Masi et son trou d’eau
Sony A100, 1/125 sec, f/2.8, 50mm, iso 100
Masi et son trou d’eau
Sony A100, 1/125 sec, f/2.8, 50mm, iso 100
Sony A100 - 50mm, f/2, iso 400, ev 0+, 1/40sec
Quick snapshot of a newspaper @ diefenbunker, located in Ottawa. It was located on one of the executive desk, by level 3.
Interesting facts, the paper say : Wednesday, October 30, 1963, “The TDrugGram”, and “Toronto”…
SynergyFS,
by Keun Soo Yim from Samsung @ Ottawa Linux Symposium
Ok, that was a flop :
- We get it - solid state drive (SSD) are faster, have a smaller energy footprint than hard disk drive (HDD). With a general engineering background most of the group knew already that there is no moving part… No need to show us a 10 minutes video of windows vista booting, of people sitting in a plane, of trying to break a laptop… This time would have been better spent giving out actual technical detail about the file-system.
- Question: “Can we see what SynergyFS look like, how it fare in benchmark”, answer: “not without signing NDA”.
- Question: “Is the source available for SynergyFS”, answer: “no, GPL really is a bad idea for a business, you could distribute our code afterward”.
… yeah, well… that was a waste of my time.
I’ve been informed that I forgot to post the link for the conference proceedings…
Here we go : Linux Symposium 2008 @ Ottawa, proceedings.
Cloud Computing: Coming out of the Fog
By Gerrit Huizenga, from IBM @ Ottawa Linux Symposium
Its very strange to hear a talk about cloud computing from an IBM employee since they have not yet shown any serious stats about their Blue Cloud system. Still, it’s a good review of the cloud computing field.
Despite the fact that the presentation is built upon the statement that cloud computing isn’t about servers provisioning, it clearly revolve around the two following points of views:
From outside of the cloud :
You want your applications (complex systems) to be deployed fast, with next to no configurations to be done. 3Tera system is shown as a “good” way of doing that - personally, having built something similar for a client, Amazon EC2 is also a good contender for the title. From my POV, this is really about provisioning and the capacity of building virtual appliance.
From inside of the cloud :
You want to have a fully (automatic, dynamically) managed data center. Technology is already there. This is ALL about server provisioning.
The presentation moved from this “reviewing definition” to “why it is presently not everywhere” and “how to build a general interface for cloud system”. Guess this speaker is reading the cloud computing mailing list at Google Group since those are hot subjects right now.
As a closure (this wasn’t mentioned in the presentation) : here is a quick stock index of related corporation.