Opinion
The new iPad hype
Jan 29th
What’s the issue really?
Oh noes, no camera? That’ll change I bet.
No flash? Win in my book!
No multitasking? Really, you wanna run more things, buy a computer.
Now, the speculation about version 2 makes me laugh, but really, aren’t we at version 3? In my office common area, I have version 1, and I’ll include a picture.
Back to the iPad – just sit back and see what really happens. We are 60-90 days out (minimum) before it hits the shelves, maybe a surprise will come. Like tether-ability! That’d be win.
And as promised…and yes, it still works, and is not for sale.
For those about to write..
UNIX Shell services, what’s the fuss?
Jan 21st
Wowzers, quite a little thread going on in a newsgroup, but really, what’s the big deal?
I think I know…
Not everyone uses the Internet for viewing web pages and downloading pr0nself-help videos and television shows. The Internet itself has become much easier for the layman to use, and with that, these historical services are no longer needed and support for them is harder and harder to come by.
In the past, most service providers (especially the ISPs that service residential users) used to offer some kind of UNIX shell for their paying clientele. Over time, the number of service providers has decreased, and of those that are left, the percentage of them that offer this type of environment has decreased by orders of magnitude. I’ll speculate on why further down this post.
UNIX shells are fascinating experiments in shared computing resources with a very long history.
Over Subscription vs Over Capacity – huh?
Jan 15th
Recently, a whole slew of tweets showed up across my feed dealing with the perceived and measured issues across multiple public cloud providers infrastructure.
Image via Wikipedia
One of the posts comes from Chris Hoff (this post in particular) that describes quite clearly what the differences are.
Service providers (anyone doing cloud services, virtualization, colocation, bandwidth, whatever) live upon the idea of over subscription. We make our revenue banking on the fact that not everyone needs their full allotment all the time.
With over subscription there is a chance of reaching a state of over capacity. Anyone using this business model needs to understand that they must be ready for it to happen. It isn’t an issue of ‘will’ but an issue of ‘when’. Good engineering can keep the ‘when’ at bay, virtually forever, and that is what you need to be prepared for.
Another recent posting via The Register (featuring @GeorgeReese) had some data dealing with network latency within the Amazon EC2 network. I don’t have any opinions about what was in this article, but it is something that is going to come up again and again as this new model of computing (for the masses) solidifies and grows up on the Internet.
Comments?
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How to re-blog?
Dec 5th
I am having a crisis. Nothing earth shattering…
I read different things sent to me via multiple avenues, from email to Twitter, and then I head off to read the actual content of those shortened URLs.
But how do I get that data to other people easily without cluttering up this blog? That’s my crisis and one I am trying to figure out.
I am a geek, I read geeky thing, though not all technical and not all necessarily SFW (if you don’t know what that means…whew).
So, how to do it without cluttering up what I hope to keep a clean and informative blog…that’s the problem I need to solve.
Comments welcome!
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FCC approves Net Neutrality Rules
Oct 23rd
You can find a ton of information all over, I’ll include links below for a few sites with commentary.
My comments are such…
I am VERY happy to see that something is going on to shake up the industry who seems hell bent on making the Internet not the Internet any further. The Internet is a collection of networks with data passing between them. It is not about having separate islands with explicit permission required to do X and Y or even to access Z. It is about cooperation and equality.
I am VERY sad to see that it is requiring government intervention to enforce a fair playing field for all networks and content/service providers. I’d have thought we were all adults, that pissing in the communal pool was considered bad form, that what is good for everyone is also good for business. I could be wrong.
I am not saying that these telecom companies need to give things away for free. I am not saying they should allow wonton abuse of their networks (based on reasonable definitions of abuse). I am saying that if I wish to use Skype (referenced in multiple articles) to call my friend, that I should be able to use Skype to call my friend. If I wish to use BitTorrent (the protocol, though I did the caps to give homage to the company) to move legal data around, I should be able to do so unhindered. If i want to watch television over the Comcast cable Internet network from NetFlix, then please, stay out of my way and don’t impose restrictions because you (Comcast) sell television service. (and let’s reference my old article on Comcast and the arbitrary byte caps)
Cheers FCC, sorry you had to be involved, hopefully once things are playing well you can remove your fingers and we people (businesses and consumers) can play in the park without supervision.
Boo on telecom companies who think they should control what I can and can not do or try to tell me what I can and can not access over my devices.
And the promised links:
- Wired: FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules, Now the Fight Begins
- FOXNews.com: FCC Approves Proposed Net Neutrality Rules
- seattlepi.com blog: FCC approves net neutrality rules
- San Francisco Chronicle: FCC approves draft net-neutrality rules
My google query is here.
