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Some of us in the US still have unlimited data plans. Not many, but some of us were grandfathered into it and hold onto it for dear life :) Not exactly related
by yareally 14y ago
Some of us in the US still have unlimited data plans. Not many, but some of us were grandfathered into it and hold onto it for dear life :)
Not exactly related to your post, but I'm not sure why he would be concerned with the phone service's NAT if the x-window app is running on a remote server (making him the client). Now if he were running it on his phone (as the server) and connecting to it through the cellular data service, then I could see why.
- Negitivefrags 14y agoX windows client server model can seem intuitively backwards. The applications you run on remote servers are clients of the x server (that renders the windows) you are running locally.
- beagle3 14y agoIt's a relic from a different era: You had a dumb terminal that could only display stuff, and several servers that each could run a piece of software you like. Also, the networks were (supposedly) less dangerous security wise, so people worried less about things like authentication and access control back then. X is celebrating 25 years or so these days: And yet, modern clients can mostly work with 25 year old clients, and modern servers can definitely accept connections from 25 year old clients. And it's very usable. It's a marvel of engineering, even if it is showing its age.
- marshray 14y agoStill, it'd be a good idea to tunnel it through an outbound SSH connection (which is generally the preferred method of starting up the X client app in the first place).