I'm surprised you don't see the humour in a 'pico dollar'.
I thought - this guy has DJB sized balls, I really want to use it. portsnap was great, this will be too.
And I don't even have a beard.
Colin has a platinum backed BSD pedigree. Tarsnap appears to be aiming at BSD minded users in the first instance ie people who mostly know what they are doing. Colin's grown tarsnap out of what he knows, the BSD aesthetic. What you know is a really good place to start.
But now, to grow tarnap beyond the BSD commandline pico-niche, something I really hope Colin does, because he's earned the success, it could / should adopt a Jungledisk like model. With an OS X desktop client, clearer pricing, and Apple level UX/marketing. And clients for home storage devices like Qnaps etc. And yes he should charge much more for that. Tarsnap does seem bizarrely, wonderfully cheap. And long may it remain that way... on the commandline.
I thought - this guy has DJB sized balls, I really want to use it. portsnap was great, this will be too.
And I don't even have a beard.
Colin has a platinum backed BSD pedigree. Tarsnap appears to be aiming at BSD minded users in the first instance ie people who mostly know what they are doing. Colin's grown tarsnap out of what he knows, the BSD aesthetic. What you know is a really good place to start.
But now, to grow tarnap beyond the BSD commandline pico-niche, something I really hope Colin does, because he's earned the success, it could / should adopt a Jungledisk like model. With an OS X desktop client, clearer pricing, and Apple level UX/marketing. And clients for home storage devices like Qnaps etc. And yes he should charge much more for that. Tarsnap does seem bizarrely, wonderfully cheap. And long may it remain that way... on the commandline.