Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-25 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 05:34 +0600, Ariful Hossain wrote: > I dont understand cloud very well. I just have a ubuntu one account > which is supposed to be private cloud. > > I just wanna if all the applications run on servers then the general > users can be at submission and monopolistic business

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-25 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 10:57 -0700, Les wrote: > Thank you for the offer of your article. I would certainly love to read > it. I do strive to keep current, and the cost of books and periodicals > is not getting cheaper. My wife's favorite joke to me is about the cost > per pound of knowledge. S

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-25 Thread Les
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 05:34 +0600, Ariful Hossain wrote: > My employer's journal for > > CxO types has an article I just wrote on this, where I detail why I > > believe this is true. I'm happy to send you a copy off-line if you > like. > > It's a good read, and definitely clarifies these points in

Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-25 Thread J S
uh what's this bottom-posting activity? if i build a barbed-wire fence, should I use bottom-posting? and what should I change of my toiletries? sign of the times, i suppose. take back this G-Mail; take back Joe Piscapo-- give 'em all some place to go. greasemonkey hmph! oh-- is this an op

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-25 Thread Ariful Hossain
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 21:47 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 13:46 -0700, Les wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 07:36 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > > > ...So does this also mean you have the same inherent distrust for that > > > private internal cloud? You k

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-24 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 13:46 -0700, Les wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 07:36 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > ...So does this also mean you have the same inherent distrust for that > > private internal cloud? You know the one that sits inside of your house > > and that you control? > > >

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/24/2010 10:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/25/2010 06:40 AM, Michael Semcheski wrote: >> To sum up this thread: >> >> "I think cloud computing means Y, and Y is good because..." >> >> "But I think cloud computing means X, and X is bad because..." > > You forgot > > "I think cloud comp

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/25/2010 06:40 AM, Michael Semcheski wrote: > To sum up this thread: > > "I think cloud computing means Y, and Y is good because..." > > "But I think cloud computing means X, and X is bad because..." You forgot "I think cloud computing means Y, and Y is bad because..." . :-) -

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-24 Thread Michael Semcheski
To sum up this thread: "I think cloud computing means Y, and Y is good because..." "But I think cloud computing means X, and X is bad because..." -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/us

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-24 Thread Les
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 07:36 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 16:23 +1000, Roger wrote: > > On 07/24/2010 01:32 PM, Nathan W wrote: > > > *snip* > > > > > >> I don't pretend to know what's coming, but I do know that > > >> when stuff is outside my house it can be p

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-24 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 16:23 +1000, Roger wrote: > On 07/24/2010 01:32 PM, Nathan W wrote: > > *snip* > > > >> I don't pretend to know what's coming, but I do know that > >> when stuff is outside my house it can be priced annually, it can be > >> arbitrarily withheld, it can be surveiled, it c

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-23 Thread Roger
On 07/24/2010 01:32 PM, Nathan W wrote: > *snip* > >> I don't pretend to know what's coming, but I do know that >> when stuff is outside my house it can be priced annually, it can be >> arbitrarily withheld, it can be surveiled, it can be compromised by >> those who have direct physical acces

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-23 Thread Nathan W
*snip* > I don't pretend to know what's coming, but I do know that > when stuff is outside my house it can be priced annually, it can be > arbitrarily withheld, it can be surveiled, it can be compromised by > those who have direct physical access, and it is not something I really > want or need. J

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-23 Thread Les
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 15:58 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > Look at the Cloud Harmony benchmarks for your favorite cloud provider here: > > > > http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/06/cloud-server-benchmarking-part-4-memory.html > > > > Consider that you can get (on paper) more throughput

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-23 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 14:23 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: > On 07/23/2010 12:59 AM, JD wrote: > > > > Can you describe the hardware of the private cloud > > and the hardware of the non-cloud machine in the > > location where you were involved in the installation > > or configuration? > > I would like to

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-23 Thread Phil Meyer
On 07/23/2010 12:59 AM, JD wrote: > > Can you describe the hardware of the private cloud > and the hardware of the non-cloud machine in the > location where you were involved in the installation > or configuration? > I would like to know what is being compared to what > when claims of doubling the

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-23 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 23:59 -0700, JD wrote: > On 07/22/2010 10:40 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 23:31 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > >> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 22:14 -0700, JD wrote: > I've personally deployed Tier 1 databases - Oracle RAC in all of its >

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-23 Thread birger
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 18:58 -0700, Les wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 09:25 +0200, birger wrote: > > But if it works and it means > > we (the back-end admins) can continue to override the users wishes and > > provide what they need instead of what they ask for, I'm all for it > > (like when DBA's

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-23 Thread JD
On 07/22/2010 10:40 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 23:31 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 22:14 -0700, JD wrote: I've personally deployed Tier 1 databases - Oracle RAC in all of its glory - on cloud infrastructure. Our RAC nodes

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-22 Thread JD
On 07/22/2010 10:40 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > Almost forgot. Have a look at: > http://www.vmware.com/solutions/business-critical-apps/exchange/ Thank you. I will take a look. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://adm

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-22 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 23:31 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 22:14 -0700, JD wrote: > > > I've personally deployed Tier 1 databases - Oracle RAC in all of its > > > glory - on cloud infrastructure. Our RAC nodes outperformed their > > > physical counterparts in benchma

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-22 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 22:14 -0700, JD wrote: > On 07/22/2010 10:05 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > > >> Reminds me of GFS. Though it is certainly interesting technology, > >> no one has come out with models that show it's performance > >> benchmarks exceeding the performance of local storage

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-22 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 18:58 -0700, Les wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 09:25 +0200, birger wrote: > > But if it works and it means > > we (the back-end admins) can continue to override the users wishes and > > provide what they need instead of what they ask for, I'm all for it > > (like when DBA's

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-22 Thread JD
On 07/22/2010 10:05 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > >> Reminds me of GFS. Though it is certainly interesting technology, >> no one has come out with models that show it's performance >> benchmarks exceeding the performance of local storage. >> Does anyone know of large and mission critical d

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-22 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 19:14 -0700, JD wrote: > On 07/22/2010 06:58 PM, Les wrote: > > > Reminds me of GFS. Though it is certainly interesting technology, > no one has come out with models that show it's performance > benchmarks exceeding the performance of local storage. > Does anyone know of larg

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-22 Thread JD
On 07/22/2010 06:58 PM, Les wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 09:25 +0200, birger wrote: >> But if it works and it means >> we (the back-end admins) can continue to override the users wishes and >> provide what they need instead of what they ask for, I'm all for it >> (like when DBA's come with ve

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-22 Thread Les
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 09:25 +0200, birger wrote: > But if it works and it means > we (the back-end admins) can continue to override the users wishes and > provide what they need instead of what they ask for, I'm all for it > (like when DBA's come with very specific orders detailing raid type and >

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-22 Thread David Liguori
On 7/20/2010 3:23 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 20/07/10 20:18, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 19:45:26 Antonio Olivares wrote: >> >>> What's a YAA? >>> >> YAA stands for "Yet Another Acronym". ;-) >> >> > But it's also a TLA > > Three letter acro

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-22 Thread David Liguori
On 7/20/2010 3:23 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 20/07/10 20:18, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 19:45:26 Antonio Olivares wrote: >> >>> What's a YAA? >>> >> YAA stands for "Yet Another Acronym". ;-) >> >> > But it's also a TLA > > > Three Letter Ac

Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-22 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 15:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > IMHO you forgot to add IMHO since we've now entered the realm of > opinion, IMHO. :-) ;-) I think that it goes without saying that anything that someone expresses about something is an opinion. Usually their own, but it can be someone else'

Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-22 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Tim wrote: > You can argue for bottom posting, but you usually have to scroll past > lots of needlessly quoted text, as few people trim the quotes. And > those that don't tend to be the ones that include 300 lines of quotes. Rather a lot of the noise on mailing lists is quot

Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/22/2010 03:48 PM, Tim wrote: > The biggest sin is not editing out the quoted text that's not needed, > not the posting style. Use the damn delete key, or we will use ours. IMHO you forgot to add IMHO since we've now entered the realm of opinion, IMHO. :-) -- YOW!! What should the entire

Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-22 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 17:51 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > No, actually, those using Thunderbird (esp those who think bottom > posting is a pain) should install the Quote Collapse add-on. If you > need to read the collapsed quote, just click on the +. There is no substitute for posting a clear

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-22 Thread birger
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 22:27 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear fellow Fedora users, > > In light of the other(s) Big Distro makers, Red Hat is also taking a look at > not staying behind. Here's an article that might be of interest: > > http://press.redhat.com/2010/07/12/red-hat-introduces-cl

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 11:10 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > BTW: Was that in Latin? What language was that in? I tried to > follow it, but could not understand, and then understood a few lines, > then again, the same thing, then one line ..., etc. Yes, it was ipsum lorem. It can be random

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 18:51 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 17:26 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > > >> If your MUA requires you to tell others to not quote, to not top-post, > >> to do anything other th

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 17:26 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > >> If your MUA requires you to tell others to not quote, to not top-post, >> to do anything other than post whatever they like, in order to read >> your email comfortably, t

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 17:26 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > If your MUA requires you to tell others to not quote, to not top-post, > to do anything other than post whatever they like, in order to read > your email comfortably, then you are using the wrong MUA. If your implication is that no ma

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 11:26pm on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 (UK time), Christofer C. Bell > scrawled: > >> regardless of one's taste in MUA, one should not be using an MUA that >> makes it difficult to read one's email without enforcing one's >> personal view

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:26pm on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 (UK time), Christofer C. Bell scrawled: > Come to think of it, I doubt the folks who missed it the first go > around are going to get it this time, either. To speak plainly: I am glad, because I didn't get your point until you wrote this third email.

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Carroll Grigsby wrote: >> >> Christofer: >> Here in the 21st century we have considerable choice as to how we use >> our computers. Gmail is just one of many possible solutions.. > > I see that the joke

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > Christofer: > Here in the 21st century we have considerable choice as to how we use > our computers. Gmail is just one of many possible solutions.. I see that the joke was lost on more than one person. My reference to the 20th century w

Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 07/21/2010 05:46 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: In fact, it makes top posting preferable since Gmail hides all the bottom posted material.  It's still there if you need to r

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:34:31 -0500 "Christofer C. Bell" wrote: > 2010/7/21 Phil Savoie : > > Makes a good argument for top posting, doesn't it? > > > > Just teasing... > > Personally, I wish people wouldn't quote much of anything at all > unless absolutely necessary to illustrate a point. I've

Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-21 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 07/21/2010 05:46 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: >>> >>> In fact, it makes top posting preferable since Gmail hides all the >>> bottom posted material. It's still there if you need to read it, but >>> generally you don't. ;-) >> >> I use Gmail in TB3

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 16:34 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > 2010/7/21 Phil Savoie : > > Makes a good argument for top posting, doesn't it? > > > > Just teasing... > > Personally, I wish people wouldn't quote much of anything at all > unless absolutely necessary to illustrate a point. Agreed.

Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: >> >> In fact, it makes top posting preferable since Gmail hides all the >> bottom posted material.  It's still there if you need to read it, but >> generally you don't. ;-) > > I use Gmail in TB3, but someone asked me about bottom posting i

Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-21 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
> > In fact, it makes top posting preferable since Gmail hides all the > bottom posted material. It's still there if you need to read it, but > generally you don't. ;-) > I use Gmail in TB3, but someone asked me about bottom posting in Gmail, I give to him this solution. - Use Firefox - Instal

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Christofer C. Bell
2010/7/21 Phil Savoie : > Makes a good argument for top posting, doesn't it? > > Just teasing... Personally, I wish people wouldn't quote much of anything at all unless absolutely necessary to illustrate a point. I've moved into the 20th century and read email in Gmail where threaded conversation

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Antonio Olivares
The concept of Cloud Computing is there, but folks have to decide for their own cases and their own solutions [private,public,...] Clouds :) > -- And then came the RAIN due to "Cloud Computing". Sorry guys, could not resist. :( Regards, Antonio Tim, BTW: Was that in Latin? What language

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Phil Savoie
Makes a good argument for top posting, doesn't it? Just teasing... On 21/07/10 11:19 AM, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 07:46 -0700, JD wrote: >> smart use or efficient use > > Speaking of such, can people to learn to snip when quoting, FFS! > > Geez, but you COMPLETELY UNNECESSARILY quoted

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 09:12 -0700, JD wrote: > LOL ! That's a knee slapper :) And yet he does it again. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraprojec

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread JD
LOL ! That's a knee slapper :) On 07/21/2010 08:19 AM, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 07:46 -0700, JD wrote: >> smart use or efficient use > Speaking of such, can people to learn to snip when quoting, FFS! > > Geez, but you COMPLETELY UNNECESSARILY quoted 154 lines of 4 complete > prior ema

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 00:49 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 07:46 -0700, JD wrote: > > smart use or efficient use > > Speaking of such, can people to learn to snip when quoting, FFS! > > Geez, but you COMPLETELY UNNECESSARILY quoted 154 lines of 4 complete > prior emails to just add

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 08:26 -0700, JD wrote: > On 07/21/2010 08:12 AM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 07:46 -0700, JD wrote: > >> On 07/21/2010 12:55 AM, Les wrote: > > > >>> I watched a very good company have a big breakdown when their old server > >>> system with dumb t

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 00:55 -0700, Les wrote: > > I like my systems to be local. I program them, I explore them, I > sometimes hack on them with software, hardware, or a combination. I > occasionally take one of the off line and use it for a program dump, or > just to mess with ethernet stuff w

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread JD
On 07/21/2010 08:12 AM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 07:46 -0700, JD wrote: >> On 07/21/2010 12:55 AM, Les wrote: > >>> I watched a very good company have a big breakdown when their old server >>> system with dumb terminals went down. The costs, and impacts nearly put

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 07:46 -0700, JD wrote: > smart use or efficient use Speaking of such, can people to learn to snip when quoting, FFS! Geez, but you COMPLETELY UNNECESSARILY quoted 154 lines of 4 complete prior emails to just add 4 lines of text. Quite apart from being a hugely inefficien

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 07:46 -0700, JD wrote: > On 07/21/2010 12:55 AM, Les wrote: > > I watched a very good company have a big breakdown when their old server > > system with dumb terminals went down. The costs, and impacts nearly put > > them out of business. If they had been smaller it would h

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread JD
On 07/21/2010 12:55 AM, Les wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 20:48 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 03:00 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >>> On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 23:18:11 Phil Meyer wrote: That is the whole point. Ideally this is how it works from a ptactical

Re: Encrypted VM's (was Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...)

2010-07-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 20:21:56 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > > This way -the VM can be booted no prob with unencrypted root - but user > of VM gets privacy. Only against after the fact attempts to recover the data. If you are under surveilance when you access the vm, your keys can be capt

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Les wrote: >        Moreover you pointed out one of the real issues: month to month rental > or lease or whatever you want to call it.  And that is not counting the > connection costs, storage premium if you are a non-standard user, or the > lack of control, or the

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Tim wrote: > This (the above, plus the whole of your message that I didn't quote) all > sounds like they've just renamed mainframe computing as clouds. Well the web probably sounded like they had just renamed gopher. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Les
On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 20:48 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 03:00 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 23:18:11 Phil Meyer wrote: > > > That is the whole point. Ideally this is how it works from a ptactical > > > point of view: > > > > > > I am

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 13:21 -0400, Michael Semcheski wrote: > With a private cloud, there'd be one group that does all the servers. > That one group purchases the hardware autonomously, uses fancy tools > to monitor the hardware, has a room with redundant power and redundant > cooling. Individual

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 03:00 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 23:18:11 Phil Meyer wrote: > > That is the whole point. Ideally this is how it works from a ptactical > > point of view: > > > > I am the Dean of Engineering and we need to run a massive simulation of > > a type

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > When people invest their money into something, they want to be "in charge" of > it. And if they are supposed to share it with others, there is bound to be a > lot of friction. One of the key ideas that makes Amazon's EC2 and S3 successful

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 23:18:11 Phil Meyer wrote: > On 07/20/2010 03:38 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > > While there are quite a lot of advantages to this there are some > > disadvantages, particularly in the research setting you describe where > > each department will have its own set of grants which

Re: Encrypted VM's (was Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...)

2010-07-20 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/20/2010 03:11 PM, Michael Semcheski wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:27 PM, wrote: >> Just in general, what's the point in having server-disks (either local or >> "in-the-cloud" encrypted? >> As soon as you start them up, all we be de-crypted and your system is only >> protected by norm

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Phil Meyer
On 07/20/2010 03:38 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > On 20 July 2010 18:21, Michael Semcheski wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> >>> Specifically, assuming that I have my own hardware to set the whole thing >>> up, >>> what is the difference between having a

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Ian Malone
On 20 July 2010 18:21, Michael Semcheski wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> Specifically, assuming that I have my own hardware to set the whole thing up, >> what is the difference between having a server (possibly virtualized), and >> having a server "on the clou

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Jesse Palser
I have had enough, take this meaningless talk somewhere else, I am tired of getting 100's of stupid Fedora messages like these On 07/20/2010 03:23 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 20/07/10 20:18, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 19:45:26 Antonio Olivares wrote: >>> What's a YAA?

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:18:40 +0100 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > YAA stands for "Yet Another Acronym". ;-) UNA! (Use No Acronyms :-). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelin

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Frank Murphy
On 20/07/10 20:18, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 19:45:26 Antonio Olivares wrote: >> What's a YAA? > > YAA stands for "Yet Another Acronym". ;-) > But it's also a TLA -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 19:45:26 Antonio Olivares wrote: > What's a YAA? YAA stands for "Yet Another Acronym". ;-) Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelin

Re: Encrypted VM's (was Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...)

2010-07-20 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:27 PM, wrote: > Just in general, what's the point in having server-disks (either local or > "in-the-cloud" encrypted? > As soon as you start them up, all we be de-crypted and your system is only > protected by normal security measures. > > Only usefull purpose might be

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Ok, I understand what you are saying, but what you actually describe is an > organizational issue, while I was having in mind a little bit more technical > aspect. No, what I'm describing is a situation. That situation developed over time

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 13:41 -0400, Matthew J. Roth wrote: > --- On Tue, 7/20/10, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > > Say, since you have hands-on experience with this, would > > you mind helping me understand the idea itself? > > > > Specifically, assuming that I have my own hardware to set > > the who

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Antonio Olivares
> My general understanding of any IT concept is that it has > two aspects --- > design and implementation. If cloud computing is purely a > design thing that is > being implemented via other (existing) technologies wrapped > together, then > it's just abstract terminology (which is yet to be def

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 18:21:58 Michael Semcheski wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Specifically, assuming that I have my own hardware to set the whole thing > > up, what is the difference between having a server (possibly > > virtualized), and having a serve

RE: Encrypted VM's (was Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...)

2010-07-20 Thread J.Witvliet
-Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Michael Semcheski Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 6:03 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Encrypted VM's (was Re: OT: Cloud Computing is comi

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread JD
On 07/20/2010 11:06 AM, Michael Semcheski wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Antonio Olivares > wrote: >> It was a legitimate question, since I read somewhere that Ubuntu was using >> some kind of cloud service and how does one disable it. >> >> Is there some kind of guarantee that Fedo

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > It was a legitimate question, since I read somewhere that Ubuntu was using > some kind of cloud service and how does one disable it. > > Is there some kind of guarantee that Fedora will not force one to store /home > on a "Cloud server s

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Tue, 7/20/10, Matthew J. Roth wrote: > Antonio, > > Clearly, you are just playing devil's advocate since the > answers to your questions are contained in a document that > has already been quoted once in the replies to your initial > post.  In fact, that document is a mere two clicks awa

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Matthew J. Roth
--- On Tue, 7/20/10, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Say, since you have hands-on experience with this, would > you mind helping me understand the idea itself? > > Specifically, assuming that I have my own hardware to set > the whole thing up, what is the difference between having > a server (possibly

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread JD
On 07/20/2010 10:12 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 07/20/2010 10:38 PM, JD wrote: >> Will there be a way to remove this feature from one's installation? >> The web site you refer has in it more of how-to's for ops. >> I hope that one can reconfigure the kernel to disable cloud altogether. >> > "C

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Specifically, assuming that I have my own hardware to set the whole thing up, > what is the difference between having a server (possibly virtualized), and > having a server "on the cloud"? And what is the main benefit of the latter > over

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/20/2010 10:41 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > --- On Tue, 7/20/10, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > >> What cloud committee? >> >> > Sorry I did not post that, I forgot about it. I read that Red Hat was > exploring the "Cloud computing/Cloud Services" like Google, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu > and

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/20/2010 10:38 PM, JD wrote: > > Will there be a way to remove this feature from one's installation? > The web site you refer has in it more of how-to's for ops. > I hope that one can reconfigure the kernel to disable cloud altogether. > "Cloud computing" isn't a kernel feature to disable

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Tue, 7/20/10, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > From: Rahul Sundaram > Subject: Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ... > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 9:56 AM > On 07/20/2010 10:19 PM, Antonio > Olivares wrote: >

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread JD
On 07/20/2010 08:31 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> What are the implicit and explicit impacts on the Fedora >> distribution? >> >> -- > Fedora would be used/utilized for the experimentation/design of the "Cloud" > > See this: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Cloud_Infrastructure_SOP > >

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Tue, 7/20/10, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > From: Marko Vojinovic > Subject: Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ... > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 9:51 AM > On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 17:32:20 > Christopher A. Williams wrote: > >

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/20/2010 10:19 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > Did I say that? You are adding this to the discussion. I just posted that > Red Hat had a "cloud committee" and a link to the page. I know, I know if > you took it that way I am sorry :( > What cloud committee? You posted a link about

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 17:32:20 Christopher A. Williams wrote: > Sorry I'm "late to the party" on this one. This (consulting, designing, > deploying, and managing cloud environments) is what I do in my day job, > so I'm regularly at ground zero of these and related issues. I drive a > lot of tho

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Tue, 7/20/10, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > From: Rahul Sundaram > Subject: Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ... > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 9:40 AM > On 07/20/2010 09:57 PM, Antonio > Olivares wrote: > >&

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 09:27:07 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > How does one explain Fedora Games SIG?  > > A customized spin of Fedora with games :), Like KDE spin, LXDE spin, XFCE > spin, SugarSpin, ..., etc. I can ask Bruno Wolffe for more information on > the Games spin if needed, b

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/20/2010 09:57 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> How does one explain Fedora Games SIG? >> > A customized spin of Fedora with games :), Like KDE spin, LXDE spin, XFCE > spin, SugarSpin, ..., etc. I can ask Bruno Wolffe for more information on > the Games spin if needed, but I am happy a

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 11:49 -0400, Matthew J. Roth wrote: > Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > Keywords: properly designed :) > > > > But you are still succeptible to a third party[even though the files could > > be crypted and apparently not seen, that might not be the case] and you > > can't be 1

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 16:16:30 Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On 07/20/2010 10:58 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > I am opposed to it, because I don't want to trust a third party with my > > files, with my documents, ..., etc. I agree with Richard Stallman on > > this one: > > > > http://www.guard

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Antonio Olivares
> How does one explain Fedora Games SIG?  A customized spin of Fedora with games :), Like KDE spin, LXDE spin, XFCE spin, SugarSpin, ..., etc. I can ask Bruno Wolffe for more information on the Games spin if needed, but I am happy as it is :) > Fedora has > hundreds of projects > running at

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