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The New OS

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Phil Crissman
on May 28, 2008
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Dave Winer recently wrote:

Twitter is the new OS. For the moment. It’s like the Apple /// in the days before the IBM PC. Remember the Apple ///? (Not many do.)

I think that’s a good insight, and I like the comparison to the early days of the PC (really the pre-PC). But I don’t think Twitter is it.

What I think is coming is going to be more like a jumble of Greasemonkey and Shiftspace. Though I don’t think either of those are “it” — at least, not yet.
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Use Dreamhost’s Web FTP client for any server

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Phil Crissman
on May 16, 2008
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So the other day I wanted to get to an FTP server from work. Nothing awful or time consuming, just wanted to edit and move a couple files. However, the proxy at work block FTP traffic to external servers. What to do?

I had a hunch, so I tried going to Dreamhost’s ftp client; Dreamhost has a web-based FTP client which you can use to do most ftp-like tasks for your site right in the browser. It’s maybe not quite as nice as a real FTP client, but it does the trick. However, the ftp server I wanted to go to was NOT on Dreamhosts’s servers.

As it turns out, it doesn’t matter.

Net2FTP is real FTP client, albeit web based, so it can go anywhere. Just visit http://webftp.dreamhost.com/ and enter the credentials for the FTP server of your choosing, and you’re in.

*Note: the “Blue” theme is normally the default, and is a bit more user-friendly, IMHO.