phunel
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Comment · 4 years ago
Appreciate the suggestion. Will give them a look too.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thank you. Found the udemy courses today too and I think this is ultimately what we'll do. Basically every other vendor's videos are some weird paw patrol/person of interest hybrid. The company pricing for udemy is strange though - as far as I can tell they won't let you purchase a bunch of seats for one course, they insist on a subscription to their catalog - so will be tedious to setup an account for each person but that's fine.
Comment · 13 years ago
I understand the main complaint against BT Sync is that it's not open source. That said, is it possible for anyone speak to its security? I've been testing the desktop client for some time and it seems one of the most promising applications I've used in awhile - even at alpha status.
Would like to recommend this to peers I work with as a potential collaboration tool for projects that require security.
Next up, BT Mail? Would love to see that.
Comment · 13 years ago
Excited to try the iOS implementation. Is a desktop client (OSX, Linux, etc) for RedPhone feasible? I understand (I think) that RedPhone doesn't use usernames, but instead uses your phone number as the identifier - but I'm curious if that's a structural restriction at this point. Every time the issue of secure communications comes up the issue of what program to use comes up as well. There aren't a lot of good options at this point. Jitsi seems to be the best people can suggest.
Comment · 13 years ago
I agree, Ross's tutorial is brilliant. Unfortunately it stops right before deployment. For a new developer, or someone who is tech savvy, but not a programmer - deployment can be a maze. I installed Mezzanine on a VPS, something I'm sure is fairly common - so the localhost wasn't available - so that complicated things a bit. Got mod_wsgi working with apache, but not with Mezzanine. Anyway, not to turn this into a support query or anything - but I think deployment is tricky. Ross ended up shooting over some code snippets and I was very grateful for them, but would love to see deployment covered in the same way he did the other parts of the tutorial if there are any takers.
Comment · 14 years ago
And that the landlord admits to coming into your house daily to read through all your mail and documents in order to sell you stuff. And then follows you around town to catalog what you buy, what videos you watch, who are your friends, what are they doing, and what information you're looking for, among other things because, you know, this will all make it a better experience for you.
Comment · 15 years ago
I'm far less worried about government intrusion than I am generally of corporate intrusion. The relationship, as it stands, consists of me willingly giving all my private communications to a third party I have no standing with. I'm questioning my own behavior in that equation much more than any scenario where a government entity serves and act on a warrant. I don't ever expect to be in that position, nor have I, but I have been in the position where my commercial and private correspondents has been violated by companies I am in competition with and employees who I no longer work with. Good luck with the lawsuit, the damage has been done in those situations.
Comment · 15 years ago
Good idea on the backup MX.
I do have Exim4 setup on a Linode for outgoing status updates (mainly Fail2Ban), but have yet to use it in lieu of Gmail/Google Apps.
As mentioned previously I'm a bit nervous about leaving my mail on a third party box - though Linode has been nothing but a reliable service to date.
Comment · 15 years ago
True, but Google Apps tends to follow Gmail's lead, albeit at a delayed pace.
I agree that Google Apps is the best of the bunch, and much easier to manage than your own server - but the privacy concerns have just nagged at me for years. I keep getting back to the core issue: is giving this (or any) company the sum of all my written communications in exchange for ease of use worth it? It's something I'm still struggling with.
Comment · 15 years ago
Thank you. This seems like a fair tradeoff. In my case I imagine I'd just use my VPS as the relay, rather than my ISP. Just so I understand clearly, incoming mail will not be an issue and can be sent directly to your personal box, but relay the outgoing via your established ISP/VPS/etc?
Comment · 15 years ago
I've been struggling with the tradeoffs in keeping Google as my email (among other things) provider. I own a few VPS's and have plenty of hardware that could serve as a private server. What has kept me from hosting my email up to this point is the fear of being inadvertently blacklisted by something like Spamhaus, downtime from Comcast (my ISP) making service intermittent, and generally having the email server management take over my life. In short, the same issues that affect many here by evidence of the recent chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions (http://jpf.github.com/domain-profiler/ycombinator.html?2011).
I could host my own email on my VPS, but going through the trouble of that - it seems to make sense to just go ahead and host on a box I fully control.
To this point I admit I have had no issues with gmail or Google apps, both of which I use. But the landscape seems to be changing and I'm curious if anyone is considering migrating to their own hardware and what tools, etc. they are employing to make that process easily manageable as well as effective. I use email for sensitive business discussions, but the security required is tempered by the obvious fact that if the email doesn't get there, it's less than worthless.
I do have PGP setup, and I thought that this would be a good tradeoff while using a third party provider - but it is nearly impossible to keep partners and clients active in using it, if they use it at all.
The concept of the Freedombox (freedomboxfoundation.org) seems interesting, but academic at this point.
Anyone running their personal email servers care to comment on the overhead? Would a simple Postfix, Dovecot, Roundcube install with Spamassassin suffice? What are the pitfalls? Not worth the tradeoff of using Google Apps?
I'm thinking about keeping my websites on a VPS and using a MX record to point to a private, dedicated email server I keep in my house or other private property. Anyone running a similar setup?
Comment · 15 years ago
I wouldn't get too excited. Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of the Federal government actually paying out this incentive? I say this because I have medical professionals in my own family, and at least from their experience and from every physician they have spoken to - the incentive is promised again and again, but never materializes despite physicians and medical professionals jumping through the myriad hoops. Like many government incentives, it looks great on paper - but actually getting the thing is entirely different story.
Comment · 15 years ago
Wouldn't count on it:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/2011-07-21-kim-kar...