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Throwback Thursday

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Since I’ve been journaling so very much I’ve got a lot of memories stored up in my Journal. Here’s a slice of my life for the past September 25th’s:

2003 – Refilled toner cartridges are all the rage, and I put a kibosh on them because they are a terrible idea. Working on other peoples computers proves to be a gory biological hazard at every turn. Grand Theft Auto 3 makes kids kill. Moonies make a surprise return and surprise everyone with their bigotry. Congress did something! They passed the FTC Do Not Call List.

2006 – Jerry Falwell referred to Hilary Clinton as worse than Lucifer. Tee Hee!

2007 – I got my first iPod Touch. What a long wonderful journey it has been with Apple, man, the memories. 🙂

2008 – I was enjoying a good ten-minutes hate on Microsoft and Java. At work I started interviewing S3’s.

2009 – I was drinking quite heavily to cope with my awful days. Drop.io was still around, and OIT was making it difficult to use, what a shocker. I started thinking about drugs like Xanax to help me cope with my difficult days. Work issues abound, failures left and right. Some sort of Jazz Ensemble at a local eatery tortured out some music.

2010 – Legend of the Guardians in the movies, enjoyed it quite a lot. Lots of noisy twitter noise.

2011 – SyFy asked what shows we liked, all the ones they cancelled. LOL.

2012 – Resistance using the Help Desk Ticketing System shows up. Search for S3 internally falls flat on it’s face, not really surprised. Love for Waze, enjoying social navigation. Closet hanger in Hobbiton failed, I fixed it, after a while of battling with it.

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Google Drive Failure

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Google Drive is a failure.

Google Drive was released yesterday, and I clicked the button on the website letting Google know I was interested in their product. I received an email late last night informing me that my Google Drive was ready. This morning, on a lark really, I went to the Google Drive website and clicked on the download link for the sync application to add to my work iMac. I downloaded the DMG fie without a problem and opened it up. I copied the Google Drive app to my Applications folder, like you are supposed to with Macintosh, and then I sat back and marveled at it. Google Drive, finally.

I’ve been a loyal Dropbox customer for years and back in January I sprang for the $100 a year expansion of my Dropbox up to 50GB. Everything I use connects to my Dropbox via the Dropbox API and just for the record, I am totally in-love with Dropbox. There is no reason for me to leave them as a customer. But even if you are loyal, it doesn’t mean you can’t explore. I have a professional account with Box.com through my work, and we arranged that after drop.io was consumed by the wraiths at Facebook. I have a personal Box.net account with 50GB but I don’t use it because Box only allows sync with paid accounts, so it’s not worth my while. Google Drive was just along these lines, just another option to look into.

So I started Google Drive on my iMac and I was asked to authenticate, something I expected. Then nothing. I started the app again and nothing. I opened up the Console app and here is what I found:

4/25/12 7:17:44 AM Google Drive[22481] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x2e2ba80 of class OC_PythonString autoreleased with no pool in place – just leaking

4/25/12 7:17:44 AM Google Drive[22481] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x2e37440 of class OC_PythonString autoreleased with no pool in place – just leaking

4/25/12 7:17:44 AM Google Drive[22481] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x2e332f0 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place – just leaking

4/25/12 7:17:44 AM Google Drive[22481] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x2e32600 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place – just leaking

4/25/12 7:17:45 AM [0x0–0x221c21a].com.google.GoogleDrive[22481] 2012–04–25 07:17:45.119 Google Drive Icon Helper[22488:903] Inject result: 0

So, it’s broken. This isn’t the first time a new app was built that failed horribly on my iMac. If anyone cares, and perhaps if anyone from Google is reading, this is a standard 2009–2010 iMac running Mac OSX 10.6.8. The only thing different about this particular Mac is that the account has it’s home on an AFP-connected OD-domain’ed Apple xServer. A network home. This causes headaches for Adobe Acrobat Reader so it’s probably the reason why Google Drive collapses on startup.

Since I can’t run the application, and since it wasn’t designed elegantly to take into account those people who have network-based computers like mine – unlike Box.com’s sync app or Dropboxes sync app, I can only state that Google Drive is not ready for prime time. Google Drive is not ready to compete in the marketplace and Google has to go back to the drawing board and try again.