Sweet. Would this be developed in conjunction with Rigby? It seems like the sort of thing he'd be into.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:44 PM, silky <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:28 PM, David Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 18 February 2010 22:23, silky <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Now see what you need is a system that does automatic, on-demand, > > > mirroring over EC2 or GAE or some other such thing. Auto-akamai. Maybe > > > even a buy-in (sell-in) co-op akamai, where distributed hosts offer up > > > some of their bandwidth and intercept people heading to you on the > > > given path. Like some self-adjusting traffic system. Now, the details > > > are important so ... oh wait, I'm on the wrong mailing list. > > > > Before you do any of that you need a mechanism by which to predict that a > > half-moralising sermon/whinge about people using too much bandwidth to > > download bullcrap is going to go international. > > On that subject, I had an idea once where I'd write a program that > would randomly select a class from MSDN, select some random properties > and methods from it, document them, infer usage, and write it up as a > blog post accompanied by images. > > Then, the bot would occasionally post off-topic items, discussing > random items in twitters top 10 lists (perhaps). Eventually, someone > might nominate it for an MVP award, and ask it to present at a > conference, then I'd have to tell people that, infact, it was a > predictable entity that they had selected to present on a mundane > topic that anyone who had half the desire could research themselves in > 5 minutes ... > > ... > > Ah come on, it's almost friday. > > > > -- > > David Connors ([email protected]) > > Software Engineer > > Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com > > Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 > > 189 363 > > V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors > > Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact > > -- > silky(); > > http://www.mirios.com.au/ > http://island.mirios.com.au/t/rigby+random+20 > -- Michael M. Minutillo Indiscriminate Information Sponge Blog: http://wolfbyte-net.blogspot.com
