Find a provider that will let you run what you want. They are out there if you look.
I ditched the big 2 providers (Rogers, Bell) here in Toronto 7 years ago, and haven't looked back.
I get a static IP, no port restrictions, and excellent tech support when I need it... the kind where you get to talk to a human being who is knowledgable and will call you back.
I am in a similar situation... but over the years, I find I am doing less "server" things at home and much prefer to outsource basic functionality like email.
I used to run my own in house email, web sites, etc... but now use google apps for my domain for most of that.
I have found a simple QNAP NAS device serves my file sharing (NFS, etc...) needs quite well, and it draws much less power than a full fledged server.
VMWare or some other virtual machine environment and a lightweight linux distro like Crux serves my needs very well when I need to do some shell scripting or other activities for which a linux environment is necessary.
In short, over the years as I have used my home environment as a learning and testing environment, I have found the need to run a true server environment has lessened, allowing me more time to focus on other things.
I used to be a sysadmin at work... and found that I didn't want to be one at home as well!
I use a pair of 1 TB drives on a QNAP NAS in a RAID-1 mirrored config. For home use. I backup all kinds of important data to the network share, and yes, I feel pretty safe that my data is protected.
I actually lost a drive, and sure enough, once the replacement was obtained, everything went back to it's mirrored normal operation.
I used to backup to tape, but these days, why bother? With a decent NAS, you cover the bases, and it's a lot easier to deal with -- especially for a home user.
I'm IT manager for a small software company that has its roots in pure Unix/Linux development.
Yet, we run XP, Active Directory, Exchange, and the rest of it. Why? Because although our engineering team is extremely capable of handling Linux desktops and everything that goes with it, our executive team is not, and as a one man IT shop, I don't have the time or resources to handhold them through that transition.
Nobody has ever accused me of being a windows fan boy -- in fact I have quite the opposite reputation, but sometimes windows/AD/Exchange is the path of least resistance.
When your average CEO or VP of Marketing can handle a Linux desktop, then and only then is it feasible for us to switch.
And, I believe the Creative Zen Nano does not have the built-in USB connector, but requires a USB 2.0 cable. At least the MuVo N200 (which is what became the Nano) does.
Last I checked, space was only 60 miles away. You could drive there in about an hour.:-) Not sure how far to a geostationary orbit, but it's not gonna be tens of thousands of miles.
I miss the original palm too... I had a Palm Pilot Professional which hit the sweet spot. It did all the PIM stuff and did it well.
Of course, my Blackberry 7280 now does it all with the addition of email and a cellphone, so I guess there's really not much to miss after all.
Oh yeah, I *never* wanted to balance my checkbook, do work processing, or watch movies on my PDA, so my Blackberry just about gets it right in the way that the original Palms did.
If the point of session information is to, say, display a customized screen to someone based on who they are, there's not a lot of room for caching proxies and the like anyway, which do much better for the anonymous "everybody gets the same page" kind of situation.
Further, if the caching proxies respected the "no-cache" headers (hello AOL), it would be less of an issue.
Um.... not really. The Blackberry hits a very nice demographic of users who just want to do basic PDA + email functionality. Same sweet spot (minus the email) that the original Palm devices hit. I don't want to balance my checkbook, listen to MP3s, watch videos, or have a mobile gaming console on my Blackberry. I want to stay in touch and manage my life.
It does that excellently.
Plus, the keyboard on the Treo is just simply awful compared to the Blackberry. The Clie keyboards were adequate, but nothing beats the BB keybaord.
Because Mac OS X is for the mainstream consumer, not the techie uber-geek who wants to tinker all day long to get just the right video drivers installed to play whatever-game-is-most-cool right now.
Don't get me wrong... I run Linux and my preferred distro is Crux (www.crux.nu) becuase I have ultimate control. I probably wouldn't recommend it for my wife/kids/mother-in-law/non-techie-friends/etc though.
Most people want things to "just plain work"... and that's where Apple gets it right.
Doesn't it make more sense to report the site to the service provider so it gets shut down?
Last one of these I encountered (an eBay phishing scheme) was hosted on Comcast's network. To Comcast's credit, the site was inaccessible within 2 hours of my reporting it, and I got a very prompt response by email to my report.
I realize you were being sarcastic, but consider:
from TFA:
In addition, the software giant said only a small number of programs were affected by the change: "The only applications that care deeply about the ability to send over raw sockets are enterprise security applications that use 'fingerprinting' techniques to characterise a host on the network based on its response to carefully crafted packets."
Consequently, the company has restricted access to raw sockets in desktop versions of its software, but not on servers.
Since the majority of windows users are not well-versed in good security practices and just want to get online, this is actually a Good Thing, since these folks really don't need access to the described functionality.
Those people that do will typically run a non-crippled OS, or one of the Windows server varieties.
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That's because with an android, you don't feel compelled to wave it about like a fashion accessory.
Find a provider that will let you run what you want. They are out there if you look.
I ditched the big 2 providers (Rogers, Bell) here in Toronto 7 years ago, and haven't looked back.
I get a static IP, no port restrictions, and excellent tech support when I need it... the kind where you get to talk to a human being who is knowledgable and will call you back.
I am in a similar situation... but over the years, I find I am doing less "server" things at home and much prefer to outsource basic functionality like email.
I used to run my own in house email, web sites, etc... but now use google apps for my domain for most of that.
I have found a simple QNAP NAS device serves my file sharing (NFS, etc...) needs quite well, and it draws much less power than a full fledged server.
VMWare or some other virtual machine environment and a lightweight linux distro like Crux serves my needs very well when I need to do some shell scripting or other activities for which a linux environment is necessary.
In short, over the years as I have used my home environment as a learning and testing environment, I have found the need to run a true server environment has lessened, allowing me more time to focus on other things.
I used to be a sysadmin at work... and found that I didn't want to be one at home as well!
I use a pair of 1 TB drives on a QNAP NAS in a RAID-1 mirrored config. For home use. I backup all kinds of important data to the network share, and yes, I feel pretty safe that my data is protected.
I actually lost a drive, and sure enough, once the replacement was obtained, everything went back to it's mirrored normal operation.
I used to backup to tape, but these days, why bother? With a decent NAS, you cover the bases, and it's a lot easier to deal with -- especially for a home user.
I'm IT manager for a small software company that has its roots in pure Unix/Linux development.
Yet, we run XP, Active Directory, Exchange, and the rest of it. Why? Because although our engineering team is extremely capable of handling Linux desktops and everything that goes with it, our executive team is not, and as a one man IT shop, I don't have the time or resources to handhold them through that transition.
Nobody has ever accused me of being a windows fan boy -- in fact I have quite the opposite reputation, but sometimes windows/AD/Exchange is the path of least resistance.
When your average CEO or VP of Marketing can handle a Linux desktop, then and only then is it feasible for us to switch.
I, for one, can't wait!
I like Enable Virtual Desktop. Once you configured, it's unobtrusive, fast, and does everything I need.
And, I believe the Creative Zen Nano does not have the built-in USB connector, but requires a USB 2.0 cable. At least the MuVo N200 (which is what became the Nano) does.
Well then, I stand corrected. :-)
Last I checked, space was only 60 miles away. You could drive there in about an hour. :-) Not sure how far to a geostationary orbit, but it's not gonna be tens of thousands of miles.
I miss the original palm too... I had a Palm Pilot Professional which hit the sweet spot. It did all the PIM stuff and did it well.
Of course, my Blackberry 7280 now does it all with the addition of email and a cellphone, so I guess there's really not much to miss after all.
Oh yeah, I *never* wanted to balance my checkbook, do work processing, or watch movies on my PDA, so my Blackberry just about gets it right in the way that the original Palms did.
Or windows 4-94 for that matter.
I use them to store firewall configurations for LiveCD firewall distros, like SentryCD.
... they really mean screenshots! When was the last time you saw a screenshot that was literally a digital photograph of someone's monitor? :-)
Ditto for OS/400. Ugh.
If the point of session information is to, say, display a customized screen to someone based on who they are, there's not a lot of room for caching proxies and the like anyway, which do much better for the anonymous "everybody gets the same page" kind of situation.
Further, if the caching proxies respected the "no-cache" headers (hello AOL), it would be less of an issue.
Whatever happened to storing basic session info in the url?
Um.... not really. The Blackberry hits a very nice demographic of users who just want to do basic PDA + email functionality. Same sweet spot (minus the email) that the original Palm devices hit. I don't want to balance my checkbook, listen to MP3s, watch videos, or have a mobile gaming console on my Blackberry. I want to stay in touch and manage my life.
It does that excellently.
Plus, the keyboard on the Treo is just simply awful compared to the Blackberry. The Clie keyboards were adequate, but nothing beats the BB keybaord.
More to the point.... better tell IBM that the simpler the solution, the cheaper it is to run.
That should put a kink in their global services based business model...
Simple, elegant designs = less $$$ required for consulting services.
Because Mac OS X is for the mainstream consumer, not the techie uber-geek who wants to tinker all day long to get just the right video drivers installed to play whatever-game-is-most-cool right now.
... and that's where Apple gets it right.
Don't get me wrong... I run Linux and my preferred distro is Crux (www.crux.nu) becuase I have ultimate control. I probably wouldn't recommend it for my wife/kids/mother-in-law/non-techie-friends/etc though.
Most people want things to "just plain work"
Doesn't mean we have to.
Sigh.
"You're" is a contraction meaning "you are," and "your" is a possessive pronoun.
Doesn't it make more sense to report the site to the service provider so it gets shut down?
Last one of these I encountered (an eBay phishing scheme) was hosted on Comcast's network. To Comcast's credit, the site was inaccessible within 2 hours of my reporting it, and I got a very prompt response by email to my report.
exactly.
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In addition, the software giant said only a small number of programs were affected by the change: "The only applications that care deeply about the ability to send over raw sockets are enterprise security applications that use 'fingerprinting' techniques to characterise a host on the network based on its response to carefully crafted packets."
Consequently, the company has restricted access to raw sockets in desktop versions of its software, but not on servers.
Since the majority of windows users are not well-versed in good security practices and just want to get online, this is actually a Good Thing, since these folks really don't need access to the described functionality. Those people that do will typically run a non-crippled OS, or one of the Windows server varieties.Outlook is available as a standalone app... no need to buy the whole suite.