by SELinux (and rightly so).

There is a workaround (taken from the Dropbox Support forum):

/usr/bin/execstack -c ~/.dropbox-dist/_ctypes.so

Let’s hope that Dropbox releases a proper fix for this problem soon.

Dropbox Tip: Automatic Transmission

I’ve been using Dropbox for quite some time now. Their 2GB of free online storage is increasingly being used in new and innovative ways.

One of the first things I set up was 1Password Sync using Dropbox. But wait, there is more!

I use BitTorrent downloads, mainly for large DVD downloads (the CentOS 5.5 DVD’s are only available through BitTorrent). My Mac Mini is always on, and it runs the Transmission BitTorrent client. Before Dropbox, I had to log on to the Transmission Web interface and upload the .torrent file.

With Dropbox, there is a more elegant solution: “Automatic Transmission”.

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Dropbox Tip: 1Password Sync

I’m a great fan of both 1Password and Dropbox, so what’s better than combining the goodness of both?

If you have multiple computers running 1Password, you’ll love how easy it is to set up password syncing using Dropbox. The 1Password team recommends Dropbox over MobileMe or iDisk, so I decided to follow their lead.

As an extra feature, you’ll even get “1PasswordAnywhere”…