On 05/17/2011 01:14 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> so every message on this topic seems to have been about the ability to VPN
> in to your network from the iPad, is that really the only thing that
> people are using their tablet for?? (iPad or Android)
The first step of administering something is actually being able to
access it.
I have to either openvpn or ssh with port forwarding, and both Android
and iOS were... flaky, to say the least. To get openvpn on either of
them you have to root/jailbreak, last time I looked none of the iOS ssh
clients supported port forwarding and until Firefox got a proxy plugin
none of the Android browsers supported proxy servers. On Android you
can't even load a file from the memory card in a browser without tricks.
Not to mention the fact that the first and the last device (AFAIK, and I
did some research) with a real keyboard that has essential "sysadmining"
symbols printed on it (|/{}[]%!$) on it was Google G1.
>
> David Lang
>
> On Mon, 16 May 2011, Derek J. Balling wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 08:08:26 -0400
>> From: Derek J. Balling<[email protected]>
>> To: Alexander Lobodzinski<[email protected]>
>> Cc: LOPSA General Discussions<[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Xoom or iPad tools for sysadmin
>>
>>
>> On May 16, 2011, at 7:45 AM, Alexander Lobodzinski wrote:
>>> All is fine and cool as long as it works with your VPN. Clients for
>>> unsupported VPNs e.g. OpenVPN can be installed only after a jailbreak.
>>
>> Well, this is the age-old issue (amusingly) with "non-proprietary" vs
>> commercial products. There's no vendor driving the non-proprietary product
>> to be available on the platform like there is with a commercial product. In
>> other words, when you work with a "pay to play" vendor, you're going to have
>> better support and (sometimes) greater compatibility because that vendor is
>> pushing for platform-adoption, whereas open-source projects often don't have
>> that same level of "drive" associated with them.
>>
>> Sometimes the "free software freedom" offers a lot of pros, but it's
>> important to remember that it can sometimes bite ya on the ass, too. :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> D
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