Comments for gpoul's Out Of Memory Blog

Comment on Nexus One by Herbert Poul

Herbert Poul — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:27:45 +0000

yeah, $520 is way too cheap 750 euro is the minimum! http://geizhals.at/a437861.html

Comment on A few toys by earl

earl — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:47:32 +0000

irssi: nice, i’m still thinking about switching all IM over to IRC as well, using something like bitlbee. irssi would then be my client of choice.

vimperator: tried it a few times, but couldn’t get the hang of it. search as you type plus the standard firefox shortcuts seem to cover 95% of my keyboard browsing needs.

Comment on A few toys by Herbert Poul

Herbert Poul — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:37:52 +0000

How bored are you anyway? i had to find a good emacs for mac after macports.org completely messed up my system and i had to remove it altogether :) – and fink had errors installing ‘emacs23-app’ grrrrr…
anyway .. for now i’m stuck with http://emacsformacosx.com/ but tried out aquamacs as well.. (aquamacs just felt awfully slow). so if you are bored find a useful mac!! the best would be one which supports the desktop mode.. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Saving-Emacs-Sessions.html .. i want to have one emacs button in my tray for every project.. and when i click on it it should load my desktop for that project with all files i had opened previously :)

hmm.. thinking again.. maybe i should simply create virtualbox instances – one for every project.. :) i would never need to close browsers, editors, terminals, etc. .. sounds like too much work though :( (and also sounds slow as hell)

Comment on Cloud Computing by gpoul

gpoul — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:55:18 +0000

@wnagele: Interesting distinction there. I was not making a difference whether a company uses the cloud or not. For me the companies I entrust my data to over the Internet, like Flickr, Facebook, or Google Picasa, for all intents and purposes are the cloud.

I get the feeling that I not only have no answers to this, but also that my questions weren’t really unambiguous either. sorry for that.

Comment on Cloud Computing by wnagele

wnagele — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:46:20 +0000

i really don’t see the difference in trusting a company using “the cloud” or a company not doing so. you couldn’t know what they were doing before neither can you know after … simple as that.

Comment on Cloud Computing by gpoul

gpoul — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:16:50 +0000

@wnagele: wrong thought… I’m not afraid of companies losing their data; I’m afraid of average people losing their data in the cloud.

Think of your photos… you might have them on flickr, facebook, your own web page, and many more services. Basically very dispersed over the cloud. As it gets more distributed and time passes chances increase that you’ll lose data.

Comment on Cloud Computing by wnagele

wnagele — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:42:18 +0000

which average people do you give your data to that you would be afraid to loose? i am having a hard time thinking of such a case …

Comment on Cloud Computing by gpoul

gpoul — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:10:58 +0000

@wnagele: I was more thinking about average people. Companies have a long history of doing backups and saveguarding their data. And yes, there is an app for that from IBM ;-) – But I am a little more concerned about someone losing my data :-)

Comment on Cloud Computing by wnagele

wnagele — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:38:28 +0000

fear mongering? if anything it makes the one thing that you should think about in any business more obvious: backup strategies and there are plenty of them. if for example you’re relying on backups only and don’t plan for the complete failure of your cloud provider … well bummer, it’s like putting all your money to IBM. :P

Comment on Google Public DNS by wnagele

wnagele — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:54:41 +0000

jup … but that’s all about definition of frequently and the user base of the cache