On 01/09/2009, at 3:18 PM, Nick Partridge wrote:

> That's a good idea, data will be cheap too. "Occasional dev box"  
> seems unlikely though. In my experience (which admittedly was 12  
> months ago), the latency to EC2 instances was too high to even edit  
> files in the console comfortably. We tried running up a head-less x- 
> session, it was horrible.

Not such a problem if you're running emacs with tramp - all the  
editing happens locally, with an scp when you save.

> Distribute it across RORO laptops :), I'll happily run a build agent  
> for some ruby/haskell fun.

Heh, it's tempting. Hubris is still a bit of a bitch to install,  
though - you need the Haskell Platform, GHC, and jhc, not to mention a  
heap of haskell libs.

oh. and apparently the vmware solution isn't one :/ illegal to run mac  
software on anything but a big shiny machine with a picture of fruit  
on it.

mark

> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Mark Wotton <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's true if you leave it on. I was thinking of using it as a  
> buildbot - the idea would be to come up with an image (EC2 ami file)  
> that automatically fetched the latest versions of the code it's  
> meant to test, ran the test suite, submitted the results somewhere,  
> and closed it down in an orderly fashion. That way, you probably  
> don't need to run it for more than an hour a day, which would bring  
> it down to $50 a year (or maybe $100 with a bigger instance).
>
> The other use case was as an occasional dev box, and I'd be using it  
> in a bursty way there too.
>
> I could always run VMware and a mac image, I suppose (with a legal  
> licence, naturally). It's a bit convoluted, but maybe unavoidable.
>
> mark
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> On 01/09/2009, at 2:13 PM, Nick Partridge wrote:
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>> You're probably better off grabbing a mac mini and using that.  
>> It'll come out about the same in cost (amazon is about $1000/yr for  
>> the smallest instance). Just need to have somewhere to plug in and  
>> leave on.
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>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Bodaniel Jeanes <[email protected]>  
>> wrote:
>> I highly doubt you will be able to get it working both from a  
>> technological standpoint and a legal one. That being said, if you  
>> figure it out -- do share!
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>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Mark Wotton <[email protected]>  
>> wrote:
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>> I imagine some of you guys must have looked into this before - I'd
>> like to set some buildbots up to make sure jhc and Hubris are under
>> continuous integration for Mac, and my laptop's not always online. Is
>> it possible to get a Mac image on EC2 without Steve Jobs' lawyers
>> hollowing you out and wearing you as an overcoat?
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