Category: cloud computing

google builds the Matrix

Google keeps doing things Right, which is rather inconvenient.  And, maybe not so good for FOSS. And then I realized they are building the Matrix.  A cold shiver when up my spine. It all started with my contact database.  Or, we should say, "datab… more »

dropbox, truecrypt, etc. ... and cloud security issues

Cloud computing has inherent security issues that do not exist when you keep your computer and isolated from attack.  Just keeping some reasonable focus on the issues is a herculean task.With free software, we do not actually know there is no malevol… more »

more jolicloud

You can see I have added a category for "jolicloud" to my blog.  I now have two computers running Jolicloud and everything is going great(er) than expected! When I tried the beta, I did not realize that Jolicloud was sitting on top of a full Ubuntu ins… more »

Well, Snaps!

OK, I'm legally too old to say, "snaps" to anything. But in any event, I wanted Thunderbird to connect to my office Windows Exchange server.  Which it doesn't. Howsomever, I came across DavMail.  As this is sort of a server-connector type thing, it see… more »

jolicloud again

Okay, I'm not used to looking at everything on my screen being quite so big.  That's because Jolicloud did not get the resolution on my external monitor right, so I have 1024x768 instead of 1280 x 1024 that I expected to see.OTOH, Jolicloud set everythin… more »