[arachne] Re: What is "cloud computing" ???
- From: "Eric S. Emerson" <wildrice5@xxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:13:17 -0800
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Hi Ron,
Well said. I agree with your view
of things. I had an account with the Greater
Detroit Freenet. I guess it was like a shell acct.
You logged on like a BBS and had menus but
it also provided Internet access with highspeed
Unix connection and e-mail and space for a web
page. It was small and only text based but it was
handy....untill it folded and everything one had on
it was gone. ALL GONE.....before I could download
anything I had there.
Eric
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:06:19 +1100 Ron Clarke <ariadne@xxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
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>
> Hi Folks,
>
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:11:07 -0500 (EST)
> "Sam Ewalt" <ewalt@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, December 11, 2008 9:35 pm, L.D. Best wrote:
> >
> > > Here's a teaser: Can 'low end' computers take advantage of "the
> cloud" ??
> > >
> > "The cloud" is a massive, expandable network of servers and
> > powerful computers that you can access as needed. There is no
> > need for massive computing power on your desktop if you can
> > access that power whenever and wherever you need it.
> >
> > Think dumb terminal and multi-user system with the applications
> > and data being stored and worked with remotely. The terminal
> > doesn't have to be all that powerful, just capable of displaying
> > the interface to the resources that reside elsewhere. The
> "elsewhere"
> > is expandable and gathers resources as needed.
> >
> > "The cloud" is an evolving idea. Early and perhaps primitive
> examples
> > would be things like Gmail and the Google applications. Who needs
> a
> > word processor on your own computer as long as you can access one?
> > You don't have to take it with you, it's already there. Many
> people
> > from many locations can all access and work on the same documents.
> > You can travel around the campus and around the world and still
> have
> > all your files and documents. You don't even know where your stuff
> > is physically. It no longer matters.
>
> Maybe not to you, but it matters to me.
>
> What is still fresh in my mind is the fire in a server farm in
> Dallas Texas. That server farm hosted web domains, including both of
> mine. I lost nothing, but others were not so lucky. My domains are
> now hosted in Sydney, Australia.
>
> Now, what if I had had my business records there as well ?
>
> > Keep extending this idea. Why does an enterprise need its own
> > servers as long as service is available?
>
> To ensure that all the important stuff is safe from mishap, and
> is backed up properly and regularly.
> And that my confidential stuff is not so vulnerable to either
> hackers (including government agencies) or corrupted server-farm
> employees.
>
> > Services don't need to reside in a location. They just need to
> > exist and be locatable. They can float through the cloud like
> > ideas float through our brains.
>
> If you want "cloud" functionality for Arachne - you already have
> it. Read the documents on "netdos".
> See: arachne\doc\netdos.htm for Michael Polak's original
> explanation.
>
> Not a lot of applications available yet, just proof of concept,
> but it DOES work.
> See: http://www.ausreg.com/netdos/netdos.htm
>
> If there are favourite single-executable DOS programs that anyone
> would like hosted in an "Arachne cloud", speak up ! Ya never know
> what is possible until ya try. :)
>
> Regards,
> Ron
>
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