So I read today, that an old Opera guy came up with a new browser called Vivaldi. Just trying it and it is amazingly fast and looks totally nerdy. Although it is only a tech preview, I am in love!

Link: http://vivaldi.com (the .net domain belongs to them, too, as it seems, but is for their socialist stuff)

Hm.  It seems that Communist China is now forcing everyone to use their real names online.

[ http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/04/us-china-internet-censorship-idUSKBN0L80ZF20150204 ]

In particular, impersonation for entertainment is explicitly banned.  Fake Steve Jobs won't be able to publish in China anymore.

I have to say I'm quite surprised with FCC chairman Tom Wheeler with respect to Net Neutrality.

[ http://www.wired.com/2015/02/fcc-chairman-wheeler-net-neutrality/ ]

Prior to his appointment to the FCC, Wheeler was a cable and telecom lobbyist.  It was generally predicted that he would simply turn the wishes of pigopolists like Comcast into official FCC regulations.  As it turns out, however, he's actually making a sensible set of proposals to the Commission regarding Net Neutrality.

Pretty much everyone observing the issue from a political perspective has got it wrong.  They see it as an issue of giving control of the Internet to the government vs. giving it to corporations - which finds me, as a conservative, landing squarely on the "wrong" side of the debate.  The "scarce resource" here is the last-mile connection to every home and business.  Companies which operate these resources are granted artificial monopolies, or at least duopolies, which means they absolutely have to be regulated in order to keep them from abuse.

Wheeler is proposing the imposition of Title II protections on broadband Internet service, essentially cementing it as a common carrier.  Predictably, Comcast/AT&T/Verizon are crying foul, while everyone else is cheering.

I am gonna get a shared hosting plan one of these days, to run a wordpress powered website, and just wondered if i could run a citadel on it, (rather than host at home, or on a VPS ). 

The ISP i am considering use debian on their servers, so i contacted them just in-case they already have heard of citadel. They would install citadel-suite from the debian repositories for me, but what would be the best way for them to manage citadel on a 'shared' server? Here is the end of their email to me.

So going back to the shell account: if we type "apt-get install citadel-suite" to our shell account server, that will certainly pull in all the packages. But from just a very brief glance at the front page, I'm predicting that it's going to want to "own" at least the mail system on the server.

 

Can you tell us a bit more about what it is you're wanting to do? Possibly we can work out some way to hook it into our existing systems and does what you need.

Mon May 18 2015 21:56:36 EDT from mo Subject: Citadel on a shared hosting plan

I am gonna get a shared hosting plan one of these days, to run a wordpress powered website, and just wondered if i could run a citadel on it, (rather than host at home, or on a VPS ). 

The ISP i am considering use debian on their servers, so i contacted them just in-case they already have heard of citadel. They would install citadel-suite from the debian repositories for me, but what would be the best way for them to manage citadel on a 'shared' server? Here is the end of their email to me.

So going back to the shell account: if we type "apt-get install citadel-suite" to our shell account server, that will certainly pull in all the packages. But from just a very brief glance at the front page, I'm predicting that it's going to want to "own" at least the mail system on the server.

 

Can you tell us a bit more about what it is you're wanting to do? Possibly we can work out some way to hook it into our existing systems and does what you need.

http://citadel.org/doku.php/faq:generalquestions:can_i_install_citadel_on_a_shared_web_hosting_account

its going to have more priviliges than they will want to admit to you.

For shure you can disable port 25, 587, 443 imap, imaps, pop3... But if you're aide you could re-enable it.

however, you could use the citadele only with port 504 federation, and with webcit behind an apache proxy.

therefore they should only install citadel-server and citadel-webcit (which will not demand to become the mta)

Thanks Dothebart! I'll ready the wiki first next time :). Glad i asked, maybe the ISP would be interested in offering citadel to it's customers, aswell as the two webmail programs that come as standard (squirellmail and roundcube)?

Looks like i would have to get a VPS or self host for sure. Didn't hurt to ask though.

Mo, you should be able to run on a small vps (around $5 - $20 USD / mo) - depends on what you need for resources. When I first installed Citadel, it was a self hosted at home with dynamic dns service on an old AMD K5 with 128 MB ram.  I switched from Exim running on an old 486 with 32 MB ram, so I figured 128 MB was plenty.  Turns out, it was :-)

Currently, I use a vps with 8 mb for citserver, and about 16 mb for webcit.  The bulk of the ram goes to spamd (currently at 76 mb).  The VPS I use has 512MB with about 3 users (5 total, but only about 3 active most days).

VPS seems a good idea. Your right, not much dearer atall.