pages tagged cloudspwhittonhttps://spwhitton.name//tag/cloud/spwhittonikiwiki2015-11-18T17:09:12ZCardDAV and CalDAV serverhttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/baikal/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2015-02-16T01:03:00Z
<p><a href="http://baikal-server.com/">Baïkal</a></p>
<p>Looks nice.</p>
Instant free temporary VPShttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/freeserver/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2013-07-27T11:34:00Z
<p><a href="http://instantserver.io/">Instant Server</a></p>
Google Reader is goinghttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/googlereader/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2013-03-17T09:16:00Z
<p><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/14/the-outrage-and-sadness-of-google-readers-demise/">The outrage and sadness of Google Reader’s demise |
engadget</a></p>
<p>Bwahahahahaa, more evidence that you mustn’t trust your digital life to
software-as-a-service.</p>
<p>SDF have started up an alternative:</p>
<blockquote><p>SDF now offers a reader interface which you can set up via the ‘o’
option in the maintenance menu (type ‘maint’ at the shell). The
interface uses the Tiny Tiny Rich Site Summary or tt-rss software.</p></blockquote>
<p>Though I’m quite happy with my rss2email cronjob.</p>
Another alternative to Google Docshttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/etherpad/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2011-09-14T09:34:00Z
<p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/">etherpad - EtherPad Open Source Release - Google Project
Hosting</a></p>
Gobby: an alternative to Google Docshttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/gobby/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2011-08-31T11:40:00Z
<p><a href="http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/">Gobby: a collaborative text editor</a></p>
Duply: simple duplicityhttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/duply/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2011-08-28T21:10:00Z
<p><a href="http://duply.net/">Duply (simple duplicity)</a></p>
<p>This looks like a great way of using duplicity. I have my own simple
scripts that work, but if I were to start backing up something else I’d
probably check this out.</p>
Cory Doctorow on DDoS attackshttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/moralsuasion/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2011-07-12T16:06:00Z
<p>Just wanted to note down this thought from Cory Doctorow:</p>
<blockquote><p>Some hacktivists argue that their DDoS attacks are comparable to the
civil-rights-era sit-ins — after all, a wall of activists blockading
the doors to a “whites-only” lunch counter is a kind of
denial-of-service attack. I think they’re wrong. …</p>
<p>Sit-ins are a sort of denial of service, but that’s not why they work.
What they do is convey the message: “I am willing to put myself in
harm’s way for my beliefs. I am willing to risk arrest and jail. This
matters.”</p>
<p>And that’s a crucial difference between a DDoS and a sit-in:
participants in a sit-in expect to get arrested. …</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/06/moral-suasion.html">Moral Suasion | MAKE
Magazine</a></p>
Info on why Amazon's AWS being down is so catastrophichttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/awsdownapr11/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2011-04-22T09:26:00Z
<p><a href="http://justinsb.posterous.com/aws-down-why-the-sky-is-falling">AWS is down: Why the sky is falling | justinsb’s
posterous</a></p>
<p>This is a really interesting read. There are two sides to the cloud
computing lark as I see it, though I’ve not seen the distinction drawn
by anyone else myself: firstly there is the really dangerous idea that
users should store their data online with various providers who are
probably using the second part of cloud computing but who don’t have to
be, which is really bad because it takes away control over something
that is increasingly important in our lives. But secondly there is the
idea of using elastic virtual instances over traditional always-on
servers that sit idle half the time; it’s more efficient and
environmentally friendly.</p>
<p>The problem is that AWS doesn’t really have much competition in the
latter atm which is why it going down brings the web with it which is
bad. I think that this also shows that traditional websites offering
information should definitely keep running their own webservers; such
sites at ten times more important than Web 2.0 and its friends and need
to remain up.</p>
10k cores supercomputer on Amazon EC3https://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/amazon10kcores/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2011-04-06T21:43:00Z
<p><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/040611-linux-supercomputer.html">10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud | Network
World</a></p>
<p>Cloud computing finally did something really cool <code>:D</code></p>