I tackle the problem by making it a two step process:
1) Look for some phone hardware that is as open, flexible and as standard possible.
      Note that this immediately excludes Apple HW - no openness, no choices there.
2) Select the OS that best satisfies your needs on that hardware.

For (1) I've chosen a Fairphone 2 (5", Qualcomm Snapdragon, 2GB + 32 GB, 2 SIMs + MicroSD, USB-OTG, Headphone Jack, replacable battery), 10/10 on ifixit, built to last.
For (2) you have the choice between Android/OASP 6.1 maintained by the company, regular updates; community supported Ubuntu and Sailfish ports; Lineage 14.1 (aka OASP 7.1) with incremental updates (that's what I'm currently using, but I've test-driven/used them all).

Not cutting hardware & software, but well usable & I expect to get at least another 2-3 years of usage out of this combo.

Here's a link to a port of 1970 v7 unix for the x86 architecture
http://www.nordier.com/v7x86
Boots in seconds, CLI only, no networking ('cept uucp). The ancestor of them all...

Besides the 3.5mm analog output being *the* standard also for non-headphone equipment, why would I want yet another accessory that requires a battery and/or recharging equipment?

We - the people - have given too much power to the state executives already, and their thirst for more is unquenchable!

As so often it will be us - the people - who get hit by these new rules, while the groups they are pretending to target will barely be affected.

Even if you believe in the integrity of your current government: history demonstrates that rules created with good intent and trust can AND WILL be abused.

Best not to relinquish any more power - it may be too late already.

Mod parent up! This looks to me like Google is trying to lock out the competition under the guise of offering improved privacy for the customer.

Even though you've done all that work now, the mobile version of the page does not provide the transcription link!

That's how you earn "google mobile-friendly points" and loose mobile users (not willing to spend bandwith on video).

Is that what this is all about?

To exemplify this:

If your system supports the "#!" magic number any command implemented as a (ba)sh script any way it is called (no need for system!) will trigger the bug.

Implementing functionality in shell scripts and wrapping commands in shell scripts is a *very* common thing in UNIX systems of any flavor and frequently you won't even realize that until a bug like this hits you.

For size try: file /usr/bin/* | grep "shell script" | wc -l

"One App to rule them all, One App to find them, One App to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."

Apologies to Tolkien.

Aaah META - META - META

I decided that I was not going to be burned by another provider turning sour on me so all the solutions that permanently required some third party support were out to start with.

Switched to TinyTiny RSS, hosting it myself, imported all the feeds i had, reading on any machine I please, at work, on my N900 phone (you just can't get "Apps" for that - and what a goodness, too ;-), with all the stuff kept in sync, works perfectly.

Can only recommend it.

I had the opposite problem in my time: The CEO was refusing to shell out money to get the site working in any browser but IE - you know: "because everbody is running IE anyway and we can save money and time-to-market by ignoring the marginal rest of the world".

To (mis-)cite the parent: "I would have given much more than a dollar to be there at the time he finally realized that his site needed to become cross-platform, and pronto."

But then again: He's no longer CEO and I'm no longer in that line of business.

Here's a link to the "lernstick" - this is what is actively being used in schools here (Switzerland) with an English description at: http://www.imedias.ch/lernstick/lernstick_en and downloadable at: http://www.imedias.ch/dateien/lernstick-testversion/

It's based on Debian and meant to be used in schools and at home; There even is a boot-cd for those olden machines that cannot boot off USB.

Additionally they have a stripped down version (lernstick pruefungsumgebung) designed to be used for exams (No Internet).

[[ iMedias is not a company but the name of an institute of the "Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz". The institutes charter is to support schools in using IT for educational purposes. I'm not affiliated with them, but happen to now some people there;-) ]]

There is some software written for maemo called Knots2 (cf. http://wiki.maemo.org/Knots2) that does a pretty decent job of encoding a stream starting from any type of format to something that can be watched natively on the device or with a browser.

It's what I use to access MythTV from my N900.

No idea on how hard this would be to port to Android, though.

Here's a link to the "lernstick" - this is what is actively being used in schools here (Switzerland) with an English description at: http://www.imedias.ch/lernstick/lernstick_en and downloadable at: http://www.imedias.ch/dateien/lernstick-testversion/

It's based on Debian and meant to be used in schools and at home; There even is a boot-cd for those olden machines that cannot boot off USB.

Additionally they have a stripped down version (lernstick pruefungsumgebung) designed to be used for exams (No Internet).

[[ iMedias is not a company but the name of an institute of the "Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz". The institutes charter is to support schools in using IT for educational purposes. I'm not affiliated with them, but happen to now some people there;-) ]]

I really agree with Firethorn:

- Keep the firewall simple. Its job is to keep the rough bulk of attacks from an extranet outside.

- Protect your data where it resides (always!), even against intranet abuse (strong(!) authentication, working access control).

- Monitor use (intrusion detection, normal use / abuse patterns, traffic anomalities, logs)

In todays environment there are plenty of attack vectors that circumvent elaborate firewall constructs (like: USB sticks being used for data exchange, laptops being connected to arbitrary networks while on the road and then brought back into the company network, Blackberrys or iPhones being used to create additional (non-firewalled) connections to the Net, ...) so the distinction between inside and outside has mostly become moot, except (as stated above) for a rough triage.

Far too many company networks today follow the clam model: Strong (and inflexible) shell, mushy interior.