[wplug] domain question
Michael Semcheski
mhsemcheski at gmail.com
Sun Jul 20 13:00:58 EDT 2008
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Patrick Wagstrom <patrick at wagstrom.net> wrote:
> You still haven't answered my question of why I would I ever need to do
> this if the system just works? I understand that when something isn't
> working properly, you'd need to do that. For example, if you had a
> mis-tweaked TCP/IP stack or mail server that blew up when transferring
> large attachments.
OK, here are two pretty easy to understand use cases where its real
useful to have a box you can ssh to:
1) You want to gpg-encrypt or decrypt something, and you are on a
foreign computer.
2) You have a source control repository that you want to be accessible
from different computers, without relying on a third party like source
forge.
Nothing to do with tweaking the server. You don't need root access.
But its still very handy.
> When technology just works, the way it is supposed to, there isn't a need
> go and compile your own programs or even write a shell script. It's
> supposed to just work.
When technology just works, it allows me to create better
technologies. Firing up vi (or vim) is part of that.
> For me, and for many other people, Google Apps just works. And thus far,
> you haven't provided a reason why such a feature would be handy on a mail,
> calendar, or chat server.
If you're wary of third parties snooping all of your mail...
If you strive to provide better support to family / friends /
associates / customers than Google does... (Find me the number to
call for support for Google Apps? That's not free.)
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