Posts by jonathan

What's an open cloud? The Manifesto's not telling

How about...

How about companies like FlexiScale, GoGrid, AWS - the infrastructure providers in short, correlate their APIs to be compatible? If the compute resources simply appear as dedicated servers and all provide the same OS (CentOS for example), then matching APIs mean that you have the open movement everyone is looking for...

Paris, cuz she "likes" everyone, much like the open cloud...

Utility computing's 'dirty little secret'

linky

article forgot linky: http://flexiscale.com

Brought to you by the sales drones of XCalibre Communications, purveyors of Flexiscale to the masses :)

http://xcalibre.co.uk

Paris? Cuz I'd like to visit it someday...

Download al Qaeda manuals from the DoJ, go to prison?

I'd like to say this is unbelievable,

but how many rules and regulation remain in effect from war times that intrude on our right to privacy and freedom of speech until well after the threat has disappeared?

paris, because she's french.

Activist coders aim to deafen Phorm with white noise

as per UKNOT

"honest g'vnor, I wasn't browsing for child porn - I was just trying to obfuscate my browsing habits from Phorm. The process was automated and not under my control..."

Paris?? Because, well, you know you'd hit that... maybe with a stick?

World wants small, cheap PCs, say makers of small, cheap PCs

world+dog+me too

1. I just bought mini itx components for a home made low powered NAS for £60 (del incl) off ebay - not wanting to spend £200 on the same... So I want a small cheap pc too (would make 4th pc, but who's counting?)

2. Now if the eepc didn't have those bloody speakers and had a bigger display instead it would be a lot more interesting to me

my £0.02 have been spent :(