[1st-mile-nm] [FRIAM] Kicking the Internet up a notch

[Bob Knight]

Am I missing something or does this dovetail nicely with something like 
LTSP or Sun Rays?

For various reasons, I am very enamored of thin clients: if you have 
access to bandwidth via 3g, wireless or wire, they give you the ability 
to move your workspace with you without carrying your actual bits.

Why is this good? What happens if your laptop or computers at home get 
ripped off? Massive ID theft? Perhaps not, if you're fastidious about 
using things like encryption. If you're not doing heavy gaming or 
graphics, they are lightweight enough bandwidth-wise so that things are 
not too annoying.

Couple them with what Owen's talking about and ... you don't have to 
have a roomful of confusers at home, you have great bandwidth to your 
computing and someone else is worrying about security and HVAC.

Or is this completely tangential?

FWIW.

Bob


Owen Densmore wrote:
> Finally!  This is a good intro to what Don and I have been working on  
> the last couple of weeks.  The network is the computer .. wait .. Sun?
>
> Here's step one, the cloud:
>    http://www.joyent.com/accelerator
> Basically we're tracing the newest "hosting" technologies, and believe  
> me, they are changing at light speed.
>
> Cloud computing is a brilliant combination of hardware/server  
> advancement .. where small fractions of a "blade" can have its own IP  
> address, to software that "virtualizes" these fractions into dozens of  
> "sites".  And when I say "virtualize", I DEFINITELY do NOT mean VMWare  
> or Parallels.  I mean a fascinating combination of DNS stunts with  
> name-based sub-servers on every "site".  And yes, these services offer  
> clustered systems so you can go from a fraction of a server to  
> multiple servers.
>
> Basically Torrents are going to replace streams, and Virtual Servers  
> are going to replace hosting services as we once knew them.  Currently  
> the torrent part is weakest, but we believe we'll see "torrent url's"  
> soon .. stunts where the torrent technology will not be limited to  
> file sharing, but will be a "transport" for any layer in the Internet.
>
> To be specific, Don and I have an architecture for hosting that  
> includes two "computers" .. one the typical shared hosting service ..  
> but with GREAT programmer oriented services, an the other a dedicated  
> fraction of a "blade" (with root access).. which bursts up to the full  
> blade, or can advance to clustered.
>
> Managing this is a "DNS Management Service" .. yet another web hosting  
> service that lets some of the requests for our domain go to the shared  
> system, and others to the shared .. i.e. a form of load balancing.   
> And for storage, the service has a Network Storage System (Joyent  
> Bingo Disks) that is completely scalable, and on a 100Mb pipe.  All  
> facilities interoperable.
>
> Managing all this is a fantastic web based administration package  
> called Virtualmin .. virtual computing administration.  And we can  
> move our Virtualmin system from Joyent to Amazon (S3/EC2) in a day,  
> with Virtualmin's migration facilities.
>
> Its not your father's internet any more!
>
> See these:
>    http://www.joyent.com/
>    http://www.virtualmin.com/
>    https://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/
>
> So Tom, the answer to:
>   
>> Let's see now: what are the odds we in New Mexico -- hell, in the  
>> U.S. --
>> will ever see a fraction of this in our home?
>>     
> .. is very high if we in The Complex decide to work on this.  The  
> pieces are in place.
>
>     -- Owen
>
>
> On Apr 6, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
>
>   
>> Let's see now: what are the odds we in New Mexico -- hell, in the  
>> U.S. --
>> will ever see a fraction of this in our home?
>>
>> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3689881.ece?print=yes&randnum=1207538948023---
>>
>> -- tj
>>
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