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Quote from: Hominid on October 03, 2011, 06:25:43 PM

Late nineties, by Sun and some others. The PC booted locally, but everything else came off the network.  I think it failed due to lack of standards, though I'm just guessing.

Yes I think I remember that now.

Quote from: Hominid on October 03, 2011, 06:25:43 PM

Ya, I see it going that way as well... although hardware is pretty darn cheap these days. My wife just got a new laptop for 500 clams, and a nifty little netbook for 150. (CND dollars). And, she got rid of eight inches of reference paperwork with a Kindle, cheap as well.

That's the basis we work on at the museum. Hardware is pretty cheap so we just build huge servers.

Quote from: Hominid on October 03, 2011, 06:25:43 PM

Another thought on cloud computing: when a lightning bolt takes out my Internet feed, how do I access anything?

Yeh it worries me how much hold Micro$oft, and Google or Apple would have on our lives if we follow them into this line of marketing. The museum doesn't use the cloud because of this.

Quote from: Hominid on October 03, 2011, 06:25:43 PM

I'll have to go to the drug store and actually buy the latest Playboy  ;-)

It's a long time since I bought one myself. Ah the internet.

"Cloud" has it's advantages in specific cases. I use Google contacts, which I sync to my iPhone. Edits/deletions/additions done on one updates the other. Great for when I get a new phone. Yes, I'm tied to Apple and Google, but they've provided a free, elegant, and convenient solution with no hidden agendas, other than keeping me as a customer.

The only reason I keep with Microsoft is Photoshop (being a photographer). Other than that, all my machines (4 at last count, including the laptop I'm on right now) are dual-boot with Ubuntu as the OS of choice.  I like open source, being a Unix guy... Ubuntu has some SERIOUS cloud technology, so if I was responsible for an IT department, I'd be all over it wherever it made sense. But again, that's business, not my own personal stuff...

Only reason I keep with M$ is gaming.

Problem with open source is the speed it keeps up with technology (slower due to the peer review nature of it's development cycles).

I like Linux and my toys pictured above have various flavours of Linux on them. I have modded my old x-box to that flavour of Linux. I wear a circuit board from the old memory stick (as a badge) I modded to be a USB converter, which led to a slightly embarrassing conversation with one of the M$ European directors a few months ago when I was at their office for a presentation. Whoops.

My job as a DBA mostly holds me to M$ SQL server, MySQL is too primitive compared to what I can do with M$ SQL 2k8. If the open source was comparable we would be using it (the cost savings alone make it more interesting), but MySQL needs so much other coding outside the product to make it even half comparable.

Quote from: meekon5 on October 03, 2011, 05:19:18 PM

Quote from: Hominid on October 03, 2011, 01:40:40 AM

And how does it get there? Gotta have the disk in the first place, right? Unless society moves to the whole Netflix paradigm. Then no-one will own anything digital, thanks to upcoming DRM legislation...

You wont have to own the disk, the cloud suppliers will own the hardware you will subscribe to resources, like you do with broadband, except the "machine" (your PC) will be a virtual machine, on their hardware.

We're doing this already at the museum, you get a box that sits  on your desk that plugs into the network (monitor, mouse, and keyboard, plug into it), the "PC" is a virtual image on a vast server in another place.

The films/music/book/game will be created on the cloud by someone else, and you rent time in the cloud to use it.

Fewer people will own hardware (except obsessive collectors like myself), your cerebrally implanted interface will deal with the transactions.

Another collection of mine:

2011-02-08 22.57.30 by meekon5, on Flickr

And yes that is a Mac in there second from left.

Dude, you have the makings of your own "Google" there. That's about how they started; Google's first setup...........

My problem is I'm an uber Geek.

I was seriously considering putting together a NAS (network area storage) on the basis of my 0.5 TB USB drive only cost me thirty nine quid. So I thought I could purchase a few and stick an adruino in as a controller.

See ICT is my obsession, my profession, and my hobby.

I used to use an RS232 breakout box to diagnose communication issues, but USB changed all that - it's a standard that has saved me a lot of troubleshooting time. I don't get what the adruino does... a programmable hub? 

Quote from: Hominid on October 04, 2011, 10:03:03 AM
I used to use an RS232 breakout box to diagnose communication issues, but USB changed all that - it's a standard that has saved me a lot of troubleshooting time. I don't get what the adruino does... a programmable hub?  

Ah rs232 those were the days. BNC daisy chained network cards.

I was going to use the aduino to make the network connection and manage the usb connections.

It's not a real NAS but a fudge using USB hubs.

What Meekon said......

QuoteAh rs232 those were the days. BNC daisy chained network cards.

I was going to use the aduino to make the network connection and manage the usb connections.

It's not a real NAS but a fudge using USB hubs.

What  I read.... "blah blah blah" 

Quote from: Caesar dude on October 04, 2011, 11:51:03 AM
What Meekon said......

QuoteAh rs232 those were the days. BNC daisy chained network cards.

I was going to use the aduino to make the network connection and manage the usb connections.

It's not a real NAS but a fudge using USB hubs.

What  I read.... "blah blah blah" 

I did see "Fudge"...I like fudge...chocolate peanut butter is one of my favorites, but pretty much any fudge will do as long as it's Good creamy fudge and not gritty...oh hell who am I kidding...I'll eat the gritty fudge too!

I'm a fellow fudge lover...I like fudge...I used to go to lot's of English fairs and things for my work and I met lots of fudge people....they make fudge with Devon clotted cream and it's soooooooooooo fudgey...

Nice one cck I will get some of that there fudge and send it to you...may have to wait till next summer though...

Peace fudgey dude.

Quote from: Caesar dude on October 04, 2011, 11:51:03 AM
What Meekon said......

QuoteAh rs232 those were the days. BNC daisy chained network cards.

I was going to use the aduino to make the network connection and manage the usb connections.

It's not a real NAS but a fudge using USB hubs.

What  I read.... "blah blah blah" 

Sorry Hominid it seems we're confusing the muggles.

Quote from: Caesar dude on October 04, 2011, 04:09:00 PM
I'm a fellow fudge lover...I like fudge...I used to go to lot's of English fairs and things for my work and I met lots of fudge people....they make fudge with Devon clotted cream and it's soooooooooooo fudgey...

Nice one cck I will get some of that there fudge and send it to you...may have to wait till next summer though...

Peace fudgey dude.

Oh yes Devon clotted cream fudge. Manna from heaven.

Just keep a defibrillator close by...

Wow...  This thread kinda took a hard left somewhere along the line.  To get back on topic for just a moment, anyone seen "Stick it"? 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430634/ 

It's pretty great.  JB is very Dudeist in it.  Oh and he's surrounded by some very um...  fit young women. 
All-in-all, very easy on the eye.  A feel-good story with something for everyone.