I want gmail to offer an image system, where by you ask to download an image (zipped of course) of the current state of your email folders and configs and all contacts, into a nicely zipped file. Then you can restore or backup using the notion as in VSS, which makes it very easy to maintain backups for individuals, especially those that do not want to wait long hours to use something crappy like outlook to manage their backups of emails. Also it would solve the bulk upload/download situation...as it would be zipped.
Seconded... you hear this Googlies?
With an incremental option as well, so you only have to DL the whole creampuff once.
And for the dozen, "Why don't you" replies that will follow... because that's not what we are after. We aren't looking to have a backup mail location as much as just having a backup ala googleness.
Can't complain. We were all warned that it is a BETA product. That means things can go horribly wrong, and they warned us it wasn't really ready to be used yet.
That's why I grow all my own food, generate my own electricity, and perform all my own medical care. Although I'm miserable focusing on all these tasks that others can perform more capably than me, it's a small price to pay in the very, very unlikely event of a catastrophe that destroys society but for some reason leaves me alive. That way, even with the failure of the "cloud" known as society, I'll be able to continue living my life the way I always have - miserably and without time for sleep, playing with my son, etc.
Lol, really? No one's gonna mod that funny as hell?
I've asked myself this many times. As a storage analyst, everyone always uses "the cloud" as a buzz word to excite their managers into spending money.
In the end it's still business as usual. disk backend, FC switched SAN. Sure it may be on demand, but when does on demand end? When I upload 14TB of documents?
You really don't get it... it scales EASIER. Fault tolerance is TRUE fault tolerance. When something breaks in the middle of the night, you can fix it the next day cause at most maybe you lost 20% cycles, all the data is still there, it's still available.
You come in the morning, replace the broken item, no one even knew anything had happened.
The entire backend "cloud" has been commoditized. Sure it runs much better on a bunch of blades or server optimized equipment but you can use commodity stuff until that point!
Not sure what the 14TB of docs has to do with it?
Oh! Wait... you're one of those, that sees the word cloud and thinks it only runs on magic on someone ELSE's servers.
No, that type of cloud is for SOHO and personal use. I'm talking about the private corporate cloud. All your data is still yours, it's still under your roof. You control it.
Resistance is futile you will be assimilated into the cloud.
MS Office and LibreOffice kill GDocs. Also Microsoft has made deals so Novell's OpenOffice and KOffice have better compatibility thant Google. Google just don't want to take responsibility.
Lol... hey... your pager is blowin up man!
Google Docs(type of offering) is the future. Being constrained to one computer is the past.
Those that cite compatibility are ignorant to the fact that if you START workflow on a new platform, the compatibility isn't an issue.
Sure, lots of places have legacy office systems.
And lawyers and doctors used to be all paper. Who but a fool would go to a doctor or lawyer now that didn't do a majority of their stuff on a computer?
Exactly.
Same thing with the cloud, same thing with the deconvergence [sic] of our connected, online and storage devices. The cloud will be NECESSARY.
Perhaps but... the article was interesting... it was sufficiently geeky and while not "news" it was much better than some of the stuff that slides out of idle onto here.
Book promotion? That's fair, it is about a subject that it seems a good number of us are interested in. I will take that over some of the stuff that gets posted, any day.
So, you see a girl whose name you don't remember...
Now you have to remember: is this the girl who is careening down an icy road, or is this the girl that has to breathe oxygen?
I don't see how adding an extra step in the process helps!?
They're not my friends and cause of the memory picture he painted, I now know their names, Carice and Flo. And let's not forget tall Lewis. Which I personally would have associated with Carl Lewis... but picture memories are personal... that's the idea.
You don't "get that"?
I'll probably remember their names for a while now.
I've tried techniques like mnemonics, visualising a story or creating associations. Unfortunately, I have a problem with that: I often can't remember the mnemomics themselves, or what the mnemonics stand for, or the story/associations.
Rtfa, that's what it's about..
Memory Palaces are where you store the mnemonic associations thus creating a stronger visual inference plus a way to locate them (loci method)
Read post, 35298244, many good links for research on there.
I believe I have a photographic memory, although I couldn't be sure, because I haven't had a different memory to be able to tell the difference.
What I can say with absolute certainty is that I can recall certain scenes which I have seen and somewhat visualise an image in my mind of that scene. I can't recall detail- I couldn't look at a book page and recall every word on the page, but I can walk down a street, and think back to that scene and say "Yeah, there was a red Ford Mondeo turning left, I was on the left hand footpath, there was a coop shop to my left, 1ft by 1ft square gray paving slabs, a girl crossing the road with a grey top and a pink pushchair, a blue Renault Clio parked up in front of me".
It's certainly not just a case of recalling what was in the scene but being able to visualise it and then pull information from that visualisation in my mind. This is why I presume I have a photographic memory.
Whether someone can train themselves in this way I've no idea, it's just something that's always been naturally possible to me.
Hate to burst your [memory] bubble. But that's as far from photographic memory as that Mondeo is from being a Ferrari.
That's unfortunately... just average memory. I can recall every car and type in the bank parking lot when I went this afternoon.
How many people were at the bank... what they were doing, what was on that insidious TV in there, etc.
What I cannot tell you is... license plate numbers (if it was photographic, I'd be listing those).
Can't tell you lipstick color of the tellers. I can tell you in detail about the banker helping me... mainly cause she had atrocious taste in clothes and jewelry and it made a big stinkin impression on my brain, lol.
Oddly enough (I have a strong 'counting' memory) I can tell you about every feature of the ceiling in the second bank I went to. That banker left for about 3 min... and I became intrigued with the anti-bank-robbery- movie-registers in the ceiling. They are 3" wide by the length of a standard ceiling acoustic tile. 5 across the area I was sitting, 7, 7, 9, 3 were the remaining sequences. 3 strobes, 9 motion sensors, etc.
But that was just being bored... nothing overly special (except the counts fall into my head, I don't have to physically count them)
True photographic memory, as the name implies, carries with it photographic detail. Detail you can 'push-in' on.
No worries tho mate... I rtfa and you too can have better memory -=)
And post 35298244 is a really good start for research. (lol, on the opposite side of the spectrum of having 'auto-counts' going on in my head... I for the life of me cannot remember number sequences anymore. I only had 4 out of 8 of those right, haha, so I'll be researching those links too.)
I've once seen a video where savant artist Stephen Wiltshire was taken for a 10 minute helicopter ride over London, and was able to draw images of the cityscape afterwards, down to individual windows of buildings. http://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/
So yes. Photographic memories are indeed different.
I think Ed Cooke's memory is as average as he claims. For example, I betcha he can't remember where my car keys are either.
If u rtfa... he still loses his car keys.
"What began as an exercise in participatory journalism became an obsession. True, what I hoped for before I started hadn’t come to pass: these techniques didn’t improve my underlying memory (the “hardware” of “Rhetorica ad Herennium”). I still lost my car keys. And I was hardly a fount of poetry. Even once I was able to squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I seldom memorized the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. It was easier to punch them into my cellphone. The techniques worked; I just didn’t always use them. Why bother when there’s paper, a computer or a cellphone to remember for you?"
There wasn't an update as to his ability to recollect where his car keys were, at the point where he became champion. =0)
But it is still many times easier then getting in your car, driving to Blockbuster, wandering around for an hour trying to decipher what "genre" your movie might be filed under, realizing that it didn't win an Oscar in the last 5 years so Blockbuster doesn't stock it
It would be even many times easier than that... Blockbuster doesn't exist here any more.
You're gonna be wandering more than an hr, I'll guarantee =)
So how EXACTLY is you magical Xeon cloud going to give me ANY advantage at all with an average 150kbps DSL connection being the norm here, hmmm? Am I supposed to tell all my customers "LOL call me when you spend $500 a month on a T connection LOL!"?
Valid points, but now you confuse me. How does your email help your situation? Aren't you limited by the same slow speeds? I must have missed something entirely.
I met many, many people like you in the early 90's shaking their canes at me, tellin me to get off their lawn, as I was trying to sell them on this new thing called the internet. And that they should buy their domains NOW before the land-rush when they won't be available anymore. "Stake out your presence on the internet, it's not going away... it's where all the commerce will eventually take place."
Oh, btw... I can tell alot about you from #1. I didn't tell you to make a website you ludd. In fact, since I said PRIVATE WEBSITE, that should have been an indicator as to the NATURE of the site. I said store it on a website. MUCH difference there.
And if you can't cough up $50 PER YEAR for hosting with a provider like 1and1 you need to get a better job. (No, I understand the difference between can't and won't) But won't(s) only excuse is lazy, scared, etc. Can't may have mitigating factors.
Being in the cloud is a HUGE advantage and just like 1993, there are going to be those that get it and those that will have great stories to tell their kids and friends (if they will listen) about how they missed out on the next big thing.
If there is a single nerd, geek, whathaveyou on/. that doesn't have some type of cloud account... turn in your badge...
... and you better look out your front window, I think someone is on your lawn. [for the ludds that use expense as an excuse... it's FREE for a t1.micro instance, that you can run in perpetuity for the entire year on EC2... did I say FREE?]
-AI
FWIW, EC2 is like having a FREE 2.66 GHz Xeon PC, with a (unfortunately paltry) half gig memory but 7 Gigs of drive storage... that you could hold in the palm of your hand. [For those of us that have smartphones.] Yeah, I know you can do that with your home PC, but you don't have to expose your home computer this way and that's not really the point anyway. The point is, it's a free box. A +1 to your collection. And you can access it just like any other computer you sit in front of (or access via some wireless device)
I ran a half million prime sieve on it... and I got every cycle promised. Loaded a rainbow in 'memory' and did some hash blasting. You can do heavy cracking of encryption from a cell phone.
EC2's been around for a long time. No excuses geeks.
SELECT A t1.micro INSTANCE! If you select another one, it won't be free but it won't cost an arm and a leg either. It's nice, you can scale up to a [pay] BIG iron box with multi CPUs, tons of RAM to test on, after you've made your distro and did dev on a free tier.
Set up the params, security and storage, and grab a snack or coffee (Takes like 2-3min).
Yes, I have multiple email accounts and one is set up simply to be a backup storage facility for things such as files and emails I may require access to out in the field, or want to make sure I don't lose like pictures or important correspondence.
You see that way my main email address is nice and neat, with only outstanding shipments of parts and currently open conversations in my inbox, whereas my bulk backup is currently at 500+ emails with everything from certain must have files I often find a need for out in the field (such as a reg file that fixes the dreaded "Windows has the sound driver but says "no device" under sound bug) and backups for any important emails sent from any of my addresses so if someone claims I never sent them something I can check by name and find a backup with the date/time stamp to back me up.
So in my case BCC makes it easier to manage multiple accounts while simultaneously giving me an easy backup of anything important just in case my main email provider were to have a "senior moment" like what happened to Hotmail users a few weeks back or Gmail users two years ago
This may be a whoosh... but why don't you just:
1) Upload them to your private website 2) Carry them on a usb drive?? I have like 3 hanging on my keychain, two more in the car. 3) Use Google Docs 4) Use any online backup service 5) Carry them on your phone's storage 6) Put them on a CD
Convenience as a factor? A mailbox filled with attachments sounds more like a nightmare scenario. Unless you use gmail, then it's all moot since all sentmail is saved and you'd have access to Google Docs.
Any file I'd need to get access to, naked (no electronics on me) are on either priv bucket or Google Docs. Drivers, charts, data. Images that I can burn to disc in the field.
Plus I have an instance on EC2 that I can fire up with just about anything else I'd need.
The likelihood of another (significant) loss of data by Gmail is just about as likely as they going bankrupt, [which would do it]. But it's also orders of magnitudes less likely to happen than any other schema you have. And orders of magnitude easier to manage.
This builds a pretty strong case to have a EC2 account and just keep a "small" linux vm running. Have it cron'd to kill itself every 12-24 hrs. Kinda like, this tape will self-destruct.
Then use that vm to access ur ENCRYPTED info on another cloud.
Even if they did compel u to turn over the account, all they would have is a dead process. And even if that process was resurrected, it would just have net access. And only a sloppy idiot would leave a trace of ur cloud storage access.
When they take ur boxen... nothing but Chrome installed on there. Chrome history... Amazon.
Does anyone else think this whole "cyber" thing has gotten out of hand? Someone needs to tell them that if they want to be taken seriously, they shouldn't use such a buzzword.
Uh k... here's your 15 min, got a better buzzword?
So... it's going to be a very long while before we can make a single computer anywhere near that powerful. Much less make it fit in a pocket.
Watson is a good demonstration of what modern software -- with the aid of an outrageous shitload of processing power, even by today's standards -- can do in the area of natural language processing. Nothing more. And even that has a long way to go.
A very long while? How old are you? I mean, I'm not "goin there" but my cell phone is more powerful than computers from the 90's AND it goes online too, faster than computers from the 90's. That was ~15 years ago. If, well I guess WHEN I have a [cell] phone/pocket appliance that is faster than my desktop right now, in 10-15 years... I am going to be just as amazed at the shrinking of processing power. (although the cloud will have probably won by then)
An outrageous shitload of processing power? Lol... that computer was TINY You did watch the same show, right? 10 racks. That's all... just 10. A small "pocket computer" by heavy iron standards. Barely gets it in the top 100. Gotta beat 31.2 TFlops to get in the top 500.
Of course in 2005, it would have been the 3rd fastest computer. But that was so 6+ years ago.
It's pretty obvious by how badly ORNL's Jaguar was passed that the peak flops barriers are falling. Especially with the use of GPGPU computing. A pretty effortless (appearing) jump of 44% considering the floor of the same list only jumped from 25Tfl to 32Tfl in 6 months, 28%. We're going to see the list stretch with the new breed of supercomputers coming out.
Keeping the same low-end growth level, that's 2 years by the time Watson won't even be considered a top 500 supercomputer. We know it's going to be MUCH sooner than that with all these entry-level GPU "boxes" coming in to play. It could easily be a year before Watson is no longer "fast".
I honestly can't believe the negativity I'm seeing in these posts against Watson. I mean, if it was a person, I'd say it sounds petty enough that it's almost shouting of jealousy? Maybe mixed with fear?
I think it's awesome how well Watson did. 'He' really did spank their asses on the 2nd day. I even felt like Brad kinda gave up near the end of day 2. No offense if you read this Brad, I mean, at least I saw Ken's arm or his shoulder jerk a few times on the 2nd day, lol.
Watson is much, much more than a "search engine" as one person said, lol. And THAT if anything is offensive to all the brilliant people that put time into this project.
I agree with what Ken put in his final jeopardy answer box. And I wouldn't mind seeing a weekly computer v human match ala jeopardy. Not only that, the game pace was smokin.
I liked old SUSE, it was one of the first distro flavors that I preferred over the stodgy (at that time) other players. Haven't tried newest.
My old job uses OpenSUSE which I was pretty much impressed with. (not the distro, the fact that my company used it). What was presented was a locked down environ that I didn't get to see too much of, til things went bad. At prompt... everything was pretty much like you'd expect.
So, did you just want to know if the *dm is pretty? =) cause the kernel and command set are relatively similar to everything else out there.
So don't be surprised if tomorrows "personal computers" are locked down like the PS3 and locked into a specific OS.
Thees guys are reeling at the fact that you can do whatever you want with your personal computer.
Yah know... don't be surprised if tomorrow's PC's, aren't.
I think we are going to be moving back to dumb terminals and thin client setups for the majority of "what PC's yoosta do". I obv realize specialty software will still need a box... but who knows? There may be an Adobe CS Cloud edition soon. Adobe apps running on a cloud that scales for the process you are running? That'd be the shizz. Full filter efx and massive graphic power on a small tablet?
On a recent project I 'forced' myself to hop on the cloud. And ya know, I like it more than hate it. Sure I could just constantly sync allll of my docs on my PC and phone and laptop and hope I don't forget when I leave the house... but having them remote, where ANY computer I hop on I can access them and start working again? Wow, big productivity boost. And especially since this project is collaborative with people in different states.
Yeah... I think the twilight has come for the big grey (black, white, red, etc) box under the desk.
Slashdot Mirror
I want gmail to offer an image system, where by you ask to download an image (zipped of course) of the current state of your email folders and configs and all contacts, into a nicely zipped file. Then you can restore or backup using the notion as in VSS, which makes it very easy to maintain backups for individuals, especially those that do not want to wait long hours to use something crappy like outlook to manage their backups of emails. Also it would solve the bulk upload/download situation...as it would be zipped.
Seconded... you hear this Googlies?
With an incremental option as well, so you only have
to DL the whole creampuff once.
And for the dozen, "Why don't you" replies that will follow...
because that's not what we are after. We aren't looking to
have a backup mail location as much as just having
a backup ala googleness.
-AI
Can't complain. We were all warned that it is a BETA product. That means things can go horribly wrong, and they warned us it wasn't really ready to be used yet.
Out of beta, July 7th, 2009... lol
It was on Slashdot.
Musta thought it was an idle story huh?
-AI
That's why I grow all my own food, generate my own electricity, and perform all my own medical care. Although I'm miserable focusing on all these tasks that others can perform more capably than me, it's a small price to pay in the very, very unlikely event of a catastrophe that destroys society but for some reason leaves me alive. That way, even with the failure of the "cloud" known as society, I'll be able to continue living my life the way I always have - miserably and without time for sleep, playing with my son, etc.
Lol, really? No one's gonna mod that funny as hell?
Sorry man, I got no points.
-AI
Way to hurt a fanboi's feelings...
feh
-AI
Well, just checked all of my accounts there, I was a lucky one.
I've asked myself this many times. As a storage analyst, everyone always uses "the cloud" as a buzz word to excite their managers into spending money.
In the end it's still business as usual. disk backend, FC switched SAN. Sure it may be on demand, but when does on demand end? When I upload 14TB of documents?
You really don't get it... it scales EASIER. Fault tolerance
is TRUE fault tolerance. When something breaks in the middle
of the night, you can fix it the next day cause at most maybe
you lost 20% cycles, all the data is still there, it's still available.
You come in the morning, replace the broken item, no one even
knew anything had happened.
The entire backend "cloud" has been commoditized. Sure it
runs much better on a bunch of blades or server optimized
equipment but you can use commodity stuff until that point!
Not sure what the 14TB of docs has to do with it?
Oh! Wait... you're one of those, that sees the word cloud and
thinks it only runs on magic on someone ELSE's servers.
No, that type of cloud is for SOHO and personal use. I'm talking
about the private corporate cloud. All your data is still yours,
it's still under your roof. You control it.
Resistance is futile you will be assimilated into the cloud.
-AI
MS Office and LibreOffice kill GDocs. Also Microsoft has made deals so Novell's OpenOffice and KOffice have better compatibility thant Google. Google just don't want to take responsibility.
Lol... hey... your pager is blowin up man!
Google Docs(type of offering) is the future. Being
constrained to one computer is the past.
Those that cite compatibility are ignorant to the fact
that if you START workflow on a new platform, the
compatibility isn't an issue.
Sure, lots of places have legacy office systems.
And lawyers and doctors used to be all paper. Who
but a fool would go to a doctor or lawyer now that
didn't do a majority of their stuff on a computer?
Exactly.
Same thing with the cloud, same thing with the
deconvergence [sic] of our connected, online and
storage devices. The cloud will be NECESSARY.
-AI
So I guess the article is just about promoting that book. Because Foer is not a memory athlete anymore.
(Not even in the worlds top100: http://memocamp.de/highscore?daten=wrl&type=gesamt)
Perhaps but... the article was interesting... it was sufficiently
geeky and while not "news" it was much better than some
of the stuff that slides out of idle onto here.
Book promotion? That's fair, it is about a subject that it seems
a good number of us are interested in. I will take that over some
of the stuff that gets posted, any day.
-AI
So, you see a girl whose name you don't remember...
Now you have to remember: is this the girl who is careening down an icy road, or is this the girl that has to breathe oxygen?
I don't see how adding an extra step in the process helps!?
They're not my friends and cause of the memory picture
he painted, I now know their names, Carice and Flo. And
let's not forget tall Lewis. Which I personally would have
associated with Carl Lewis... but picture memories are
personal... that's the idea.
You don't "get that"?
I'll probably remember their names for a while now.
Thanks alot, lol, like I got the room to spare.
-AI
I've tried techniques like mnemonics, visualising a story or creating associations. Unfortunately, I have a problem with that: I often can't remember the mnemomics themselves, or what the mnemonics stand for, or the story/associations.
Rtfa, that's what it's about..
Memory Palaces are where you store the mnemonic associations
thus creating a stronger visual inference plus a way to locate them
(loci method)
Read post, 35298244, many good links for research on there.
-AI
I believe I have a photographic memory, although I couldn't be sure, because I haven't had a different memory to be able to tell the difference.
What I can say with absolute certainty is that I can recall certain scenes which I have seen and somewhat visualise an image in my mind of that scene. I can't recall detail- I couldn't look at a book page and recall every word on the page, but I can walk down a street, and think back to that scene and say "Yeah, there was a red Ford Mondeo turning left, I was on the left hand footpath, there was a coop shop to my left, 1ft by 1ft square gray paving slabs, a girl crossing the road with a grey top and a pink pushchair, a blue Renault Clio parked up in front of me".
It's certainly not just a case of recalling what was in the scene but being able to visualise it and then pull information from that visualisation in my mind. This is why I presume I have a photographic memory.
Whether someone can train themselves in this way I've no idea, it's just something that's always been naturally possible to me.
Hate to burst your [memory] bubble. But that's as far from photographic
memory as that Mondeo is from being a Ferrari.
That's unfortunately... just average memory. I can recall every car and
type in the bank parking lot when I went this afternoon.
How many people were at the bank... what they were doing, what was
on that insidious TV in there, etc.
What I cannot tell you is... license plate numbers (if it was photographic,
I'd be listing those).
Can't tell you lipstick color of the tellers. I can tell you in detail about the
banker helping me... mainly cause she had atrocious taste in clothes and
jewelry and it made a big stinkin impression on my brain, lol.
Oddly enough (I have a strong 'counting' memory) I can tell you about
every feature of the ceiling in the second bank I went to. That banker
left for about 3 min... and I became intrigued with the anti-bank-robbery-
movie-registers in the ceiling. They are 3" wide by the length of a standard
ceiling acoustic tile. 5 across the area I was sitting, 7, 7, 9, 3 were the
remaining sequences. 3 strobes, 9 motion sensors, etc.
But that was just being bored... nothing overly special (except the counts
fall into my head, I don't have to physically count them)
True photographic memory, as the name implies, carries with it photographic
detail. Detail you can 'push-in' on.
No worries tho mate... I rtfa and you too can have better memory -=)
And post 35298244 is a really good start for research. (lol, on the opposite
side of the spectrum of having 'auto-counts' going on in my head... I for the
life of me cannot remember number sequences anymore. I only had 4 out of
8 of those right, haha, so I'll be researching those links too.)
-AI
I've once seen a video where savant artist Stephen Wiltshire was taken for a 10 minute helicopter ride over London, and was able to draw images of the cityscape afterwards, down to individual windows of buildings.
http://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/
So yes. Photographic memories are indeed different.
Cool link, thanks for sharing.
He's drawing Tokyo now... pretty neat.
[ http://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/Tokyo_Panorama_by_Stephen_Wiltshire.aspx ]
-AI
I think Ed Cooke's memory is as average as he claims. For example, I betcha he can't remember where my car keys are either.
If u rtfa... he still loses his car keys.
"What began as an exercise in participatory journalism became an obsession. True, what I hoped for before I started hadn’t come to pass: these techniques didn’t improve my underlying memory (the “hardware” of “Rhetorica ad Herennium”). I still lost my car keys. And I was hardly a fount of poetry. Even once I was able to squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I seldom memorized the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. It was easier to punch them into my cellphone. The techniques worked; I just didn’t always use them. Why bother when there’s paper, a computer or a cellphone to remember for you?"
There wasn't an update as to his ability to recollect
where his car keys were, at the point where he became
champion. =0)
-AI
But it is still many times easier then getting in your car, driving to Blockbuster, wandering around for an hour trying to decipher what "genre" your movie might be filed under, realizing that it didn't win an Oscar in the last 5 years so Blockbuster doesn't stock it
It would be even many times easier than that... Blockbuster doesn't exist here any more.
You're gonna be wandering more than an hr, I'll guarantee =)
-AI
I like a good hack as much as anyone but...
well I guess there really isn't a but, it's a hack, nice job.
-AI
I get the hacking thing but...
well I guess there isn't a but. Cool trick
-AI
I get the hacking thing but...
well, I guess there isn't a but. Cool trick.
-AI
So how EXACTLY is you magical Xeon cloud going to give me ANY advantage at all with an average 150kbps DSL connection being the norm here, hmmm? Am I supposed to tell all my customers "LOL call me when you spend $500 a month on a T connection LOL!"?
Valid points, but now you confuse me. How does your
email help your situation? Aren't you limited by the same
slow speeds? I must have missed something entirely.
-AI
I met many, many people like you in the early 90's
shaking their canes at me, tellin me to get off their
lawn, as I was trying to sell them on this new thing
called the internet. And that they should buy their
domains NOW before the land-rush when they won't
be available anymore. "Stake out your presence on
the internet, it's not going away... it's where all the
commerce will eventually take place."
Oh, btw... I can tell alot about you from #1. I didn't
tell you to make a website you ludd. In fact, since I
said PRIVATE WEBSITE, that should have been an
indicator as to the NATURE of the site. I said store it
on a website. MUCH difference there.
And if you can't cough up $50 PER YEAR for hosting
with a provider like 1and1 you need to get a better job.
(No, I understand the difference between can't and won't)
But won't(s) only excuse is lazy, scared, etc. Can't may
have mitigating factors.
Being in the cloud is a HUGE advantage and just
like 1993, there are going to be those that get it and
those that will have great stories to tell their kids and
friends (if they will listen) about how they missed out
on the next big thing.
If there is a single nerd, geek, whathaveyou on /. that
doesn't have some type of cloud account... turn in your
badge...
someone is on your lawn.
[for the ludds that use expense as an excuse...
it's FREE for a t1.micro instance, that you can run in
perpetuity for the entire year on EC2... did I say FREE?]
-AI
FWIW, EC2 is like having a FREE 2.66 GHz Xeon PC,
with a (unfortunately paltry) half gig memory but 7 Gigs
of drive storage... that you could hold in the palm of your
hand. [For those of us that have smartphones.] Yeah, I
know you can do that with your home PC, but you don't
have to expose your home computer this way and that's
not really the point anyway. The point is, it's a free box.
A +1 to your collection. And you can access it just like
any other computer you sit in front of (or access via
some wireless device)
I ran a half million prime sieve on it... and I got every
cycle promised. Loaded a rainbow in 'memory' and did
some hash blasting. You can do heavy cracking of
encryption from a cell phone.
EC2's been around for a long time. No excuses geeks.
EC2 is really simple. Get an Amazon account.
[ https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/registration/index.html ]
Then get the AWS account. Log in. Click on Launch
Instance. Click on the Community AMI's tab, select the
OS image of your choice. They have Linux AND Windows.
SELECT A t1.micro INSTANCE!
If you select another one, it won't be free but it won't cost
an arm and a leg either. It's nice, you can scale up to a
[pay] BIG iron box with multi CPUs, tons of RAM to test
on, after you've made your distro and did dev on a free tier.
Set up the params, security and storage, and grab a snack
or coffee (Takes like 2-3min).
Then log in... here's the LAMP I just assembled as a
test bed for a WordPress blog. Yeah, it's not exposed yet.
http://ec2-50-17-49-155.compute-1.amazonaws.com/
just has a hi world on it.
They have LAMP instances, but I put mine together
myself so I could test some install scripts.
Yes, I have multiple email accounts and one is set up simply to be a backup storage facility for things such as files and emails I may require access to out in the field, or want to make sure I don't lose like pictures or important correspondence.
You see that way my main email address is nice and neat, with only outstanding shipments of parts and currently open conversations in my inbox, whereas my bulk backup is currently at 500+ emails with everything from certain must have files I often find a need for out in the field (such as a reg file that fixes the dreaded "Windows has the sound driver but says "no device" under sound bug) and backups for any important emails sent from any of my addresses so if someone claims I never sent them something I can check by name and find a backup with the date/time stamp to back me up.
So in my case BCC makes it easier to manage multiple accounts while simultaneously giving me an easy backup of anything important just in case my main email provider were to have a "senior moment" like what happened to Hotmail users a few weeks back or Gmail users two years ago
This may be a whoosh... but why don't you just:
1) Upload them to your private website
2) Carry them on a usb drive?? I have like 3 hanging on my keychain, two more in the car.
3) Use Google Docs
4) Use any online backup service
5) Carry them on your phone's storage
6) Put them on a CD
Convenience as a factor?
A mailbox filled with attachments sounds more like a nightmare scenario.
Unless you use gmail, then it's all moot since all sentmail is saved and
you'd have access to Google Docs.
Any file I'd need to get access to, naked (no electronics on me) are on
either priv bucket or Google Docs. Drivers, charts, data. Images that I
can burn to disc in the field.
Plus I have an instance on EC2 that I can fire up with just about anything
else I'd need.
The likelihood of another (significant) loss of data by Gmail is just about
as likely as they going bankrupt, [which would do it]. But it's also orders
of magnitudes less likely to happen than any other schema you have.
And orders of magnitude easier to manage.
Embrace the cloud.
-AI
This builds a pretty strong case to have a EC2 account
and just keep a "small" linux vm running. Have it cron'd
to kill itself every 12-24 hrs. Kinda like, this tape will
self-destruct.
Then use that vm to access ur ENCRYPTED info on
another cloud.
Even if they did compel u to turn over the account, all
they would have is a dead process. And even if that
process was resurrected, it would just have net access.
And only a sloppy idiot would leave a trace of ur cloud
storage access.
When they take ur boxen... nothing but Chrome installed
on there. Chrome history... Amazon.
-AI
"Head is in the Cloud"
Does anyone else think this whole "cyber" thing has gotten out of hand? Someone needs to tell them that if they want to be taken seriously, they shouldn't use such a buzzword.
Uh k... here's your 15 min, got a better buzzword?
-AI
So... it's going to be a very long while before we can make a single computer anywhere near that powerful. Much less make it fit in a pocket.
Watson is a good demonstration of what modern software -- with the aid of an outrageous shitload of processing power, even by today's standards -- can do in the area of natural language processing. Nothing more. And even that has a long way to go.
A very long while? How old are you? I mean, I'm not "goin there" but my cell
phone is more powerful than computers from the 90's AND it goes online too,
faster than computers from the 90's. That was ~15 years ago. If, well I guess
WHEN I have a [cell] phone/pocket appliance that is faster than my desktop
right now, in 10-15 years... I am going to be just as amazed at the shrinking
of processing power. (although the cloud will have probably won by then)
An outrageous shitload of processing power? Lol... that computer was TINY
You did watch the same show, right? 10 racks. That's all... just 10. A small
"pocket computer" by heavy iron standards. Barely gets it in the top 100.
Gotta beat 31.2 TFlops to get in the top 500.
Of course in 2005, it would have been the 3rd fastest computer. But that was
so 6+ years ago.
It's pretty obvious by how badly ORNL's Jaguar was passed that the peak flops
barriers are falling. Especially with the use of GPGPU computing. A pretty
effortless (appearing) jump of 44% considering the floor of the same list only
jumped from 25Tfl to 32Tfl in 6 months, 28%. We're going to see the list stretch
with the new breed of supercomputers coming out.
Keeping the same low-end growth level, that's 2 years by the time Watson won't
even be considered a top 500 supercomputer. We know it's going to be MUCH
sooner than that with all these entry-level GPU "boxes" coming in to play. It
could easily be a year before Watson is no longer "fast".
I honestly can't believe the negativity I'm seeing in these posts against Watson.
I mean, if it was a person, I'd say it sounds petty enough that it's almost shouting
of jealousy? Maybe mixed with fear?
I think it's awesome how well Watson did. 'He' really did spank their asses on the
2nd day. I even felt like Brad kinda gave up near the end of day 2. No offense if
you read this Brad, I mean, at least I saw Ken's arm or his shoulder jerk a few
times on the 2nd day, lol.
Watson is much, much more than a "search engine" as one person said, lol.
And THAT if anything is offensive to all the brilliant people that put time into
this project.
I agree with what Ken put in his final jeopardy answer box. And I wouldn't mind
seeing a weekly computer v human match ala jeopardy. Not only that, the game
pace was smokin.
-AI
ahhh yes, apropos
Is Novell SUSE Linux good?
I liked old SUSE, it was one of the first distro flavors
that I preferred over the stodgy (at that time) other
players. Haven't tried newest.
My old job uses OpenSUSE which I was pretty much
impressed with. (not the distro, the fact that my company
used it). What was presented was a locked down environ
that I didn't get to see too much of, til things went bad.
At prompt... everything was pretty much like you'd expect.
So, did you just want to know if the *dm is pretty? =)
cause the kernel and command set are relatively similar
to everything else out there.
-AI
Boot from 16GB microSDHC
Hollow coins
inside
coin jar
Lol, where are the +1 Paranoid points when u need them? =)
-AI
So don't be surprised if tomorrows "personal computers" are locked down like the PS3 and locked into a specific OS.
Thees guys are reeling at the fact that you can do whatever you want with your personal computer.
Yah know... don't be surprised if tomorrow's PC's, aren't.
I think we are going to be moving back to dumb terminals and thin client setups for the majority of "what PC's yoosta do". I obv realize specialty software will still need a box... but who knows? There may be an Adobe CS Cloud edition soon. Adobe apps running on a cloud that scales for the process you are running? That'd be the shizz. Full filter efx and massive graphic power on a small tablet?
On a recent project I 'forced' myself to hop on the cloud. And ya know, I like it more than hate it. Sure I could just constantly sync allll of my docs on my PC and phone and laptop and hope I don't forget when I leave the house... but having them remote, where ANY computer I hop on I can access them and start working again? Wow, big productivity boost. And especially since this project is collaborative with people in different states.
Yeah... I think the twilight has come for the big grey (black, white, red, etc) box under the desk.
-AI