Re: "Cloud Computing" Smears (Was: Google Wave)

2009-10-25 Thread Deborah Harrell
> On Mon, 10/19/09, John Williams wrote: > >> Never underestimate the power of human error. As this > >> debacle demonstrates. > > (me, IIRC) Which particular debacle would that be? > I was referring to the Sidekick debacle: > http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Microsoft-Claims-Side

Re: "Cloud Computing" Smears (Was: Google Wave)

2009-10-19 Thread John Williams
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Deborah Harrell wrote: >> From: John Williams > > >> Never underestimate the power of human error. As this >> debacle demonstrates. > > Which particular debacle would that be? I was referring to the Sidekick debacle: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireles

Re: "Cloud Computing" Smears (Was: Google Wave)

2009-10-19 Thread Deborah Harrell
> From: John Williams > Never underestimate the power of human error. As this > debacle demonstrates. Which particular debacle would that be? We gotcher health care, Afghanistan, Eyerak, and balloon boys... Take yer pik! Debbi Whaddya Expect From A Family On "Wife-Swap" Twice? Maru

RE: "Cloud Computing" Smears (Was: Google Wave)

2009-10-19 Thread Jo Anne
Julia wrote: > (Jo Anne -- a RAID is a Redundant Array of Independent Disks, where the data > is stored on multiple disks and checked for accuracy on some regular basis. > If one drive goes down, either the data should be duplicated somewhere, or > there should be enough information stored on anot

Re: "Cloud Computing" Smears (Was: Google Wave)

2009-10-18 Thread John Williams
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Bruce Bostwick wrote: > > On Oct 18, 2009, at 12:25 AM, Max Battcher wrote: > >> On 10/18/2009 0:38, John Williams wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Julia Thompson  wrote: Er.  In that sort of a situation, I myself would set up a RAID for >>

Re: "Cloud Computing" Smears (Was: Google Wave)

2009-10-18 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Oct 18, 2009, at 12:25 AM, Max Battcher wrote: On 10/18/2009 0:38, John Williams wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: Er. In that sort of a situation, I myself would set up a RAID for storing the data, *much* less chance for losing it. RAID does not protect

Re: "Cloud Computing" Smears (Was: Google Wave)

2009-10-17 Thread Max Battcher
On 10/18/2009 0:38, John Williams wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: Er. In that sort of a situation, I myself would set up a RAID for storing the data, *much* less chance for losing it. RAID does not protect from rm -rf / , which (some variant of) is my guess at w

Re: "Cloud Computing" Smears (Was: Google Wave)

2009-10-17 Thread John Williams
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: > Er.  In that sort of a situation, I myself would set up a RAID for storing > the data, *much* less chance for losing it. RAID does not protect from rm -rf / , which (some variant of) is my guess at what happened. Although now they are sayin

RE: "Cloud Computing" Smears (Was: Google Wave)

2009-10-17 Thread Julia Thompson
Er. In that sort of a situation, I myself would set up a RAID for storing the data, *much* less chance for losing it. I'd just do that anyway. In fact, the computer that's still in a box and is destined to replace the one I'm using right now has a RAID, because I seem to have a knack for catastr

"Cloud Computing" Smears (Was: Google Wave)

2009-10-15 Thread Max Battcher
Bruce Bostwick wrote: Part of my concern with the concept in general is the fairly glaring admin/management deficiency described in this article: http://dailyqi.com/?p=10576 I've been avoiding most articles on this subject because there is a lot of FUD out there and very little real truth. S