Jon wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been using Cosmopod for a while now (www.cosmopod.com). It's very handy > for using KMail with my IMAP account and for SSH'ing and getting to websites > on non-standard ports when I'm trapped behind my firewall at work. > > However, it's clunky and slow and KMail crashes a lot. I'm wondering if > there's anything else like CosmoPOD out there? The three features that aI > need are what's mentioned above: IMAP, SSH, and HTTP to non-standard ports. > > Any ideas?
correct me if I'm wrong, but cosmopod gives you access to your desktop on your home computer? If that's the case, why not just setup a vnc or rdp server on your home computer, and then use krdc to connect, or MS Remote Desktop, or any VNC client... Then you have access to everything you have set up on your home pc. Of course, you'll have to open some ports for this to work, and take proper security precautions, but you're not relying on a third party service then... hmmm.. reading a little more about cosmopod, it seems it provides it's own common desktop for you. You could simulate this by putting a Linux distro of your choice on a usb stick, and booting from that. Then you have your own desktop everywhere you go (or doing the vnc/rdp thing above). With a little creative configuration of mount points you could in theory have access to a common directory as long as you have Internet access. This might be a bit more effort to set up, but then you're not potentially giving your details to a 3rd party organization and you have complete control over what capabilities you get. My thoughts.... Shawn Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
