At a previous job, I was downloading daily legal torrent data when IT flagged me. The IT admin, eager to catch me doing something wrong, burst into the room shouting with management in tow. I had to calmly explain the situation, as management assumed all torrenting was illegal and there had been previous legal issues with an intern pirating movies. Fortunately, other colleagues backed me up.
Hey, ages ago, as an intern, I have been flagged for BitTorrent downloads. As it turned out, I was downloading/sharing Ubuntu isos, so things didn't escalate too far, but it was a scary moment.
I left a Linux ISO (possibly Ubuntu) seeding on a lab computer at university, and forgot about it after I'd burned the DVD. You can see this was a while ago.
A month later an IT admin came to ask what I might be doing with port 6881. Once I remembered, we went to the tracker's website and saw "imperial.ac.uk" had the top position for seeding, by far.
Fortunately, it was the nice way — that university is one of the backbone nodes of the UK academic network, so the bandwidth use was pretty much irrelevant.
Customer here, from previous versions. Could you expand on the reasoning of not offering an upgrade price? Is it just to messy nowadays on the technical side, especially with the Mac App Store?
Will be upgrading in the future, congratulations on the launch!
There’s two main reasons. One is that this is the first paid update in 14 years. The second is that it’s just such a pain to do that on the App Store and I don’t want to have a two-tier system. I’ve tried to strike a balance on the price bearing this in mind.
The best option I could find was using Digital Ocean Managed Databases. The cheapest costs $15, but you can host multiple databases with good insights and backups. You can choose where you host it, and place it close to the region where youre Fly.io apps are, with low latency.
Only caveat is there isn't an easy way to automatically update the IPs whitelist of the database, to support the Fly builder and deployed app(s).
This change was more due to the iOS 7 flat redesign, than to what the author proposes.
A design trend, where it became fashionable to have a flat design supported by illustration/iconography, further away from skeumorphism, which photography was more close to.
