found drama

so when a got the iBook for me she also bought me a year of .Mac. So I get a 100 MB iDisk w/ the package, some limited web services, .Mac IMAP mail, and a few other perks. It’s kind of neat and a great idea but does fall a little short. First off, the .Mac IMAP mail is great. And almost makes the fee worth it. The iDisk is cool too and while 100 MB is a little light, it’s a far cry fr/ the 10 MB of FTP space Adelphia (the world’s 2nd crappiest broadband ISP) offers me. The rest (“web services” and “perks”) are mediocre and I have little use for them. So what would make .Mac worth it?

1. FTP into the iDisk. The iDisk is cool and it’s great that there’s a downloadable Windows front-end utility for it but I’d rather skip the gui and cmd line straight in.
2. Traditional web services. iSync is neat … sync’ing my address book and publishing my iCal … that’s all cool but are kind of a low priority. Seriously, I’d like to be able to use my .Mac/iDisk space to set up a website that wasn’t constrained by assorted .Mac template action. All of which have been very unsatisfying so far.
3. Scripting. To go along w/ the above (any maybe the 2 could’ve been combined) but it would be nice to load up some PHP scripts and/or Perl into my iDisk, set up my web page, and blog-blog-blog. Or something along those lines.

That’s not too much to ask, is it?

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