<p>Not yet. It's on my list of tech to tinker with.<br>
Using cloudmin now for web admin of kvm machine. Same author as webmin. Pretty good. Designed for virtual hosting providers .</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 23, 2012 7:10 PM, "Pablo Ordonez" <<a href="mailto:pablo.f.ordonez@gmail.com">pablo.f.ordonez@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Have anyone tried <a href="http://owncloud.org/" target="_blank">http://owncloud.org</a>? I haven't, but it looks promising. <div><br></div><div>Pablo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yeah. But if the cloud was my own and the tablet was truly mine (i.e.<br>
rooted and reinstalled with my choice of binaries), I could see how<br>
this could be useful. Puts the backup needs in one space.<br>
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:39 PM, David Tomaschik<br>
<<a href="mailto:david@systemoverlord.com" target="_blank">david@systemoverlord.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> So, being the security-conscious (paranoid) guy I am, I would not<br>
> trust most cloud providers with all my data. Plus, the OS on tablets<br>
> is too restrictive unless you root and do CM or something.<br>
><br>
> David<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Vernard Martin <<a href="mailto:vernard@venger.net" target="_blank">vernard@venger.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On 10/23/2012 02:06 PM, JD wrote:<br>
>>> Has anyone else attempted this?<br>
>>> * Setup a Linux desktop "in the cloud"<br>
>>> * Remote desktop into the cloud-desktop, as needed<br>
>>> * Use ssh whenever possible<br>
>>> * Use a tablet as your primary interface<br>
>>><br>
>>> Here's a story <a href="http://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698/ipad-linode-1-year-later" target="_blank">http://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698/ipad-linode-1-year-later</a><br>
>>> about a guy doing just that for almost all his desktop needs. Interesting read<br>
>>> for the Linux crowd.<br>
>>><br>
>> I do this right now for a few of my clients at work. We have Linux<br>
>> servers on Amazon EC2 and they use NoMachine Client so that we can<br>
>> connect and disconnect to the server and leave the desktop intact. Works<br>
>> pretty well except for when they need to move terabytes of data into and<br>
>> out of the server....<br>
>><br>
>> Several of them found that the tablets were a bit restrictive for the<br>
>> work they were doing due to low resolution size. Most of them use 15"<br>
>> Macbook Pros instead.<br>
>><br>
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