On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 01:26:41AM -0400, Joseph Apuzzo wrote: > The point was the "distributed" projects of replacing cloud services like > Facebook, Twitter, etc with "always on" 1w servers in the home. That was in > the article... I thought that the idea of replacing the "cloud" with many 1w > small servers could be a MHVLUG project thing. By distributing service(s) > across many locations and members, we could then have our own distributed > development platform. I guess it would only work on a massive scale ( 2,000 > - 1 Million ) not 12 modules
Ugh, what? No. That's ridiculous. These things are severely underpowered, severely short on space, and probably not all that reliable. Most upstream on DSL and Cable is severely limited. And running servers is most likely against the TOS of the provider. I can't imagine anything I'd want to run on a bunch of crappy little underpowered embedded systems. -m > > Joe > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Chris Knadle > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Sunday 28 March 2010 22:49:00 Joseph Apuzzo wrote: > > ... > > > The device in question can be found at http://www.openplug.org/ > > > > > > So my question is, how much interest is there in such a project/device? > > > > 1.2 GHz ARM Processor > > 512MB RAM > > 512MB Flash > > 1 USB2.0 port > > 1 Gigabit port > > > > Things this hardware is generally not optimized for: > > Web server > > Backup server > > Databases > > Email server > > Firewall > > > > Things I could see a box like this doing: > > Embedded web server applications > > DHCP server > > Webcam image capture/forwarding > > Print server > > Temperature or other sensor monitoring/forwarding > > * An "always on" SSH point, from which you can wake up other > > machines via Wake-On-Lan > > > > > > I see this as a special-purpose machine, similar to the Linksys NSLU2 boxes > > except with more RAM and Flash, and a faster processor. > > > > -- Chris > > > > -- > > > > Chris Knadle > > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > > Apr 7 - Nagios > > May 5 - Crack and LLVM > > Jun 2 - Android > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Apr 7 - Nagios > May 5 - Crack and LLVM > Jun 2 - Android -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <[email protected]> GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 A computer without microsoft is like a dog without bricks strapped to its head.
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