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1171.
by riskable 13y ago
I have several reasons but here's the top: * It runs on Windows and carries with it all that baggage... An unnecessary GUI is always running. Endless security issues. You'll need to reboot regularly to apply patches. You'
1172.
by riskable 13y ago
You actually use the UI? I've been using Rackspace and AWS for a while (years?) now and I can't say I've logged into their web interfaces much at all. Not in months, for sure. How's their API? Can I whip up (and down)
1173.
by riskable 13y ago
> They are technologically probably the most advanced company What?!? How could you possibly believe that when you know they're all using Windows in Redmond. It has absolutely zero technical superiority over everything else out ri
1174.
by riskable 13y ago
The biggest (of many) problems with these offerings is that they only work in and of themselves and only on Windows. I cannot run any of them on my Linux desktop, an Android device, an iPad, etc. Microsoft will not port any of these thing
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Gate One (HTML5 terminal/SSH client) 1.1 is out; new demo lets you play Nethack(liftoffsoftware.com)
1 points by riskable 14y ago|0 comments
1176.
by riskable 15y ago
Hah, interesting. Fortunately we serve different markets so there shouldn't be any conflict there. For reference, to make the Liftoff Software logo I just used the Unicode airplane symbol, skewed it a bit, then drew that curved tail on the
1177.
by riskable 15y ago
Full disclosure: I'm the man behind Gate One and Liftoff Software. I'll be watching this thread to answer anyone's questions.
1178.
HTML5 terminal/SSH client goes 1.0 with Quake-style demo (press ESC on any page)(liftoffsoftware.com)
5 points by riskable 15y ago|4 comments
1179.
by riskable 15y ago
Why does auditability scare you? Besides, it is a requirement of many laws and industry regulations. Especially the log-to-syslog capability which enables centralized logging of sessions. -- Dan McDougall - Author of Gate One
1180.
by riskable 15y ago
This is exactly right. Having said that, I plan to add support for detaching terminals into their own tabs to Gate One in the future. There's no technical reason why it can't be done but it will require a lot of coding. There's another ad
1181.
by riskable 15y ago
Hah, nice find! You'll be interested to note that I am the author of both Escape From The Web and Gate One. Once WebSockets became generally available I decided to write a new application from scratch in order to take advantage of the t
1182.
by riskable 15y ago
As long as the use was strictly internal to your organization the only people you'd have to give the source to would be the users. This includes 3rd party companies you might have a business relationship with (though I doubt they'd put suc
1183.
by riskable 15y ago
Besides what the others have stated (which are some really great reasons), Gate One will resume your sessions if you lose/regain network connectivity, close/reopen your browser, reboot your computer, etc. Also, there's compliance (Gate One
1184.
by riskable 15y ago
I chose to write my own terminal emulator from scratch because after trying various existing open source implementations (including the one in Ajaxterm) I decided they were too slow, buggy, or incomplete. I have old versions of Gate One th
1185.
by riskable 15y ago
Why didn't I add a link to the demo in the README? This has been corrected. Thanks for the tip :) -- Dan McDougall - Author of Gate One
1186.
by riskable 15y ago
Gate One just comes with a bundled SSH plugin that makes using it for SSH really convenient. You can actually use Gate One to run any terminal application you desire. For example, if you run "sudo ./gateone.py --command=/bin/login" Gate O
1187.
by riskable 15y ago
Here's a couple of reasons why Gate One is superior to PuTTY: * Gate One makes temporary network disruptions a trivial inconvenience: If your connection drops (which is sadly very common with business VPNs and home Internet connections) you
1188.
by riskable 15y ago
Two ways: 1) Gate One is licensed under the AGPLv3 which requires that you publicly distribute the source of anything that uses Gate One. Even if it is hosted via a SaaS or ASP solution. So if you want to include Gate One into another pro