Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/23
When one of my DevOps friends asks: Was ist Cloud?.
Kristian Köhntopp even published it as a SlideShare deck with transcript: Was ist Cloud?.
There is even a video: Froscon “Was ist Cloud?” – Video.
Thanks a million, Kris, this is very much worth reading for anybody doing Ops, Dev or DevOps.
There is even a
If you can’t read German: tough luck (;
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/07
Blast from the past: the digital highway as imagined circa 1995 (thanks Kristian Köhntopp for sharing this a while ago).
Learned a new phrase too (handfeste Datenträger) for something a marching band friend of mine was involved in: before he suddenly passed away at 39 he was a “high bandwidth courier” giving meaning to the phrase by Tanenbaum “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway” by driving around magnetic tapes and optical media between various locations for about 600+ km a day.
Who could imagine in the age where ISDN at home (@ 64 kibit/s) was fast, that 20 years later you could have fiber (@ 500 Mibit/s) at home both for like EUR 50/month.
Like Steve Streeting posted: having high bandwidth (relative to the time you live in) makes you stop thinking about your internet speed
It allows you to find new usage patterns. Which is good for imagination, work, etc.
–jeroen
PS:
I lied a little. EUR 50/month is for the subscription only. Nowadays that means a permanent connection. In the ISDN days having a permanent connection to an ISP would set you down another EUR 50/month for the ISP, and about EUR 600/month of data usage to the telecom provider.
I did that for a couple of years until cable and ADSL became available. Why? Because it was the fastest way to stay informed (gopher, newsgroups, mailing lists, early forums and web-sites) and get the latest software (mainly over FTP).
Imagine this was only years after not even HCC being able to sustain the costs of a Fidonet transatlantic link, and now two decades later. I’ve posted about Fidonet before, and back-then it was the most affordable way to access information from across the world.
Now less than a century after the first transatlantic phone service was established in 1927, world wide communication is almost free (and there is even internet in space).
PPS:
Swets – where my friend worked for filed for bankruptcy last year. No more high bandwidth couriers…
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/10/12
While solving a problem with Windows 7 machines not being able to ping the machines on the GREEN LAN of an Endian when connecting through OpenVPN, but XP machines could, I did a few upgrades, then went on to solve the problem.
Then I went on solving the issue, which I suspected was a kind of routing problem. Read the rest of this entry »
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